Women Stem Up

participants

Participants in the project are:

 

LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY, Linkoping, Sweden (coordinator and project leader).

PANEPISTIMIO THESSALIAS, Volos, Greece. 

STIMMULI FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. 

DIGITAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE, Bruxelles, Belgium. 

Vivian Vimarlund is professor in Informatics. She has acted as a gender lecturer for the Faculty of Science and Engineering during the last 15 years at Linkoping University. She has developed and implemented gender equality opportunities projects and courses in STEM, in close collaboration with educational boards, departments, senior administrators and faculty members.

PhD Malin Wiger is senior lecturer in logistic management. She is the chair of one of the program boards at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Linkoping University, responsible for several engineering programs, which include engineering, bachelor’s, and master’s programs. She runs gender and equality issues for increased gender-aware teaching and to integrate a more gender-aware pedagogy into several technical education programs.

Magda Bakali is a Junior Researcher responsible for projects that focus on gender equality, women’s involvement in STEM and ICT, digital skills and education. She has been trained to be a sexual harassment facilitator in cases of sexual misconduct and she has also received gender sensitivity language training in the higher education context in the United States. Her research experience includes women’s education in Europe and Central Asia and minority women such as Muslim women, in non-Muslim majority countries.

Katja Legisa is the director of the Female Incubator at Digital Leadership Institute Brussels. Katja has developed and delivered the training academy of DLI’s digital female accelerator, inQube.eu, and has driven pan-EMEA uptake of DLI’s award-winning “Move It Forward” initiative. In this context she consults and mentors early-stage, women-led startups, particularly in technology, financial, and strategy areas and with a focus on social and inclusive transitions

Anna Szlavi is a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She has done extensive research on gender and intersectionality, specifically within computing and STEM. She has been leading EU-level projects targeting gender inclusion for several years. She has also given lectures, presentations, and workshops on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), gender-inclusive language, and inclusive design.

Janice Levenhagen began her career as a computer engineer. After earning her MBA in 2010, she began to focus on tech skills and digital literacy for women and girls. She founded and led ChickTech, an international US-based organization focused on supporting and educating girls and women in technology. In 2019, she moved to Europe, earned a second master’s in international development, and began consulting in gender equity and nonprofit strategic planning and operations. She now runs a nonprofit focused on mentorship in tech.

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