The Pedro Poveda School in Jaén (Spain) and the Sint-Romboutscollege in Mechelen (Belgium) have been collaborating on exchange projects for six years. Now under an Erasmus+ project to work together on a common project where the role of women in the field of science is highlighted.
When designing the proposal we start from three premises:
The need to increase scientific vocations, since it is a field where thousands of jobs are being created, the need to offer scientific literacy for the entire population, regardless of their further studies, and highlighting the role of women in
our current society and, in particular, in the field of science and technology.
For this, we will design a series of didactic units where each school will work on female contributions in the STEM field, analyzing their discoveries and designing experiments that review or relate to the studies or work of these scientists. All these activities will culminate in its public exhibition at a science fair organized annually by the Pedro Poveda school in Jaén.
In relation to mobilities, a first flow was made to Belgium to prepare the activities jointly among all, in
international teams and the second flow in Spain where the work was to be completed had to be canceled due to COVID. The following course we could not do anything. An extension of the project was requested for one more year and in that third year we were able to finalize the pending mobilities.
Our collaboration was carried out through the organization of an eTwinning project.
In the end we have obtained a dossier with the activities carried out, available to anyone interested in reproducing our work, ensuring that the impact remains over time. Although in our case, we will continue to use them,
with its corresponding improvements, in events such as the day of girls and women in science or the day of women.
We hope in this way to contribute our small grain of sand in favor of equality and equity between genders.
In reference to dissemination, it has been carried out throughout the entire project except in some moments of the pandemic in contributions to congresses or professors’ conferences, without forgetting social networks.
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