Accelerating women participation in STEM fields to respond to the needs of industry 4.0 - FEMSTEM

<< Objectives >>(O1) Advance the capacities of HEIs to promote participation of women in STEM fields of study; (O2) Create bridges of collaboration between women STEM students, women STEM Industry and Academic Experts and HEI Educators; (O3) Orchestrate a cross-sectoral and transnational cooperation to promote women participation in STEM in the higher education context; (O4) Adopt participatory action research methodology for co-creation of project tools and resources. << Implementation >>a.Development of HEI Educators eToolkit and creation of 20 VlogTalks with STEM Industry and Academic women expertsb.A multilingual online interactive platform (FEMSTEM Digital Bridge) in 4 languages (EN, ES, GR, LT) c.Four national FEMSTEM Bridge camps with 80 women STEM students and 40 FEMSTEM mentors d.20 FEMSTEM Mentorship and Work Shadowing Placements to be hosted by FEMSTEM Mentors e.A Transnational multi-stakeholder virtual FEMSTEM Summit with 40 relevant stakeholders << Results >>FEMSTEM will foster an industry-driven mentoring framework for STEM women students in higher education, promote inclusion and diversity as it is geared towards addressing the under-representation of women in STEM fields through a roadmap of activities, and apply a digitised and video-based approache (i.e. the FEMSTEM Digital Bridge and VlogTalks) to enhance the creation and innovative use of digital education content.