Objective IRIS (Interest & Recruitment in Science) addresses the challenge that few young people (women in particular) choose education and career in science, technology and mathematics (STM). Women represent the greatest recruitment potential to STM; moreover, a higher participation from women may expand the ways of thinking and working within this area and contribute to gender equity. To understand and respond to this challenge, diverse causes and cures must be sought, ranging from school experiences and youth culture via higher education STM curricula and recruitment efforts, up to research department culture, PhD choice and employment patterns. IRIS aims to contribute to understanding and improving recruitment, retention and gender equity patterns in higher STM education. 1. On what priorities, values and experiences do young people base their educational choice? - How may youth's educational choice be interpreted through sociological perspectives on late modern societies? What makes many women turn away from STM? - Which considerations determine choice of PhD research topic for female and male STM students? 2. What are the success factors for efforts aimed at recruiting more (female) students to STM? - What features of STM education, in secondary school and at university level, influence recruitment of (female) students? - What are the effects of STM recruitment initiatives? 3. In what proportions, and for what reasons, do STM students opt out of STM education? - Are there differences in opt-out-rates between countries, institutions and genders? The main instrument will be a questionnaire to be completed by first-year students. All partners will contribute to instrument development, data collection and analysis, each with a specific focus. Questionnaire data will be complemented by literature reviews and smaller quantitative and qualitative studies. Central stakeholders will be brought into the work and results will be disseminated widely. Keywords curricula gender equity girls interests mathematics priorities recruitment retention science study choice technology Programme(s) FP7-SIS - Specific Programme "Capacities": Science in society Topic(s) SiS-2008-2.1.2.1 - Influence of the perception of science on study choice Call for proposal FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITETET I OSLO EU contribution € 306 857,00 Address Problemveien 5-7 0313 Oslo Norway See on map Region Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Lars Bernhardsen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all KING'S COLLEGE LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 132 918,00 Address Strand WC2R 2LS London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Paul Labbett (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS United Kingdom EU contribution € 143 429,00 Address Woodhouse lane LS2 9JT Leeds See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber West Yorkshire Leeds Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kathy Brownridge (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Inovacijsko-razvojni institut Univerze v Ljubljani Slovenia EU contribution € 113 616,00 Address Kongresni trg 12 1000 Ljubljana See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Slavko Dolinsek (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data OBSERVA ASSOCIAZIONE Italy EU contribution € 128 376,00 Address Viale a fusinieri 65 36100 Vicenza See on map Region Nord-Est Veneto Vicenza Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Massimiano Bucchi (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Denmark EU contribution € 174 388,00 Address Norregade 10 1165 Kobenhavn See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ivan Kristoffersen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data