.:: Welcome to ESTIA-Earth

ESTIA-Earth is a programme of the European Commission/ Directorate General for Education & Culture/ Higher Education: Socrates-Erasmus Thematic Networks. ESTIA-Net was initiated in September 2003. After completing the 1st year, the network has been successfully renewed for 2 more years.

The main objectives are to build up a thematic network, focused in creating women-friendly interdisciplinary postgraduate education in Electrical Engineering, Computer Technologies and Applied Sciences.

The network aims at increasing awareness about gender bias issues in education, informing and motivating young women, leading women to their educational and career paths, and studying the potentials for implementing a new interdisciplinarity-based postgraduate curriculum. ESTIA-Earth mainly targets female students, young women deciding their future education and career, women executives who need postgraduate education on new technologies, women who start a new career, women immigrants.

Main activities include research into the number of women students and academic staff in Universities, development of a mentor's curriculum, organisation of a mentor's seminar and info days, identification of existing interdisciplinary courses and assessment of their impact, implemenation of a Web site and an information system for perspective students, design of the interdisciplinary postgraduate women-friendly curriculum and dissemination.

ESTIA-Earth is coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens, Greece and includes 64 participants from 30 European countries in total.