European Centre for Women and Technology

11/05/2025

Portugal,Ireland, Spain, France and Estonia once again dominate the European Prize for Women Innovators 2025 awarded by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) and the European Institute for Innovation & Technology (EIT), recognizing the role of women in driving transformative change and fostering innovation-driven growth in the European Union. Congratulations to all the winners and runner-ups!

2025 European Prize for Women Innovators’ Winners: Recognising Women’s Groundbreaking Achievements in Innovation News 03/04/2025 EIT Today, the Commission has announced the winners and runners-up of the 11th edition of the European Prize for Women Innovators, jointly managed by the European Inno...

08/11/2024

Super interesting and opens new perspectives for intensified cross-sectoral research.

El uso del chatbot ChatGPT, desarrollado por OpenAI, implica un alto consumo de agua.

Un estudio reciente de la Universidad de California revela que este sistema utiliza aproximadamente dos litros de agua para responder entre 10 y 50 consultas, una cifra que los investigadores consideran cuatro veces mayor a las estimaciones iniciales debido a la evaporación.

Este consumo se vuelve particularmente preocupante ante la creciente demanda de IA en todo el mundo, la cual podría intensificar la presión sobre los recursos hídricos a medida que más usuarios accedan a estos servicios.

22/10/2024

Some of the most memorable moments from the GIRL TECH FEST 2024 in Oslo at Teknisk Museum

22/10/2024

The 10th @ Girl Tech Fest at Teknisk Museum in Oslo with 200+ girls, 14 tech businesses, 80+ women in leading position in the tech sector in Norway and the presence of Karianne Tung, Minister for Digitalisation and Public Governance was a powerful jubilee celebration.

This unique school day from 09:00- 13:30 offered 14 different workshops, each and every one of them organized in partnership with businesses: create your own cartoon with artificial intelligence (Bouvet), crack the code (EY), AI Ethical School Program (Deloitte), program a friend (Spier Group), Sphero robots (Telia), build your own bank (Sparebank1), prototypes for app development (Atea), create your own gaming universe in Roblox (NetCompany), my dream app (Sopra Steria), cooperative game with balls (Twoday), The Rechnology Adventure (BEKK), With a twinkling heart for technology (EIKA), Imagicharms (Webstep) and How can technology improve everyday life in the future? (ADVANIA).

And the girls - all of them could choose 3 workshops during the day - passionately enjoyed experimenting with what technology is good for and what their personal interest is!

We who participated believe that with better diversity and gender balance prejudices are not coded into the digital solutions and products that are developed.

The aim of the visit was precisely to demonstrate that we will together serve as good examples and role models for the girls by showing our commitment and showcase the joys of technology.

And Girl Tech Fest today, the 22nd of October was not just celebrated is Oslo, but also in:

- Bergen Åsene @ Biblioteket i Åsene
- Bøler Bøler
- Flekkefjord @ Flekkefjord Bibliotek - Spira
- Flesberg @ Flesberg Bibliotek
- Haugesund @ Folkebiblioteket
- Kongsvinger @ Innlandet Science Park
- Kristiansand @ Kristiands Folkebibliotek
- Lambertseter @ Deichman Lambertseter
- Larvik @ Larvik Bibliotek
- Lindesnes @ Lindesnes Bibliotek
- Mosjøen @ Vefsn Bibliotek
- Narvik @ Narvik Bibliotek
- Oppsal @ Deichman Oppsal
- Porsgrunn @ Porsgrunn Bibliotek
- Rakkestad @ Rakkestad Bibliotek
- Rauma @ Rauma Folkebibliotek
- Sandefjord @ Sandefjord Bibliotek
- Stavanger @ Oljemuseet
- Stord @ Stord Bibliotek
- Tromsø @ Nordnorsk Vitensenter
- Trondheim @ Folkebiblioteket
- Ålesund @ Brattvåg Bibliotek
- Ålesund Haramsøy @ Haramsøy Bibliotek

and 24 other venues are still in the pipeline!

As you may recall our Launch Day announcement:

4000 girls - 50 cities - 50 events =

13/10/2024

From 1st July 2024 ECWT is passionately involved in the Code4Europe mega consortium of 40+ partners funded by the European Commission taking responsibility for the Code Weeks in Europe 2024 - 2026.

ECWT will

(i) act as a National Hub
(ii) function as coordinator of the Nordic Regional Hub and
(iii)focus on Girls in Digital: by capitalizing on its experiences since 2008 contribute to diminishing the gender gap in coding through developing the biggest role models and mentoring community, organising new innovative activities and competitions and incentivising new partnerships.

The kick-off of the European Commission financed project took place as an on-line event on the 11th of July and was followed up by a F2F kick-off on the 11-12th September in Brussels in the framework of both a Partnership Meeting and the 1st meeting with Code Week Ambassadors, Lead Teachers and strategic partners.

The official Launch event of Code Week 2024 took place as a hybrid event in Brussels on the 11th of October, 14:30 - 16:00.

Welcome to join Code Week4All!

The event is more than just a celebration of coding: it’s a MOVEMENT that empowers people across Europe to learn, experiment & engage with Digital Skills.

15/07/2024

We are thrilled to announce that ECWT is part of CODE4EUROPE - the biggest consortium ever responsible for the European Code Week that will be organized 14th-27th of October 2024 and the years to come!

The on-line kick-off of the Digital Europe programme financed project led by JA Europe and bringing together over 40 educational and digital industry, academia and not for profit stakeholders from 20+ European countries with the goal to supercharge digital education across Europe took place on the 11th of July and will be followed up by a F2F kick-off on the 11-12th September in Brussels.

ECWT will function both as a National Hub (for Norway) and coordinator of the Nordic Regional Hub and by capitalizing on its experiences since 2008 contribute to diminishing the gender gap in coding through developing the biggest role models and mentoring community, organizing new innovative activities and competitions and incentivising new partnerships - and launching some real suprizes! Follow us on

24/05/2024

Find out about the work we are doing in the framework of Ecovem

Business-Science-Education Partnership – Best Practices in Microelectronics from ECoVEM project. Find more at:
https://ecovem.eu/DBBP/BPPdf/CompanySponsoringLab.pdf

21/05/2024

From mechanics to mechatronics and much more, these were the topics discussed during the event organized by the COMET - Cluster della Metalmeccanica del FVG in collaboration with ialweb.it, both partners of our projects.

⚙ The educational session also included the distribution of an educational kit to the students, a sort of microelectronics lesson "in a box" to promote a learning by doing approach.

21/05/2024

Business-Science-Education Partnership – Best Practices in Microelectronics from ECoVEM project
Find more �https://ecovem.eu/DBBP/BPPdf/YouTubeChannelSIE.pdf

19/03/2024

Happy IWD 2024!

The history of women in technology is fascinating and tough at the same time. Women have been fundamental in the tech industry since its origins around 300 years ago. Still, there are only 25% of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) today. Let us find out why and how we c...

12/03/2024

Global trends in deep tech, (ecwt.eu/resources/trends), This analytical report is intended to inform about technologies and engineering that have the potential to create transformational solutions and more!
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27/02/2024

Inclusive AI & Skills Conference, (ecwt.eu/resources/trends),
This gathering will be pivotal in bridging the AI skills gap, empowering female entrepreneurs, and fostering inclusive leadership!
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