Understanding and Providing a Developmental Approach to Technology- UPDATE

1. Understanding and Providing a Developmental Approach to Technology- UPDATE SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY [Science and Society] [PRIORITY TITLE: Structuring the ERA] FP6-2005-Science-and-society-16

2. UPDATE: WP5 • WP5 : Objectives • Study on the motivating factors and possible barriers to technology careers, • Developing new ways of encouraging female students to careers in technology

3. UPDATE: WP5 • OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES: • 1) The identification of the motivators, at each educational stage that led female students to technology education/ professional careers; • - Country perspective (each partner) • - Comparative analysis at the cross-national level (Doina’s group) • 2) The identification of the barriers, at each educational stage, that discouraged female students to technology education/professional careers; • - Country perspective (each partner) • - Comparative analysis at the cross-national level (Doina’s group)

4. UPDATE: WP5 PARTNERS • 1. University of Jyväskylä • 2. University of Glasgow • 3. Teacher Training University -Institute of Aix-Marseille • 4. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi • 5. Ovidius University Constanta • 6. University of Tallinn • 7. Dortmund University of Applied Science, Ada-Lovelace-Mentoring-Association • 8. University of Koblenz, Ada- Lovelace-Project, • 9. Competence Center Technology, Diversity and Equal Chances

5. UPDATE: WP5 PARTNERS • 10. Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation • 11. Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences • 12. State College of Education in Vienna • 13. Regional Institute for Educational Research • 14. Aristotle University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering • 15. Central University of Complutense de Madrid • 16. IDEC S.A

6. Demographical/statistical data and information (for each country) I. The general set of the demographic data to be collected: • Total population + the structure by sex, age cohorts • The active population • Number and the percent of women in the active population. • Number of women employed in active women population • The absolute number of unemployed women in the active population and in the active women population

7. Demographical/statistical data and information (for each country) II. The set of the specific data and indicators, - to be collected under this objective: • The absolute number of women graduates in your country. • The percentage the graduate women represent in the active women population/and in the total active population. • The distribution of women according to graduation qualification (head count). • Absolute numbers of women engineers/ICT/physicists etc., by institutional sector: education, industries, research institutions, commercial companies (head count). • Percentage of women engineers/ICT/physicists/etc by institutional sector (head count).

8. Partner 1….16 • Dimensions choused • Data collecting methods • a) Questionnaire/structured/semi-structured interview. • b) Case studies(2-4). • c) Interviews (non-structured) with teachers/engineers. • d) Sampling.

9. Partner’s/country brief reports on motivators and barriers • 1-2 pages