CiTIUS promotes the exhibition “#SomosQuen: women scientists close to YOU” on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
From this Friday, the As Cancelas Shopping Centre in Santiago de Compostela will host an exhibition featuring 9 women researchers in the field of technology at different stages of their careers, reflecting on their role as women and scientists at CiTIUS (the Singular Research Centre in Intelligent Technologies of the USC). Their messages are addressed to girls and young women of all ages.
“Don’t settle”, “Nothing is difficult if you like it”, “Search and decide”, or “Dare with me!” are just some of the messages that 9 CiTIUS researchers will send to girls and young women on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. They will do so through the exhibition “#SomosQuen: women scientists close to YOU”, an exhibition promoted by the Singular Research Centre in Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela (CiTIUS), in collaboration with the As Cancelas Shopping Centre.
The exhibition, with free admission and open to all kinds of audiences, is especially aimed at younger female students and can be visited on the ground floor of the shopping centre during opening hours, from 11:00 a.m. this Friday until late afternoon on Thursday 17 February.
Cutting-edge women scientists “just around the corner”
The aim of this initiative is twofold: on the one hand, to serve as an inspiration and help spark new research vocations among girls and young women who have not yet decided on their academic future; on the other, the exhibition also seeks to promote and publicise the scientific work carried out by CiTIUS as a leading research centre, placing particular value on the role of women in the field of technology.
Paula López, deputy director of CiTIUS and one of the participants in the exhibition, stressed the importance of using these commemorative dates to make the work of the centre’s women researchers more visible: “the exhibition seemed to us a good way to take science to the streets, an attractive and accessible idea with which to present being a woman and a researcher as something natural,” she said.
“The presence of women in research, especially in technical areas, is still a minority,” López continues. “For people to see this occupation as something normal, something that happens in your country, in your city, in a centre that is ‘just around the corner’, is positive and helps to convey that idea of normality,” she points out.
In addition to Paula López, the exhibition also features the participation of researchers Dora Blanco, Mariña Canabal, María José Carreira, Ledicia Díaz, Iria de Dios, Faranak Karimpour, Celia Outes, and Silvia Rodríguez.
“Don’t settle”, “Nothing is difficult if you like it”, “Search and decide”, or “Dare with me!” are just some of the messages that 9 CiTIUS researchers will send to girls and young women on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. They will do so through the exhibition “#SomosQuen: women scientists close to YOU”, an exhibition promoted by the Singular Research Centre in Intelligent Technologies of the University of Santiago de Compostela (CiTIUS), in collaboration with the As Cancelas Shopping Centre.
The exhibition, with free admission and open to all kinds of audiences, is especially aimed at younger female students and can be visited on the ground floor of the shopping centre during opening hours, from 11:00 a.m. this Friday until late afternoon on Thursday 17 February.
Cutting-edge women scientists “just around the corner”
The aim of this initiative is twofold: on the one hand, to serve as an inspiration and help spark new research vocations among girls and young women who have not yet decided on their academic future; on the other, the exhibition also seeks to promote and publicise the scientific work carried out by CiTIUS as a leading research centre, placing particular value on the role of women in the field of technology.
Paula López, deputy director of CiTIUS and one of the participants in the exhibition, stressed the importance of using these commemorative dates to make the work of the centre’s women researchers more visible: “the exhibition seemed to us a good way to take science to the streets, an attractive and accessible idea with which to present being a woman and a researcher as something natural,” she said.
“The presence of women in research, especially in technical areas, is still a minority,” López continues. “For people to see this occupation as something normal, something that happens in your country, in your city, in a centre that is ‘just around the corner’, is positive and helps to convey that idea of normality,” she points out.
In addition to Paula López, the exhibition also features the participation of researchers Dora Blanco, Mariña Canabal, María José Carreira, Ledicia Díaz, Iria de Dios, Faranak Karimpour, Celia Outes, and Silvia Rodríguez.