Empowerment for girls in IT and technology

Why doesn’t anyone here want to become an electrical engineer?…

Women and girls are greatly underrepresented in technical professions in Austria - this is also reflected in the career aspirations of many participants in our youth education project Jugendcollege StartWien.

The new internal project “Empowerment for girls in IT and technology – gender-sensitive career orientation and placement” therefore wants to inspire girls and young women for technical careers and thus open up an area with enormous future career opportunities for them.

The goal is to create awareness, showcase role models, and stimulate interest in girls and young women to try something new, thereby expanding their range of possibilities.

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JuCo has got talent – JuCo goes opera!

Standing on a real stage for once! This dream will come true for five participants in our Jugendcollege StartWien project this summer! The actor and director Cornelius Obonya and the director Carolin Pienkos visited the Jugendcollege and casted five Background actors for the opera production “Der Liebestrank” at the Opera Burg Gars.

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