Under the framework of the E-STEAM program, the EuroFUE-UJI team will bring together a large group of mentors with long experience in the areas STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The mentors will play an essential role in the project, participating in its mentoring program. With their experience, they will serve as inspiration for the participants in the E-STEAM project, as female examples who have achieved their dreams through STEM areas of study.
This phase will include a total of 11 mentors from the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical areas. In the area of chemistry there is the UJI professor Rosa Llusar and the researchers from the University Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) Beatriz Julián and Macarena Poyatos. The professor and doctor in agricultural engineering at the UJI, María Jesús Muñoz, and Elena Fernández, a graduate in Multimedia Engineering from the University of Valencia (ETSE), will also be part of the mentoring phase.
In the area of science, E-STEAM has the doctors in Computer Science Mercedes Marqués and Inmaculada Remolar, the graduate in Psychology Raquel Agost and the graduate in Biomedical Sciences Marta Tolosa, who are joined by the graduate in Biological Sciences Marisa Falcó and the project manager for Assurance of Maintenance Technical Competencies at BP, Susana Pérez. All of them will share their experience with the mentees in their respective areas. Although some of them, such as chemical researcher Beatriz Julián, have already wanted to share their perspective on the situation of the women in studies and STEM careers.
Over the next few months, the mentors will each work with 2 participants of the E-STEAM project, whom they will guide and advise according to the results achieved to date by the Universitat Jaume I-Empresa Foundation in collaboration with the GeST, Gender, Health and Work research group (http://gest.uji.es/) directed by the professor of the Universitat Jaume I Eva Cifre and the project consortium made up of six entities and led by the Agrupamento de Escolas de Silves (Portugal). The last data obtained and on which we will work are the following four stereotypes: girls believe they are less capable of studying STEM (science, technology, mathematics and engineering); They, on the contrary, feel more comfortable in these sectors of communication; They are more hardworking and for them working in STEM fields is something innate and, lastly, men are guided to achieve their goals and women are guided towards care and society.
With the help of their mentors, the Erasmus+ E-STEAM (Equality in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) project will work for two years to increase and balance the presence of the woman in fields of education scientific, responding to its limited presence in this area.
