Description:
The CO-INSPIRA Workshop, is a face-to-face Equal.STEAM workshop consisting of i) a panel discussing Perspectives for attracting and retaining women and girls in ICT fields, ii) a hands-on Kanban activity for solving practical problems, and iii) a co-creation activity to define future activities for the INSPIRA program.

Target Audience:
Although the event is primarily aimed at students and faculty from the University of Coimbra, the general public can also register to attend.
The panel will be in English and the rest of the event will be held in Portuguese.

Date:
26 April 2023 | 14h00-18h00

Location:
Department of Computer Engineering, Room A5.1

Program
2:00pm | Opening

Fernando Boavida, Director of the Center of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra

Paula Alexandra Silva, INSPIRA Program Coordinator, Department of Informatics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal

2:15pm | Panel: Perspectives on attracting and retaining women and girls to the ICT fields

Panel Guests:

  • Bara Buhnova is Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics in Brno, Czech Republic
  • Laura Kovacs is Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics at the TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • Laura Giarre is a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modeno, Italy
  • Karima Boudaoud is Assistant Professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France.

Panel Moderator: Catarina Silva, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal

15h15 | Coffee break

15h30 | Let's get agile? (with Scrum and Kanban)

Activity facilitator: Catarina Reis, Associate Professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão do Politécnico de Leiria and Head of Research and Development at VOID Software, S.A..

17h30 | Reflection on previous activities and exercise of co-creation of future objectives

18h00 | Closing