This project is focused on female students with a scientific-engineering background to teach them creativity for innovation and leadership. It aims to create increased collaboration between industry, academia and professional associations to produce a training tool to increase creativity and leadership skills of female engineers. Making Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world is the goal fixed by the European Council 8 years ago. A scientific-engineering background is among the Lisbon Education and Training Progress indicators and it is considered by the Commission for innovation benchmarking among European countries, USA and Japan. Women are underrepresented in lead positions and the European Commission believes that this is a result not only of a lack of skill and talent and that it affects the economical performance of the EU.Creative thinking is at the base for innovation which in turn results in increased competitiveness. The project will consist of twenty partners and 63 students, spread among seven countries, who will be involved in all phases of the project: from collecting information to exploitation of results. Eight countries are represented in the project: Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom. The German partner is WiTEC (Women in Science Engineer and Technology) a European Association with members in 10 European countries, who will be involved in dissemination of results.The training tool will be available on the web in 6 languages: English, Estonian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Swedish. The impact foreseen is on students, organisations and universities. The main outcomes include the following:• Students will increase their employability and entrepreneurship attitude. • Organisations will be provided with a pool of Human Resources to fully exploit their scientific background in a creative way; they will take advantage of the availability of females with a scientific background able to take on a leadership position within the company. • Universities will improve the quality of training, matching the needs of companies and society. • Industry-academia links will be strengthened.
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