Promoter – NTT DATA Portugal
Action – Pulsar program
Description – NTT DATA in Portugal launches the first edition of the Pulsar program, an initiative in collaboration with the NTT DATA Foundation, which aims to reduce gender inequalities in the labor market, particularly in the STEM areas – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – and which is already 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 take on the role of mentors to a group of selected young people. As such, they will 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 will also be accompanied by godmothers, who will play the role of observers of the change, reporting on the participants’ developments.
The first edition of the Pulsar program will take place at Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira, in Lisbon, and will consist of group and individual sessions over the next six months. This is the first edition of a pilot program to be scaled up to other schools in Lisbon and cities.
At NTT DATA we are aware of the gender inequality that still exists in so many areas and sectors and we are committed to contributing to its reduction. Aligned with Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 5, PULSAR is an initiative aimed at high-potential adolescent girls who, for different reasons, have difficulties in achieving their goals. This is an individual mentoring program, where leading women in different sectors act as a role model, allowing young women to discover and/or enhance their talents as a team, empowering the girls to continue their academic path hand in hand given with technology.
A special type of star, the Pulsar, which emits very intense radiation at short and regular intervals and which, in addition, has an intense electromagnetic field. We established the metaphor between this type of star and the mentors, who radiate knowledge and motivation, and the girls, little stars that shine with their own light.
More information here.