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Google Europe Scholarship for Students with Disabilities - Deadline 20 January 2011
Google is committed to helping the innovators of the future make the most of their talents by providing scholarships and networking retreats for computer science students with disabilities
Increase of Women in Key Positions at the Faculty of Information Technology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim
- Department for Telematics hires 100% of women in all the new PhD positions autumn 2010. - Dr.Birgit R. Krogstie had three female professors in the defense committee when disputing her thesis.
A call for binding measures - Interview with Luisa Prista, Commission DG Research's Head of Unit
The goal is goal is to mobilize the Member States to care about gender equality in research.
Awards - Competitions - Scholarships
Two PhD students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich among the winners of this years Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Award 2010
Christina Pöpper and Andrea Francke won this year's Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship award 2010 and Anna Katarzyna Zych and Viviana Petrescu...
DoC academic receives £1.5M grant to study back pain
The project team led by Dr.Maja Pantic will design and develop an intelligent system that will enable ubiquitous monitoring and assessment of...
Oracle's Think Quest International Competition 2011 coming soon!
Since 1996 over 7,000 websites have been created by students around the world who have participated in Oracle's ThinkQuest Competition in 12...
Commissioner Neelie Kroes winner of the Aletta Jacobs Award & Female Internet Heroe of the Month
Highlights of the acceptance speech of Commissioner Neelie Kroes
e-Skills Prize for Employability and Vocational Training to Portugal
The winner of the 1st e-skills Prize for Employability and Vocational Training, sponsored by European Employability Alliance, EEA is Augusto Lima from...
Competitiveness and Economic growth
3 G Summit - The Future of Girls, Gaming and Gender
The 3G Summit a visionary 4-day initiative that convenes 50 urban teenage girls with five leading women game designers and scholars for intensive...
Gender-equality is an economic necessity - Spanish EU Presidency Conference adopts Gender Equality Declaration
SheLeader 2.0 the high-level Spanish EU-Presidency conference of female directors organized by the Government of Catalonia the 10 - 11 June 2010 in...
Europe's Digital Competitiveness Report 2010
The report shows that the digital economy is growing in strength, spreading throughout all sectors and reaching throughout all areas of our lives. ...
WEF Gender Gap Report 2009
Iceland and the other Nordic countries lead the WEF Global Gender Gap Index Report 2009
Education and Training
ditact_women 's IT summer studies 2010
The summer IT course by women for women is a real success story in Austria.
Roberta - girls discover robots in Italy
The School of Robocs - Roberta’s European Regional Centre in Italy presents its activity in Torino during the thre days Girls discover Robots fair.
The future in your hands: watch Conchitas dream!
Btw 12-14 and making your life's choice? The Spanish Electronics, InformationTechnology and Telecommuni-cations Industries and e-Skills Info Spot...
Roberta and Scuola di Robotica selected as best practice at Campus Party 2010
For four days 800 young people from Europe participated in Campus Europe 2010 in Madrid. Scuola du Robotica from Piemonte was selected as oen of the...
Girls Day 2010 in Germany under the patronage of Chancellor Angela Merkel
The 10th anniversary of Girl's Day in Germany will be celebrated with Chancellor Angela Merkel's support for the career guidance initiative.
Entrepreneurship
Queen Honours Enterprising Women Founder Bev Hurley
Bev Hurley, founder of the UK Enterprising Women's Network receives the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion.
Focus on women's entrepreneurship and women in technology in Catalonia
The high-level conference organized by Barcelona Chamber of Commerce the 29th of April highlighted the role and voice of women in the economic and...
3rd Edition of Gamma Donna in Torino
The 3rd Edition of Gamma Donna to promote female entrepreneurship in Piemonte on 28-29 January 2010
Growing opportunities and challenges for Italian women in ICT
There are more than 31.300 enterprises run by women in the ICT sector in Italy and female businesses in ICT have sustained their position in the last...
Digital literacy, skills and inclusion
Recommendations for actions towards optimising the ICT skills of immigrants
The skills of women and men with migrant backgrounds in particular in the fields of IT-technologies and multi-functional media such as PC, Internet...
UK e-Skills Manifesto
Major employers in the UK have set out their recommendations on how to e-skill the workforce to create sustainable economic growth
e-Skills Week France - Talents of Digital France 2010
Key e-skills stakeholders in France urge for speeding up collaborative actions. New Honorary Excellencia Award 2010 laurate Claudie Haignere stressing...
Futuralia 2010 Portugal: Launch of the Lisbon Learning Working Group and the e-Skills Charter
Education-Training-Employment attracts in Portugal and e-Skills stakeholders were all represented to join a Portuguese National Platform for the...
From the e-Skills ILB to the European e-Skills Association (EeSA)
The EeSA launch announcement was held on the occasion of e-Skills Week at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on 2 March 2010. The creation of the European...
Global initiatives for Women and Technology
EeSA endorses the European Directory for Women and ICT (EUD)
The European e-Skills Association has decided to endorse the EUD launched by the European Commision the 8th of October 2009 as a key meetingplace for...
'TechWomen and Women Entrepreneurship - a focus of US foreign policy'
The US State Department launches 3 initiatives to support women's entrepreneurship and involvement in the knowledge economy recognizing the value of...
12 New Commitments to Empower Girls and Women at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
Together we can do more! Since 2005 members of the CGI have made more than 1400 commitments valued at 46 billion USD in more than 170 countries...
ICT policy and strategy
Spain to show the way also in eEquality!
The 4th major event under the Spanish EU Presidency focussing on experiences of implementation of the 'Plan of Action for Equality between Women and...
The Women and ICT issue in the Parliament Magazine
Women must be encouraged to take up technology based careers if Europe is to have any chance of reducing the skills gapin the sector, writes Jan...
A Digital Agenda for Europe approved
The Digital Agenda adopted by European Commission the 19 May 2010 outlines seven priority areas for action and foresees some 100 follow-up actions, of...
Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
The Europe 2020 strategy adopted the 26 March 2010 sets out a vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century based on 5 headline...
A Green Knowledge Society - A European ICT policy agenda to 2015
The report "A Green Knowledge Society - An ICT policy agenda to 2015 for Europe’s future knowledge society will be a foundation for discussions at a...
IS activities and projects
Innovative Career Development Support for Women Returners in Europe
EU Return the LLP financed project hosts its final conference in Bucharest to showcase its successful results of transferring the new career...
eGEN - Women on board in ICT, technology and innovation - ICT 2010
The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) and its members are invited to organize both an exhibition and a networking session at the...
Don't think it's only entertainment!
A unique opportunity for discussions for TV- and film makers, for members of the media and broadcasting industry, for experts in the fields of STEM...
GENDER-IT looking for role models - Tell yor ICT story!
Share your first hand experiences on the benefits and problems of working in the ICT field as a woman and become a role model encouraging other women...
SmartEN -ITN - Smart management for sustainable human environment
A 3.7 million Euros project launched 23 April by EU Commissioner for Education and Culture Mrs Androulla Vassiliou and H.E. Mr. Demitris Christofias,...
Multimedia and digital content
Commissioner Kroes: Social media means talking with Europeans
Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioer of the Digital Agenda reveals the importance she attaches to social media and and her use of these tools
Research
Alexandra Millonig FEMTech expert of the month - 6 years with FEMTech in Austria
FEMTech in Austria is one of the leading European public stakeholders for support to companies and non-university research institutes to increase the...
Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science on US visit
Tapping research and innovation for jobs and growth: and strengthening EU-US cooperation in research, innovation and science are key priorities of...
Tim Berners Lee, Nigel Shadbolt and Wendy Hall in new institute for web science
The Institute will help place the UK at the cutting edge of research on the Semantic Web and other emerging web and internet technologies and ensure...
Dame Wendy Hall on the Semantic Web Revolution and the emerging solutions for 2010
In this conversation with Dame Wendy Hall, the approaching step-change evolution that Semantic Web technologies, specifically Linked Data, will bring...
MIT President Susan Hockfield visiting Portugal 24-26th of November
The MIT-Portugal program has a devoted relevance in performing dynamic partnership processes between universities and research centers, in the...
Workforce and Employment
Professor Jennifer Hunt on Why do American women leave science and engineering?
American women leave science and engineering at a higher frequency than men. This column suggests that the gender gap is explained by women’s relative...
Immigrant women, e-skills and employability
Access to IT is critical to improving social and economic status and finding a job - study among 530 immigrant women in Hungary, Italy, the...
Sasha Bezuhanova, Hewlett-Packard's public administration director CEE receives LeaderSHE Award 2010
Sasha Bezuhanova is ranked among the most influential women in the region responsible for the business of Hewlett-Packard in 27 countries from...
Dr.Angelika Damman's Appointment Supports Transformation to Employee-Focused Culture and Marks First Female Serving on SAP Executive Board
Following an extraordinary meeting of the SAP Supervisory Board, SAP AG(NYSE: SAP) announces the appointment of Dr. Angelika Dammann as the company's...
New Accenture report: Women Leaders and Resilience - Perspectives from the C-Suite
Accenture surveyed more than 500 senior executives of mid- to large-size companies in 20 countries across Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin...
Innovation and patents
The gender dimension of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
The special edition compiled by the two prominent international scholars Marina Ranga and Henry Etzkowitz gives you great holidays' reading and...
Creating innovative enterprise search applications
This Webinar will explore how a combination of recent advances in tools and approaches can enable a new vision and reality for search. You will...
Gender and Innovation key issue of the Stuttgart Regional Innovation and Competitiveness Conference
A high-level conference marked the 20th anniversary of Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, the leading regional innovation centre in Baden -Württemberg. Gender...
Italian Female Tech Innovators Awarded in Bari
Angela Serpe and Carla Ferreri are the Best Italian inventor and innovator in Italy in 2010. Stefania Mondello was selected as the Best Italian...
Trust and security
Digital tools against cyberbullying - You decide spreads !
The Norwegian You Decide campaign has been adopted in around 15 countries. Thoughts and facts about the Internet and privacy and tools against digital...