- This audiovisual series includes testimonies by 24 female researchers from the University of La Laguna and will serve as a model for young female students in the Canary Islands.
- Ten schools in Tenerife will participate in the associated educational program.
Fundación Cepsa will take part in the educational initiative `Chicas con Cienci@ULL’, organized by the University of La Laguna and its General Foundation, through its Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (Cienci@ULL), which is also supported by the General Directorate of Youth of the Canary Islands Government.
The project covers the second season of the informative audiovisual series `Chicas con Cienci@ULL’ and a program of educational activities associated with it for the 2021/22 academic year. The main objective is to promote scientific and technological vocations among young women in the Canary Islands, improve their academic performance and increase their interest in pursuing higher studies that will enable them to achieve a better professional future.
This edition of the audiovisual series will feature the testimony of 24 female researchers from the University of La Laguna belonging to different scientific and social fields: Biomedicine and Health; Energy, Biodiversity and Environment; Science and Technology; Science and Society; and Arts and Humanities.
It comes as a continuation of the first season, in 27 episodes, released in 2020 on the Cienci@ULL YouTube channel (CienciaULL UCCI), which already has over twelve thousand views. The series is part of the scientific communication actions program of the European project MacaroNight 2021 and 2022.
In addition, Fundación Cepsa will support the associated educational program, which will be taught at 10 middle schools and high schools in the Canary Islands during the school year, in two sessions: September-December 2021 and February-May 2022. The program consists of different activities, such as orientation and motivational presentations by ULL researchers, scientific workshops and a school contest of scientific projects tutored by doctoral students from the University of La Laguna. In the last edition, nearly five hundred young people from 8 schools in Tenerife participated.