Key Priorities

1. Getting more girls to study ICT and STEM
Strategic Actions
• European Girls' Days
• Girls in Robotics
• Engendering STEM education
2. Attracting to and retaining more women in ICT
Strategic Actions
• Certifying women/s digital skills
• Increasing the number of women with e-leadership skills
• Launching new Women and Girls Go Digital Coalitions as part of the Grand Coalition for Jobs initiative
3. Designing gender sensitive ICT solutions
Strategic Actions
• EIP SCC Gender and Diversity for Smart Cities Commitment;
• WIRES Summit Europe (Women International Research Engineering)
• Summit and new EU- Trans-Atlantic collaboration projects
4. Fostering women's digital entrepreneurship
Strategic Actions
• Incubators and accelerator programmes for women's digital start ups;
• Engendering digital start up ecosystems;
• e-platform of European women digital entrepreneurs
5. Sustaining ECWT as the leading platform and single point of contact in Europe for women in computing
Strategic Actions
• National Point of Contacts in all European countries ( at present 27)
• N-PoCs Annual Survey and KPIs Report;
• ECWT 2008-2015 External Evaluation;
• EU and global benchmarking and networking
• Organizing the inaugural 1st European Celebration of Women in Computing and sustaining it as an annually recurring flagship event in Europe