The “Pulsar Program” was recognized with the seal “an action INCoDe.2030”, in the area of Inclusion.
The first edition of this program was launched in collaboration with the NTT DATA Foundation. The program aims to reduce gender inequalities in the labor market, particularly in the STEM areas – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – and is also being implemented in Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.
“Pulsar” is an initiative aimed at female adolescents, with high potential, who demonstrate difficulties in achieving their goals. This is an individual mentoring program, in which leading women become mentors to a group of selected young people.
The objective is to work individually with the teenagers, in order to help them discover and enhance their talents, giving them confidence to build their future, through an academic path and hand in hand with technology.
In addition to the mentors, the young women are accompanied by “godmothers”, who will play the role of observers of the change, reporting on the participants’ developments.
The first edition will take place at Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira, in Lisbon, and will consist of group and individual sessions over the next six months.
More information here.