Best Practice from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Programa Dona – Woman Programme Halmstad September 2003
Presentation:
From the Programa Dona at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia we aim to
obtain distinctive objectives. These are:
Objective 1: Our aim is to make sure that secondary school
students know about technological studies.
Objective 2: We want to increase the number of students at
UPC.
Objective 3: When students reach that moment of choosing a
subject that will carve out their career at an academic and professional level,
we want them to know that here at UPC we will give them the equal- ness and
opportunities as all students.
Objective 4: We want to raise the awareness of students at
UPC so that they realise what their role in the working environment will be
like.
Objective 5: We want to integrate the work we do at Programa
Dona with the national and European levels, so that we know and can participate
in experiences that will contribute to new facts for us.
The work we do at Programa Dona from UPC is to try and control
these objectives that we have and present them. (The work has been taken through
the course of 2002-2003).
Like other years we are always trying to get more women to do technological
courses but we seem to learn more and more every year why women from secondary
schools don’t seem to be too taken on this idea. We have to tackle this
problem from different angles.
Students have to challenge themselves so that they can improve the equality
of opportunities at the time of choosing their future academic and professional
lives.
Programa Dona 2003
Objective 1: Make sure that the women from the Secondary Schools
know about the technological courses.
• “Visits to secondary schools”. Coordination with town
halls.
• When students come to making their decision for the academic future
we will push forward these technological studies.
• At the moment we consider it necessary to inform and orient all students
whose age’s range from 16-17.
Objective 2: Increase the names of female students at UPC
• “The Summer of Programa Dona”
• We want the 42 women to have a clear understanding of the university
setting so that when visiting they know there are two campuses at UPC. The Barcelona
and Terrassa campus and they realise the different activities that take place
at each one.
• We want to establish a good communications relationship with the participants
so that they can relate to us their impressions of the courses offered at UPC.
Objective 3: Make sure students understand where they stand
in the working environment
• Course “Characteristics of a leader in a company”
In the month of February, Programa Dona at UPC wanted to thank the Socrates-Grundtuig
Programme for supporting then and organising the following course:
• The characteristics of a leader in a company. To show the students
how to gain equal opportunities.
The aim of this course is to give women who are in their final years of the
course and about to enter the working environment support. We want then to see
if they have the potential to become leaders and give them a global vision of
the actual situation a woman has in the world.
24 women came to this course. They were in their final years and came from
the 11 technical schools situated at UPC. The learning modules were shared out
between expert professors. The studies were about coming into the working environment
and the differences between the female and male races. We also had three engineers
who came and they explained their working and personal experiences to us. This
helped us a great deal and helped us to find what modules to cover.
The course lasted for 30 hours and we un-covered the following modules:
• Women in the working environment
• Relations between the female and male races and how they work
• Promotions of the resources available to women
• Experiences of women
Objective 4: We want you to know the work we do at the Polytechnic
University of Catalonia so that you gain equal opportunities.
• We’ve edited new materials
• Materials available to secondary school students
• We’ve edited a new web of Programa Dona
We have a web link for these secondary school students “La UPC a prop”.
We have this web so that secondary students and other people who may be interested
in informing or orientating themselves are able to communicate with the university
itself. www.upc.edu/donaupc/aprop
Objective 5: Integrate the work of Programa Dona with national
and European ambitions.
Projects on which we’re working:
• FINVOC (Find and Develop the Hidden Intelligence in Vocational Students).
It’s been promoted in Denmark through the Leonardo Programme.
- All the people that have taken part in this project have found a lot of findings
during the academic year of 2002-2003. Finland, Ireland and Germany are the
countries that have found these European findings and have decided on the tasks
that were needed to be done. Their work has taken place in Wetzlar, Germany.
Ireland, Sweden, Germany and Catalonia as representatives have presented a new
course on the methods of Multiple Intelligence for professors of secondary schools.
- In October 03 we are going to meet up in Sweden to see how Denmark has advanced
in these plans.
• GRUNDTVIG (Women Learning for an Active Life). This has been promoted
in Italy by the Cramars Company through a Grundtvig-Socrates Programme. It was
created through some modules that women were studying at the UPC. (See objective
3 course: “Characteristics of a leader in a company).
• BETSY (Benchmarking as a Tool for Realising Equal Pay). This has been
promoted through Sweden inside the Programme Relating to the Community Framework
Strategy on Gender Equality.
• LOUPE. We have just started this project and it is being promoted in
Holland by the VHO Company through a project called Leonardo.
• PREFACE (Preparing Female Students for Academic Entrepreneurship). Sweden
are the leaders of this project and this has taken place at Halmstad University,
which is also through the Leonardo Programme. We are trying to address the existing
needs of women who are in interested in studying technological courses, especially
in the sectors of science, engineering and communication. We are trying to motivate
women to create their own businesses in these sectors.
• At the moment all the people who are integrated in the FOCUS Groups
are at this moment preparing a meeting at the end of September in Halmstad.
Here we will discuss and share ideas and see what results we come up with.
Presented projects of 2002-2003
• European Evaluation of Hypermedia – Promoted by Coopeartiva Cramars
Itália through the Sócrates Programme-Minerva de la Unió
Europea.
• Women Entrepreneurs - Promoted by Cria, SL-Grupo Promocions (Barcelona),
through the Leonardo Programme in the European Union.
• You are a woman, do not be afraid of computer – Promoted by the
academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz (Poland) through the Socrates-Grundtvitg
Programme.
• NEXT Generation Machines – Promoted by Fatronik (Spain) through
the Integrat Programme.
• Women Deciding – Promoted by the Asociación de Mujeres
Empresarias through the Equality for Women and Men Programme.
• SET-TOP Women – Promoted by the Programa Dona at the Polytechnic
University of Catalonia through the equality of women and men programme.
We hope this will have helped you to understand our project and us a little
better.
This is how you can find us and how to get there.
Margarita Artal Serrat
Cap de L’Oficina de Promoció i Orientació
Server de Comunicació Institucional de la UPC
C/Jordi Girona, 31 ed. TG
Barcelona 08034
TEL: 0034 93 401 7713
Email: www.programa.dona@upc.es
Web: www.upc.es/donaupc/cat/index.htm
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