2020_01_24_noticia_FYL_innovacion_femenina

The Ibero-American Program of Science and Technology for the development (CYTED) has selected, in the category of Science and Society, the project of the University of Navarra "network Iberoamerican innovation and training to strengthen the impact of women in innovation ecosystems (WINN)".

Coordinated by Professor Mª Cruz Díaz de Terán, member of the group of research in Recent History (GIHRE) of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the academic center, the project WINN has as goal "the creation of a network to make visible, recognize and strengthen the female impact in innovation ecosystems, development contributing to the achievement of some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as Education Quality (4), Gender Equality (5) and Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (9), included in the diary 2030", explained Díaz de Terán. 

More than thirty researchers from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Spain, including several members of the group de research en Historia Reciente (GIHRE), are participating in this 4-year program project. development It also has the partnership of the network Innovactoras, which promotes innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through current female leaders from different fields and disciplines.

A civic, socially engaged and committed university manager

The agents with whom the network WINN will work and to whom the results of the project will be transferred will be universities, public bodies, associations, companies, university students, educational centers and the media. "Both for its objectives and the breadth of its target audience, the project WINN has an unquestionable social transcendence, which will make it possible to recognize a civic university, socially manager and committed to the diary 2030", said Díaz de Terán.

The Ibero-American Science and Technology Program for the development (CYTED) seeks to promote cooperation between Ibero-American entrepreneurs, researchers and experts in the fields of science, technology and innovation for the development of Ibero-America. Since its creation in 1984, more than 28,000 entrepreneurs, researchers and experts have participated in the Program. CYTED is included among the Cooperation Programs of the Ibero-American Summits of Heads of State and Government.