The Bracco Foundation and Department 5 of the Directorate General of Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation have joined forces to promote “progettoDiverterò nel Mondo”, the international edition of progettoDiventerò.
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“Mind the STEM Gap – Together” (30 June – 29 October 2023 at CDI-Centro Diagnostico Italiano, No 20 Via Sant Bon, Milan) is an exhibition of works produced by 150 students of both sexes participating in the “Mind the STEM Gap” Manifesto, an initiative run by Fondazione Bracco to encourage girls and women to transcend sexist stereotypes by entering and prospering in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
Mind the Stem Gap is Fondazione Bracco’s Manifesto in support of access to STEM disciplines for women, overcoming gender stereotypes. Read, share and sign the Mind the STEM Gap Manifesto!
Women make up just 34% of researchers in Italy according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD ). The percentage is very low, but it is rising. The Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) is guiding the “Week as a woman scientist ”, created in 2016 by the Bracco Foundation in collaboration with Centro Università degli Studi di Milano (CusMiBio). The initiative, which is aimed at girls in their fourth year of secondary school or technical college, revolves around the six points set out in the #Forwomeninscience manifesto.
For the academic year 2020-2021, Fondazione Bracco Foundation is supporting Scuola Musicale dell’Associazione Jubilate by offering bursaries for classical music students.
The Bracco Foundation and DeAScuola, in collaboration with the “100 women against stereotypes” project (#100esperte), have arranged a new multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral training course consisting of three webinars for teachers and one for students from junior and senior secondary schools.
The partnership established in 2021 between Associazione Il Cielo itinerante and the Bracco Foundation aims to kindle the interest of children in science using innovative and inclusive learning methods and by focusing on city zones suffering from socio-economic deprivation.
Through new digital tools and the embrace of languages and technologies, teaching methods have become more inclusive, innovative and sustainable. This is the premise on which the latest “Ora di Scienza!” call for projects is based.
On 14 February, a few days after the International Day of Girls and Women in Science (11 February), Palazzo Reale became the venue for ”Loving science, nature and peace like Marie and Pierre Curie,” an event with two extraordinary French guests: the physicist Hélène Langevin-Joliot and the planetologist Yves Langevin, who are, respectively, the grandson and great-grandson of Marie and Pierre Curie.
Having participated in the invitation for tenders for the Region of Lombardy’s “TOGETHER” programme, which seeks to provide practical help to young people in difficult situations, Fondazione Bracco was selected to carry forward a project involving young people from all over the region.