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Women In IT at the Imagine Cup

Posted in WIL event reports
09 July 2008

Panelists:

Thaima Samman, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
Jan Figel, European Commissioner for Education, Culture & Youth
Claudie Haignere, Astronaut and former IT and Research Minister
Simon Brown, Vice President DPE, Microsoft
Aude de Thuin, President of the Women’s Forum for Economy
Marc Durando, Director, EU SchoolNet

In cooperation with the French Presidency, the Women’s Forum and European SchoolNet, the Women in IT session was organized during Microsoft’s worldwide competition for students in IT, Imagine Cup.

Out of the 400 finalists participating in Imagine Cup, only 52 of them were girls following IT studies. As this reality is reflected at a worldwide level, the meeting featured a high level debate on how to raise awareness and develop specific policies that would grow the participation of young women in technology and science studies.

The event was an opportunity for 15 young Imagine Cup competitors/finalists to share the stage and be role models for 15 young European high school girls invited to participate and help them focus their future studies in the area of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Women in IT took place as an official event of the French EU Presidency. It was endorsed by the EU Commissioner of Education, Youth and Culture, Jan Figel and gathered more than 250 attendees (including French and European ministries cabinet members, policymakers, industry representatives, teachers and international journalists).

Tags: Mentoring Program, Girls in IT, Women in Technology, EU Commission, Member of European Parliament

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