
Female Empowerment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Higher Education (FeSTEM) aims to promote an innovative method and pedagogy that will allow HE students to use traditional and computationally-rich media to create meaningful, shareable exhibits that will act as mentoring models for encouraging girls and women to remain active in STEM.
About us
The novelty of our approach is reflected in the activities that will make use of traditional and computationally-rich media through which we envisage to expose HE students to successful female role models in STEM and encourage the development of networking opportunities for women to establish a peer support system. The making of meaningful, shareable exhibits is based on the premise that by having students engage as scientists in a creative, hands-on, and passionate endeavour allows them to spark their motivation to remain active in STEM- a motivation that is often extinguished by extrinsic and goals and expectations of education and workplace.
The main project outcomes are foreseen to be: a gender-sensitive teaching methodology for engaging HE students in making shareable exhibits and promoting gender-equality issues, an open source online instrument for making gender-sensitive shareable exhibits, resources in the form of examples to illustrate how shareable exhibits can act as mentoring constructs for women in STEM and a mentoring community platform for STEM HE students.
Resources
Data and analysis of the current state of the art
regarding the needs, challenges, difficulties and expectations of women in STEM in higher education (HE) and industry.
FeSTEM methodology
a gender-sensitive curriculum for STEM that consists of a set of training methodologies that can be used for guiding gender-sensitive teaching and the FeSTEM approach that informs the training methodology.
FeSTEM industry-informed Toolkit
which summarises the challenges that girls and women are expected to encounter in their early and senior careers and propose best practices policies for young women to adopt when entering the STEM professional world.
Toolbox
with traditional and digital materials for constructing gender-sensitive exhibits as well as reporting on the materials and tools (digital and traditional) that can be used for developing gender-sensitive exhibits.
FeSTEM Online Learning Unit
based on the results of the previous outputs and available for wider usage.
FeSTEM community platform
that aims to link HE students in STEM with experienced mentors in the field.
News
Connecting women STEM: building a stronger network & a brighter future!
The FeSTEM project invites you to the 3rd Multiplier event of the FeSTEM project, which is organized by the team of SMILE Lab of the University of Macedonia, Greece, which will take place online on Monday, May 16th, 2022 between 11:15-15:30 CET. The event entitled...
Science Project Online Workshops
The FeSTEM project has run a series of two Science Project Online Workshops (SPOWs) organised jointly with Scientix within the framework of the STEM Discovery Campaign 2022. The Workshop objectives were to: Identify the gender-related challenges you want to discuss...
Dr. Antigoni Parmaxi at the Learning Café
On Thursday 07/04 at 15: 00-16: 00, Dimitris Charalambous hosted Dr. Antigoni Parmaxi, Coordinator of the FeSTEM project as well as coordinator of the Learning Enhancement and Development Network.