ECWT – BEBRAS -Code Week Press Release, 1st September 2026: BEBRAS joining Code Week as Supporter and ECWT Initiative for linking the three ecosystems of Coding-Computational Thinking – Digital Skills. The presentation is the first in a series of dialogues inviting the players of the three key ecosystems to a broad Community dialogue on what are the implications of BEBRAS & EU Code Week acting as Complementary Gateways. Widening of the dialogue with the Digital Skills Community is planned for September. Stay tuned and the official launch of the initiative in connection with Code Week 2026, the 12th of October in Brussel.

EFA26 World of Women: The European Forum Alpbach (EFA) values diverse voices. A healthy democracy must reflect all perspectives, which is why EFA actively encourages non-male contributors in both its programming and participation. The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) remains a major challenge across Europe. At the European Forum Alpbach, we’re working to close that gap by actively inviting emerging female* talents to join the conversation.

womENcourage™ 2026: The ACM Celebration of Women in Computing, womENcourage™ 2026, is coming to the amazing Sophia Antipolis, in the Nice Region and the French Riviera, France, hosted by Polytech’Nice Sophia, IUT Nice Côte d’Azur and Laboratoire I3S at Université Côte d’Azur.

Transforming Education Summit: UNESCO mobilizes leaders as 113 countries spend more on debt payments than on education. Four years after the landmark Transforming Education Summit convened by the UN Secretary-General, UNESCO is bringing together education leaders from around the world to identify solutions to the global education financing crisis.

European Prize for Women Innovators 2026 celebrates visionary women: Today, the European Commission revealed the winners of the 12th edition of the European Prize for Women Innovators at the European Innovation Council (EIC) Summit in Brussels. The award honours the groundbreaking contributions of women entrepreneurs whose innovations are driving progress and strengthening Europe’s competitive edge in the global economy.

L’Oréal–UNESCO Awards for Women in Science 2026: Marking 28 years of impact, the 2026 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards honor five pioneering researchers. UNESCO and The Fondation L’Oréal are proud to announce the names of the five international Laureates of the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards.

Open Community Experience (OCX) 2026: Organised by the Eclipse Foundation and taking place in Brussels on 21–23 April 2026, offers a valuable opportunity for dialogue and collaboration between developers, researchers, industry leaders, and open source communities. For women scientists, OCX provides a space to engage with emerging technological ecosystems while contributing perspectives that are vital for building responsible and inclusive innovation.

It’s a wrap! GatE Transnational Project Meeting in Cadiz: On 18-19 March 2026, the GatE consortium was hosted by APEC in Cadiz for its 2nd Transnational Project Meeting. The project has now completed its first year of implementation, and partners gathered in person to review progress and plan upcoming activities for the second phase of the project.

Adobe World Champ 2026 – Swedish Qualifier: NTI & ECWT Collaboration in connection with the Adobe Certified Professional World Championship. In 2026 NTI is partnering with the European Centre for Women and Technology to run the annual Adobe Champ 2026 Sweden Qualifier on the 14th of April 2026 at Kista Fair, Stockholm for the CERTIPORT Adobe Certified Professional World Championship in Anaheim, California taking place the 26–29th July 2026.

Inspiring the next generation: Discover the innovative projects revitalising STEM education. Supported by UNESCO and Huawei, 5 teams from across Europe are pushing the boundaries of traditional learning to engage young minds and break down gender barriers. STEM is more than a school subject. It is a vital tool for development, innovation, and opportunity in modern life.

Winners of the 1st EU Code Week Small Grants: The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) in the capacity of Coordinator of the Nordic Regional Hub is pleased to announce the awardees of the first EU Code Week Small Grants for Grassroots in Coding in the Nordic Countries competition. The first winner (Niilo Napakettu) of the 2025/2026 competition scored 154.50 points, with an eight-point margin over the second and third-place competitors, who both scored 146.50 points.

Funding Opportunities – Call for Proposals 2025 :The EIT Higher Education Initiative Call for Proposals 2025 invites partnerships led by higher-education institutions and their collaborators to apply for competitive funding of up to €2 million per project to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship capacity across Europe’s higher-education sector. The call supports impactful projects through two key themes and offers practical funding, guidance, and information sessions to help applicants prepare strong proposals for submission before the 4 March 2026 deadline.

EIT Launches €70 Million Call to Boost STEM Innovation:The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has launched a new call under its Higher Education Initiative (HEI) to boost STEM education, strengthen innovation capacity, and support Europe’s future workforce.

Winners announced for the 2025 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science: London | New York, 16 October 2025 – The Nature Awards and The Estée Lauder Companies are excited to present Sue Han Lee, a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia, and WinSci Pakistan; With this year’s Scientific Achievement and Science Outreach Awards, respectively.

UNESCO DG calls for unhindered access to education for girls in STEM 

Salvatore Nigro, CEO of JA Europe: “Through EU Code Week, we are changing the lives of millions of young people by equipping them with the skills to shape their own Europe. This consortium shows the power of collaboration, empowering youth with the digital skills they need to succeed in the future.”

Diversity Manifesto «Mangfoldsoppropet»: Global forces are now rapidly undermining and reversing the progress made in the last decades in terms of equality and diversity, and our values are under great pressure. More than ever, we need clear counter-voices and role models who stand up for an inclusive and democratic future. The Diversity Manifesto commits senior leaders to preserving and strengthening efforts towards inclusion and diversity. 

2025 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards: The Fondation L’Oréal and UNESCO are proud to announce the names of the five international laureates of the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards. On 12 June at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, these researchers will be recognised for their pioneering contributions to physical sciences, mathematics and computer science.

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected: The climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our times. It threatens to reverse progress on human rights and sustainable development and worsens gender inequality – posing specific risks to the ways of life, livelihoods, health, safety and security for all women and girls around the world.

YOUTH IMPACT – BECAUSE YOU MATTER: For Environmental Sustainability and Climate Action is an initiative led by UNESCO in collaboration with Nestlé, powered by the Nestlé Youth Entrepreneurship Platform. It seeks to support young people to help their communities through climate action and environmental sustainability initiatives, by providing them with resources and skills necessary to implement their innovative projects.

EU launches InvestAI initiative to mobilise €200 billion of investment in artificial intelligence. At the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit in Paris, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilise €200 billion for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20 billion …

UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) officially launch the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, marking a crucial milestone in global efforts to protect the vital ice that provides freshwater to over 2 billion people. This global and coordinated initiative throughout the year will seek to highlight …

Empowering Women at the Heart of Innovation: Emerging Technologies and Gender Equity. We invite academics, researchers, early career professionals and students to submit their work (or work in progress) as a short paper that will be presented as a poster at the inaugural Women in Engineering poster session at EDUCON.

Questions and Answers – Agreement on the EU Annual Budget 2025: The budget 2025 directs funds to where they can make the greatest difference, in cooperation and in line with the needs of the EU Member States and our partners around the world to make Europe more resilient and fit for the future to the benefit of EU citizens and businesses. 

EU invests over €380 million to support the green transition all around Europe: The Commission has granted today more than €380 million to 133 new projects across Europe under the LIFE Programme for environment and climate action. The projects will cover all areas of the LIFE programme, mobilising:

Exploring the emergence of microcredentials in vocational education and training (VET): This working paper aims to critique the emergence of microcredentials in vocational education and training. It argues that considering microcredentials as a new tool to reorient higher or academic education overlooks the potential of vocational and professional education as well as its aim to equip learners with employability skills, in line with increasing labour market demands.

Key figures on European living conditions – 2023 edition: Key figures on European living conditions provides intuitive visualisations and a comprehensive overview of living conditions in Europe. The first section describes income distribution and inequality, shedding light on social and financial disparities across countries and focusing on the challenges that certain groups face in accessing necessities.

Pushing for more diversity and gender equity in the renewable energy sector

W4RES, the EU-funded project which aims at calling up the involvement of women in the market deployment and uptake of RHC solutions, will publish a report with policy recommendations aiming at creating a more competitive, inclusive and gender-responsive Renewable Heating and Cooling landscape.

Women4IT introduces Open Educational Resources as a measure to foster accessible digital education for all: OERs – or Open Educational Resources are learning, teaching and research materials carefully curated by the Women4IT partners to foster accessible digital education across Europe. The increasingly growing library of 300+ third-party educational content – in six EU languages – includes resources such as mini-courses, training syllabi, reports, articles and podcasts covering a wide range of topics, occupational profiles’ competencies and skill levels and is available at zero cost to everyone who wishes to expand their tech knowledge and boost digital skills at their own pace.

Breaking barriers: Differences in the perception of gender barriers in the RHC sector. W4RES, the Horizon 2020 project on Women for Market Uptake of Renewable Heating and Cooling (RHC), has released a survey on the perceived barriers by women to the uptake of Renewable Heating and Cooling solutions in eight European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Slovak Republic) …

The Greek Innovation Lab for Women (#GIL4W) opened: #GIL4W is a partnership of 5 Ministries, 15 Agencies, Research Centers, Academic Institutions, Chambers, and Private Sector organizations, with ECWT as one of the co-founders.

WOMEN4IT Final Conference is just the beginning for more Women in Digital Jobs of the Future: The EEA & Norway Grants co-financed project was held on 20th January 2022 which was originally planned as the final conference in a hybrid format in Brussels. The consortium recognized the stakeholders who particularly contributed to the success of the project with the Women4IT Employability Awards given to 15 Employers and 14 Ambassadors. Just a few weeks before the event the Funding Organizations have prolonged WOMEN4IT until the end of January 2023: the training for Jobs of the Future will continue in six piloting countries and the success stories will be disseminated to new regions across Europe.

EU-GCC Dialogue on Economic Diversification & the European Centre for Women and Technology bring Women in Tech Forum to World Expo 2020 in Dubai: “Women’s Path to Ikigai -Technology, Entrepreneurship, Self-Development, and Agility” will explore how the ‘Ikigai’ concept and innovation for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability (DEIS) are keys to the next generation of women founders and how to initiate new partnerships between EU and GCC actors for moonshots supporting the female talents.

We would like to inform you about the results of the ifempower project, coordinated by the HÉTFA Research Institute. Our project is outstanding in Europe in its innovative approach to integrating young women’s entrepreneurship education into university education.

Young Women´s leadership in the digital economy – 2nd WOMEN4IT Dissemination Conference in Madrid: The event focused on sharing experiences of leading education and youth work experts testing the Women4IT tools for innovative digital skills training. The event stressed the need for building strong STEM Alliances in all Member States.

W4RES Kickoff Meeting: A HORIZON Europe project with 12 partners from 8 European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Slovakia to support women in renewable energy systems in Europe.

Get your digital career on track! – Dublin Conference 30th of October 2020: The Dublin Conference confirmed, that if European tech firms and businesses want to put an end to losing out on a wide range of talent and diversity and remain competitive on the global stage especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemics, they need to hire women across all levels of management.

WOMEN4IT Validation Workshop in Malta: Leading education and youth work experts test Women4IT tools for innovative digital skills training of NEET women!

WOMEN4IT – Pressrelease of the 1st Year: One year into the project: 2 extensive studies, 7 national collaboration platforms, and 8 digital job profiles developed.