1. Status Austria Bernhard Racz Reinhold Hawle 07.10.2014 ingenious-science.eu

2. Status STEM Austria Acitivities Austria Expectations 2 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

3. Status Austria Strong SME structure (approx. 301k enterprises) Only approx. 100 large enterprises Still low interest for girls in STEM 3 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

4. Activities Austria Since 2000 strong engagement in IMST (informatics, mathematics, science and technology) by BMBF – eFit21 www.efit21.at initiativewww.efit21.at 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 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/ 4 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

5. 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 5 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

6. Experience from Needs Analysis: Retirement in the next years give problems No interest to increase science experience in kindergarden and primary schools www.spürnasenecke.at www.spürnasenecke.at Difficult to attract girls into science 6 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

7. 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 school https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/survey-schools- ict-education http://ministerialconference2012.linkevent.no/Backgroun d_Note_for_the_Oslo_conference.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/survey-schools- ict-education http://ministerialconference2012.linkevent.no/Backgroun d_Note_for_the_Oslo_conference.pdf 7 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

8. 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 scienceEmployment Package VP Kroes called for Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/grand-coalition- digital-jobs-0http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/grand-coalition- digital-jobs-0graduates. 8 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs

9. Bernhard Racz, MSc ENIS Austria racz.bernhard@gmail.com Dr. Reinhold Hawle Federal Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs Reinhold.hawle@bmbf.gv.at 9 ingenious-science.eu Ministry of Education and Women’s Affairs, AT