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Status AustriaBernhard Racz
Reinhold Hawle07.10.2014
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• Status STEM Austria
• Acitivities Austria
• Expectations
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Status Austria
• Strong SME structure (approx. 301k enterprises)• Only approx. 100 large enterprises• Still low interest for girls in STEM
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Activities Austria• Since 2000 strong engagement in IMST
(informatics, mathematics, science and technology) by BMBF – eFit21 www.efit21.at initiative
• IMST3 initiative by University of Klagenfurt on behalf BMBF
http://imst.uni-klu.ac.at/ueber_imst/was_ist_imst/i.uni-klu.ac.at/ueber_imst/was_ist_imst/ttp://imst.uni-klu.ac.at/ueber_imst/was_ist_imst/
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Activities Austria• fForte – an initiative of four Ministries - women in
research and technology• BMWFW – MINT (mathematics, informatics,
science and technics) on Universities• Participation to offer « best practice » in EU funded
science projects – dissemination of results by BMBF
• 10-10-10 by Pollmann, a 300 employee company
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Experience from Needs Analysis:• Retirement in the next years give problems• No interest to increase science experience in
kindergarden and primary schoolswww.spürnasenecke.at
• Difficult to attract girls into science
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Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs
A few facts from the ESSIE study and the last MOE conference in Oslo (Dec. 2012)
• 900.000 open jobs in ICT in 2015
• Only 30% of students are considered as digital competent
• Only 40% of students learn in a digital supportiv schoolhttps://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/survey-schools-ict-education
http://ministerialconference2012.linkevent.no/Background_Note_for_the_Oslo_conference.pdf
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A few facts the Digital Agenda for Europe
Following the Employment Package of April 2012 VP Kroes called for the formation of a multi-stakeholder partnership, the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs, to tackle the twin issues of a projected shortfall of up to 900,000 ICT professionals in Europe by 2020, exacerbated by a decline in computing science
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/grand-coalition-digital-jobs-0graduates.
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Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs
Bernhard Racz, MScENIS Austria
Dr. Reinhold HawleFederal Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs
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