Despite great efforts by policies and projects at the european, national and local levels, it is estimated that the participation rate of women in ICT is much lower than that of men. As a partner of WeSTEAM project, Sineglossa aims to empower women through Art Thinking.
The STEAM (Science – Technology – Engineering – Art – Math) approach may therefore be a key strategy to make STEM courses more attractive for women.
WeSTEAM aims at developing, testing and disseminating a methodology based on the STEAM approach to enhance the Art Thinking skills of female students engaged in STEM careers in order to:
- Empower female STEM students for increasing their chances of employment in ICT high-level positions once they graduate
- Increase the attractiveness of STEM courses for women
Project Goals
- Design and disseminate a reference framework for assessing women STEM students’ Art Thinking capacity. This will allow students to gain awareness of the skills they need to enhance in order to complement their curricula according to a STEAM approach;
- Design and disseminate a training methodology to be used by STEM teachers in their teaching activities, or by female students themselves, to enhance, through a set of training tools, artistic thinking skills;
- Design and disseminate a VR-based educational game for enhancing art thinking capacity in women STEM students in an interactive and attractive way;
- Create a certification system, in line with national and EU qualification frameworks, for recognition and certification of Art Thinking skills. This will allow women STEM students to prove their skills and communicate them when applying for further learning or jobs across Europe.
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Credits
WeSTEAM project is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program.
Partners:
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Ars Electronica, Austria
Changemaker Educations, Sweden
Espronceda, Spain
Sineglossa, Italy
