INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT FEMALE STUDENTS

The University of Padua offers a range of initiatives and scholarships to support female students’ access to study and career paths in which they are underrepresented with the aim of closing the gender imbalances found in some disciplinary areas and promoting equality at all levels.

NERD Project: Non E’ Roba per Donne?

This IBM project in collaboration with the University of Padova aims to spread awareness for computer science and digital skills among femalestudents attending the last three years at high school.

The project offers free training meetings and online laboratories, thanks to which students can learn how to design and program apps in an easy, fast and fun way, also experiencing what it means to work in information technology under the supervision of business mentors.

Another goal is to encourage female students to pursue university careers in STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), which until now have been considered purely of male interest. 

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MENTORWIS

As part of Mentor&Me project, MentorWIS, a mentoring platform for future female surgeons, was launched in 2022. 

The pilot project, promoted by the Career Service Office of the University of Padova together with Women in Surgery Italy and Alumni Association, aims to become an important means to promote gender equality in the health system and is addressed to transfer and develop specific professional and soft skills, which are necessary to meet the challenges of those embarking on the path of medicine and surgical specialization.

Further information here

Scholarships

OTB Foundation Brave Women Awards 2023

The University of Padova together with OTB Foundation  (OTB group nonprofit organization), announced the first edition of a competition to award eleven two-year scholarship prizes worth 4000 euros each, to support and facilitate deserving female students pursuing their master’s degree studies in different subject areas.

Who can apply: all female students who have pre-registered for A.Y. 2023/24 in the Master’s degree programs in Government Science and Public Policy, International Relations and Diplomacy, Accounting finance and Business consulting, Applied economics, and Management for sustainable firms.

Further information:  www.unipd.it/premi-studio-studenti.

Soroptimist

The University of Padova, in collaboration with the Soroptimist International Clubs of Bassano del Grappa and Vicenza, launches a competition to award two scholarship prizes, respectively worth 2.500 and 2.000 euros, in order to encourage and support two young women in master’s degree programs related to “STEM”  study area pertaining to the Schools of Science or Engineering at the University of Padua. 

Further information https://www.unipd.it/premi-studio-studenti

Etica SGR prize for doctoral thesis in memory of Elisabetta Villa

The University Center for Human Rights ‘Antonio Papisca’, following funding donated by ETICA SGR, announces a competition to award a doctoral prize in memory of Elisabetta Villa.

The award is reserved for female candidates who have received their doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Padua, during the period from January 2022 to June 2024. Applicants must have developed the best thesis in the area of Vulnerability, resilience, resistance and agency of women in a human rights perspective.

Further information https://www.unipd.it/premi-studio-laureati