The last day will take place on 21 April at the Madrid-Puerta de Toledo Campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Leganes Tecnologico and the Madrid Science Park.
The Science and Technology for Women initiative, whose main objective is to promote scientific and technological vocations among young women and in which Malaga TechPark actively participates, will end its 4th edition with an on-site event at the Campus Madrid–Puerta de Toledo of the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid in collaboration with the Parque Científico Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Leganes Tecnologico and the Madrid Science Park.
The main results of this edition will be presented, a round table with STEAM women will be held and the winning group of the sustainable development challenge competition will be announced.
From the beginning of the programme on 26 October until March, the 19 science and technology parks participating in this 4th edition of the project promoted by the Asociacion de Parques Cientificos y Tecnologicos de España (APTE) have held a total of 52 days to make science, technology, engineering and mathematics studies visible and promote them, in which more than 8,000 secondary school students from 88 schools throughout Spain have taken part.
Finalists in the challenge competition
The project has encouraged all students to participate in the competition “Innovative proposals to the challenges for sustainable development” (in Spanish “Propuestas innovadoras a los retos para el desarrollo sostenible”) by submitting proposals for actions that science and technology parks can take to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
After the evaluation of the finalist proposals presented in each of the participating science and technology parks, three proposals have reached the final on this 21 April: Oceans free of microplastics, Waterumb from IES Violant de Casalduch together with Espaitec, Parc Científic Tecnologic i Empresarial de la Universitat Jaume I de Castello; Obtaining filaments for 3D printing from PET bottles and containers from Santo Angel de Ourense School together with Parque Tecnoloxico de Galicia – Tecnopole, and STEAMBIKE from IES Gabriel Garcia Marquez de Leganes together with Parque Científico Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Leganes Tecnologico.
Roundtable
In addition to discovering the winning group of the competition, the closing ceremony of this edition of Science and Technology for Women will include the roundtable: ‘Three generations of STEAM women in the environment of Spanish science and technology parks’ (in Spanish ‘Tres generaciones de mujeres STEAM en el entorno de los parques cientificos y tecnologicos españoles’), which will feature women who work in the scientific and technological environment of the Parque Científico Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Leganés Tecnológico and the Madrid Science Park.
The event can be followed by streaming on APTE’s Youtube channel.
Science and Technology for Women
Science and Technology for Women is an initiative of the Asociación de Parques Cientificos y Tecnologicos de España (APTE) that aims to promote scientific and technological vocations in order to reduce the gender gap in STEAM studies.