The Hypatia project aims to increase gender diversity in STEM careers by empowering teenage girls aged 13-18. Over three years, it will develop tools for schools and institutions to engage teenagers in STEM activities and promote STEM careers to teenagers in a gender-inclusive way. It will also strengthen collaboration between schools, science centers, research institutions, and industries. The project expects to reach over 450,000 students and promote more gender-balanced images of STEM careers.

1. Hypatia
Meie van Laar
Deputy Manager
Science Learning Center
Coördinator Hypatia Project
Vanlaar@e-nemo.nl
+31 20-5 313 134

2. Hypatia, born in Greece c AD 350 – 415, Mathematician, astronomer and philisopher
“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can
comprehend.To understand the things that are at our door is de best
preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”

3. • underrepresentation of women pursuing science
related careers around europe.
According to the 2010 eurobarometer report.There is growing gender
difference, with girls having a more sceptical attitude towards science
careers than boys.
• Key factor for teenagers when choosing subjects at
school is the influence of peers, family and teachers.
• Gender balance can’t be introduced to addressing
young people alone. Research and industry must be
engaged to change the attitude towards gender.
Why Hypatia

4. Partners of Hypatia
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5. Facts and figures of Hypatia
Partners

6. Facts and figures of Hypatia
Third parties

7. Our target group

8. - Empower girls aged 13-18 in order to discover the
variety of STEM related careers for them
- Engage schools, museum, research institutions and
industry in a more gender-inclusieve way of
communicating STEM
What is the aim of Hypatia

9. Three year project: august 2015- august 2018
- involving teenagers directly in the process of creating
gender-inclusieve perceptions of STEM.
- we create a better understanding on how to
communicate with them and how to co-create activities
that are meaningful and influential.
How do we want to reach these goals

10. • Creating a modular toolkit for schools, science
centres and museums, research institutions and
industry, developed in consultation with stakeholders,
gender experts and panels of teenagers
• Organising activities engaging teenagers in STEM
using the Hypatia tools in order to engage them in the
variety of future career opportunitues in STEM in a way
that is meaningful to thema both in and out of school
environmnets
What are we going to do

11. • Strenghtening the interactions among schools,
science centres and museums, regional authorities,
industries and research centres via the creation of
national Hubs
• Disseminating the hypatia digital toolkits beyond the
reach of the project partners by engaging relevant
networks and key stakeholders throughout the project.
What are we going to do

12. No new materials, but use of already existing good
practices from other projects. For example:
• video’s of 42 women
• Find your talent card game
• Science its a girl thing activities
• Gender day activities
• Eye opener activity for educators
With the tools our aim is to reach throughout Europe :
12.000 secondary schools, 31.000 teachers, 450.000 students
Toolkit - impact

13. - Encourages and support girls in following a study path
and career path
- Raise interest for STEM careers
- Promote gender-balanced images of men and women
in STEM careers
- Developed and/or implemented in cooperation
among relevant stakeholder
- Easy and inexpensive to implement
- Involve STEM related professionals directly
Criteria good practices

14. Each national HUB will draw up a calendar of events
with activities engagingTeenagers. For example
• Gender days
• Museum nights
• Researchers’ night
• Science Festivals
With the activities our aim is to reach throughout Europe :
213.000 teenagers
Activities engagingTeenagers - Impact

15. The involvement of international industries and research
institutions that will commit to this project through the
hubs will ensure the involvement of relevant role models
of a wide scale
Our aim is to reach throughout Europe :
140 research and industry institutions, 19.500 teenagers
(through the institutions)
Strenghten the interactions - Impact

16. - Change the way science is communicated
We will produce activities and guidelines for schools, informal learning
institutes, research institutions and industryinstitutions how to communicate
science with their students
- Increase the participaton and interest of girls in STEM
Activities will be based on good practices and implemented in a much larger
scale
- Encourage sustainable collaboration among schools,
science museums, research institutes and industry on
gender equality and science
Creation of hubs in each participating country for long term collaboration
Expected Impacts

17. Planning and Implementation
08-2015/03-2016 Theoretical framework
EU Advisory board
03-2016/08-2018 HUBS
09-2016 national launch event
05-2016/09-2016development toolkit modules
09-2016/02-2017 pilot phase
03-2016/09-2016 def toolkit ready
09-2016/08-2018 toolkit implementation
translation
dissimination

18. Project evaluation
• Both formative and summative evaluations.
• In-situ interviews with target audiences
• visits to at least one consortium partner to observe the
implementation of the activities.
• Pre-post surveys with participants and stakeholders
(online and/or offline)
• longer term follow up within the timeframe of the project
in order to monitor lasting effects.
• Document analysis from institutions sources and other
sources.

19. Our Dissemination and Communication Strategy will be taking care of
two main target groups
TheTeenagers Group and
“adults” group, were most of us are
To the teenagers we want to communicate science is a path, an
oportunity, it’s fun.
To the adults, we want to show them and to transfer theToolkit, so
there are ways to teach, to work, to live in a nongender-bias way.
We will develop especial messages and we will build upon Science is a
girl thing campaign, launched in 2013.
Website, social media, newsletters, press releases and a leaflet will be
part of our tools
Project Dissemination

20. We just started!
- Writing the theoretical framework
- Gathering good practices
- Start up of the Advisory board and third parties
- Selecting the external evaluator
- Defining the campaign
Where are we now

21. Meie van Laar
Science Center NEMO
Coördinator Hypatia Project
vanlaar@e-nemo.nl
+31 20 5 313 134
AndreaTroncoso
Ecsite
WP leader dissimination
atroncoso@ecsite.eu
+32 2 649 73 83
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