The INSPIRA project is a pioneering project in Euskadi for the promotion of the scientific-technological vocation (STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) among girls.
The mentors accompany students during a period of two months with the aim to:
• Provide new references of nearby women technologists.
• For boys and girls to discover the STEAM professions.
• Raise awareness of the need for the development of the country to occur between men and women.
• Sensitize and guide on the career in technology.
• Make visible and value women technologists.
The schools whose students receive mentoring from CIC biomaGUNE scientists are:
- Deutsche Schule San Alberto Magno, where 5th elementary grade students receive mentoring from the hand of Irantzu Llarena and Susana Carregal,
- Axular Lizeoa, where girls of 6th elementary grade students receive mentoring from Ane Ruiz de Angulo, and IES Hirubide, where girls from the 1st year of ESO receive mentoring from Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi and Idoia Mikelez.
Also, on the 27th of November 2017, CIC biomaGUNE joined the INSPIRA Manifesto promoted by the University of Deusto to demand the opening of spaces for girls and women in science and technology.