Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2020 Winner

Innovactoras


Description

“Innovactoras” started as a social responsibility project of Happeninn. Today it is a platform of innovators women from different realities of the 21st : science, technology, business, education and society. 51 North and South references (16 countries) are already inspiring innovation around the world Objectives: Organizations to have inspiring and current examples of women in STEAM careers, to encourage innovation in their environments. Connects, promotes and supports women innovators. Award a prize to a young Innovactora every year. 100 inspiring Innovactoras of 25 countries by 2020. Sustainable with public private founds

Project website

https://innovactoras.eu/#up


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • AL C11. International and regional cooperation 2020
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Coverage
  • South Africa
  • Spain

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2017

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Women

Replicability

It started in Spain and it was scaled to South Africa including women from southern countries. Nowadays a LatAm collaborative project has been submited for being funded and in case the application results beneficiary of that grant, 6 Latin American Universities will join the project throught a Women in Innovation network to be included as more LatAm innovactoras.


Sustainability

Innovactoras is a social responsibility project aiming to reach at least, one women from every single country in the world.


WSIS values promotion

• Access • Gender• Volunteering


Entity name

Asociación Innovactoras

Entity country—type

Spain Academia

Entity website

https://innovactoras.eu/#up

Partners

- University of Navarra (Enterprise and Humanism Institute) - Navarre´s Employment Service (Government of Navarra) - Fabre Foundation - ANICC (Creative, Innovative and Cultural industries association of Navarra) - Eunate Publishing - Hijas de Jesús Pamplona School Different Universities, SMEs, Asociations and volunteers