โถSummary
Empowering youth and promoting their employability is crucial for the future of the EU. STEMAzing focuses on young women at risk of marginalization and employs STEM as a life skill to 1) empower t...
โถObjectives
Empowering youth and promoting their employability is crucial for the future of the EU. STEMAzing focuses on young women at risk of marginalization and employs STEM as a life skill to 1) empower them by enhancing problem-solving and critical thinking life skills; 2) practically promote their employability, 3) create drivers of change and 4) produce a sustainable, replicable model for reducing poverty and social exclusion, promoting gender equality, and increasing the pool of skilled workers.
โถActivities
STEMAzing will provide tailored synchronous and asynchronous training on STEM as life skill; will create change agents and empower them to act as multipliers of knowledge, paring them with women mentors in STEM fields, creating links to the business sector, raise awareness on STEM education and careers and provide access to innovative resources. It will reach up to 500 young women, 18-25, at risk of marginalization due to geographical or socio-economic barriers, in the participating countries
โถImpact
STEMAzing aims to address unemployment and empowerment of young women who face barriers due to their gender, remote place of residence and poor socio-economic status, using STEM-as-a-life-skill. It directly addresses gender inequality, marginalization, skills shortages, social exclusion. STEMAzing promotes youth employability and empowerment of young women at risk of marginalization; fight gender inequality and marginalization; addresses job market skills shortage: and promotes social Inclusion.