STEMintheCity is a great initiative being promoted by the City of Milan in order to develop a “STEM-oriented” culture free from gender barriers and stereotypes to help guide young women to studies in fields of science and technology, to promote careers for women in these fields, and to further digital education at all levels. The project started in 2017 and the second edition was organized in 2018. On 2018 STEMintheCity further extended its reach with the creation of STEM+A. The letter “A” here stands for “art” and has been added to the STEM acronym to indicate both how digital is an enabling factor in all education and career development and how the creative, humanistic component is essential in generating new ideas and innovative content. Target. STEMintheCity offered activities for all ages—from elementary school to on through middle school, high school, university and beyond. Creating an alliance with the adults responsible for the growth and education of our youth is important, so STEMintheCity promoted a range of initiatives intended for parents and teachers. Main activities: training days about coding and digital skills for 50 primary and secondary schools; hackathon for young girls and university students; job speed date, session of role modeling; digital empowerment; conference about gender stereotypes for teachers, parents and companies; events about the value of women in STEM careers and female leadership; the presence of women in politics; International opening event with prestigious female role model from science, military defense, institutions, leading companies in digital transformation.

https://www.steminthecity.eu/

• Milan, Italy

• Youth
• Women

STEMintheCity started in April 2017 and now is at its 3rd edition. The initiative contributes to build innovation and to design an inclusive city, change-oriented strategies that are able to anticipate people’s needs, create a fairer society, and provide real opportunities for growth to all. The evolution to STEM+A represented a leap forward in terms of connecting the development of digital skills to a wider range of job fields, from art-related professions as design and restoration STEMintheCity is an event created for the city of Milan. Unique in Italy for structure and program. The success of this initiative has created interest and many other municipalities in Italy would like to be inspired by STEMintheCity. For the first time in Italy, an important Municipality as Milan has directly involved stakeholders, partners, national and international institutions, students (male and female) to spread gender equality and to create a new gender culture. Collaboration between the public and private sectors is a strategically important aspect of the project. In the same way, the partnership between government, volunteer associations, and other public and private-sector organizations was another important driver that made it possible to bring out the many resources of the area and to promote the most significant experiences. There is a concrete measureable impact in terms of participation and follow-up activities. First edition, 2017: +3,000 participants (age: 3-25); 138 speakers, 84 training activities, 5 universities, 54 schools, 45 location, 50 partners. Second edition, 2018: was organized expanding the target to 134 cities of Metropolitan City of Milano and reach +10,000 participants. Target increase of +333%. This last edition,2019: +14,000 participants (age: 3-25), 149 training activities, 7 universities, 118 partners.

The Digital Transformation and Civic Services department wants to improve the services available to citizens and move in two directions, both inside and outside the municipal administration. This process passes through a cultural evolution of the citizen and of the public administration, developing open innovation services that facilitate the life of the citizen and make the public administration of the city more efficient. The department activities are divided in 4 pillars: Digital Education Services Digital Skills Insfrastructure The project STEM in the City intends to develop the Education and Digital Skills pillars STEMintheCity is a great initiative promoted by the City of Milan in collaboration with important realities of the public and private sector and with the support of the United Nation. The principal goals of this initiative are to develop a “STEM-oriented” culture free from gender barriers and stereotypes to encourage young women to study science and technology, to promote careers for women in these fields, and to further digital education at all levels.

By connecting universities and schools, private and public sections with ICTs.