Gender Balance Actions, Policies and Strategies for STEMResults from a World Café Conversation

  1. Francisco José García-Peñalvo 1
  2. Alessandro Bello
  3. Angeles Dominguez 2
  4. Romero Chacón, Rosaura M. 3
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

  2. 2 Universidad Andrés Bello
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    Universidad Andrés Bello

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    ROR https://ror.org/01qq57711

  3. 3 Universidad de Costa Rica
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    Universidad de Costa Rica

    San José, Costa Rica

    ROR https://ror.org/02yzgww51

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Journal:
Education in the knowledge society (EKS)

ISSN: 2444-8729,  1138-9737

Year of publication: 2019

Issue: 20

Type: Article

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Abstract

W-STEM project is working to reduce the existing gender gap in Science, specifically in STEM fields in Latin America. During an International Leadership Summit, held in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) on November 26th, 2019 within the project scope, forty-four people, including researchers and policymakers at the higher education institutions, participated in a World Café conversation to discuss about the potential actions, policies and strategies might be develop in the universities to reduce the above mentioned gender gap in STEM studies. Four tables were conducted, and this paper summarizes the most outstanding conclusions of the conversations.

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With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in its Key Action 2 “Capacity-building in Higher Education”. Project W-STEM “Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM” (Reference number 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which re 퀀lects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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