STEM: Girls get involved

Since 2021, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies’ orientation and social mobility activities programme has featured a new initiative that aims to counter another phenomenon that greatly hinders the affirmation of talent and development in the country.

The STEM: girls get involved! project consists of a four-day residential course organised by the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, intended for a selected group of 4th year high school, meritorious girl students whose parents do not have a degree. The project’s goal is that of removing barriers and stereotypes and allowing talented girls to approach scientific studies with an experience that ensures an immersion in STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) through lectures, workshops and group activities.

Since 2022, Il Talento all’Opera Foundation, which strongly believes in the spreading of STEM subjects and in gender rebalancing, has been offering its economic contribution to the School in order to offer a greater number of meritorious girl students with non-graduate parents the opportunity of approaching STEM subjects and the School.