project goals
To involve young people aged 13–18 in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education. The project’s priority was to promote gender equality in the access to education by encouraging girls to choose the profession of a researcher and build their future careers in STEM disciplines. Hypatia provided expert guidance to science centres, museums, schools, research institutes and companies to help them communicate their offer to teenage girls. Various organisations collaborated at a national and European level to co-organise activities and events.
Hypatia joined forces with “Expect Everything”, a campaign continuing the European Commission programme “Science: It’s a Girl Thing” by encouraging young people to develop scientific interests in STEM.
actions
Tests, promotional seminars, events involving teachers and youth
results
- A network of cooperation between teachers, lecturers, scientists, experts and innovative companies involved in STEM
- Promotion of ready-made toolkits of STEM activity scenarios designed by science centres for industry, science centres and schools and tested by teenagers from different countries
- expecteverything.eu – a mobile website inviting young people to participate in events and activities in 14 member countries
financed by: The project received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (H2020-GERI-2014-1) under grant agreement no. 665566.
duration: 09.2015–08.2018
members: science centres and museums in Austria, Germany, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
more about the project www.expecteverything.eu; www.hypatiaproject.eu