ERACON 2023 – Let’s Break the Silicon Ceiling
ERACON 2023 is the largest convention focusing on Erasmus+ initiatives and this year it is the 19th ERACON conference and exhibition that is attracting 291 organizations from various countries within the EU the 26-30th June in Rome.
Norway – Piloting spearhead projects
Inspired by the European scheme for vocational centres of excellence (CoVEs), the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir) is funding two vocational colleges to work long-term with quality development and
Norway: reception of Ukrainian refugees in the education system
The Norwegian Government is welcoming Ukrainian refugees and has started preparing for the challenges to come. A temporary collective protection status for refugees from Ukraine has been introduced.
European skills index out
European skills development systems do converge, but with still a long way to go, while early indications suggest that the coronavirus pandemic has been delaying unhindered transfer of skills to the labor market.
DIGITALEUROPE and Women4IT Webinar
On 28 October 2021, DIGITALEUROPE our partner in the EEA and Norway Grants co-financed the WOMEN4IT project (2018 – 2022 and prolonged until the end of January 2023) training 1000+ women (19 to 29 years old) in the NEET
OECD Ministerial Council Meeting
On the 5th of October 2021, the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting addressed the Digital Gender Divides in a special workshop and presented the latest status update of the OECD Going Digital Toolkit 2021.
Digital skills training
Halfway through the Women4IT project, on 11 March 2020, lead partner LIKTA and Tech. mt organized the Women4IT Validation Workshop in Sliema, Malta.
Leaders with strong technical skills
The 'High-Tech and Leadership Skills for Europe' conference on 26 January highlighted the need for more leaders and professionals with high-tech skills if Europe is to keep pace with fast and disruptive technological change and stressed the following.
Edu-Code project
ECWT´s key engagement in the area of coding is during 2016-2017 focused on the annual EU Code Week activities and being a committed partner in the Edu-Code project.
A delegation of Gandia City led by the Mayor Gandia
A delegation of Gandia City led by Mayor Gandia, Diana Morant, and the Counsellor for Economic Development, Alicia Izquierdo, have highly valued the days of intensive work in Oslo and Drammen they have done the last three days within the
Dutch Girls Enthusiastic About Coding
The event was organised by VHTO, the Dutch national expert organisation on girls/women and science/technology and the Dutch N-PoC of ECWT that wants to encourage girls to not just be consumers of technology, but also creators of it!
Dell Gender GEDI study
Winners of the European Women Innovators Award 2014. The 2014 year's winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators are Saskia Biskup (Germany, first prize), Laura van 't Veer (The Netherlands, second prize), and Ana Maiques (Spain, third prize).
THE OTHER HACKATON
SAP and Berlin Geekettes organized a vibrating event, the „OTHER HACKATON“ on July 4th-6th with 35 external and 15 internal participants at the SAP Innovation Center in Potsdam. The event was focused around empowering women in tech and showing that