Addressing the Gender Gap in Computer Science Susan McKeever Ayesha O’Reilly TU Dublin Abstract In the context of the W-STEM [1-15] ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP), the W-STEM Chile International Conference was held on 19-20 April 2022 in Valparaíso (Chile), hosted by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, after more than two years working virtually on the global COVID-19 pandemic [16-18]. The keynote by Susan McKeever and Ayesha O’Reilly, researchers of the TU Dublin, was devoted to address the gender gap in computer science in their institution. Keywords Women, Science, CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM, Latin-America; Gender Gap in Computer Science Link to the presentation https://zenodo.org/record/6510115 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.6510115 Recommended citation S. McKeever and A. 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