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On 14 March 2023, the Basque Institute for Women (EMAKUNDE) and the Delegations of the Basque Country, Uruguay and Flanders in the US are organising the online event “Closing the Gender Gap in Research and Innovation: Best Practices and Common Challenges” in the context of the sixty-seventh session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women. 

The UN’s Commission on the Status of Women sixty-seventh session is focused on innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.

Therefore, the “Closing the Gender Gap in Research and Innovation: Best Practices and Common Challenges” aims at:

• Understanding the importance of broadening the approach to reducing the gender gap in the field of STEAM.
• Learning about institutional strategies and initiatives to reduce the gender gap in the context of innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age.
• Exploring ways for different institutions to foster working partnerships to reduce the gender gap in the context of innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age.

To register, please click here.

LCAMP project partners will follow this event as in our upcoming Annual Conferences, one of the central topics will be how to foster women’s integration to Advanced Manufacturing fields of VET.