Online vote for Excellencia Awards 2007 now open
12 March 2007 - 30 June 2007
Austria
For the third year, Innov.Europe Epita and Microsoft France and their numerous partners within the Excellencia Committee launch the online election for the Excellencia Awards, a contest for Women involved in hi-tech. The aim of this prestigious award is to underline how women succeed in new technologies while building a balanced personal life.
Gender equality is an issue. It is also true in New Technologies. Although women are more and more to use new technologies (computers, the Internet, mobile or IP phones, digital devices...) there still a minority in the industry that provides those goods and services, and further less in the corresponding fields at school or the University.
Created in France, with an objective to be extended to Europe, the Excellencia Awards are a yearly contest which reward girls and women highly successful both in their professional technological career and in their personal life. The objective is to show that a woman, with an engineering occupation or function, can really succeed and can also have a balanced personal life. The Excellencia Awards have been created and settled by a committee including Innov.Europe Observatory of Innovation and Information Technologies in Europe, French engineering school Epita (Ionis Group) and Microsoft France.
Candidates were asked to apply in one of the five categories: fundamental research, applied research, engineer at the provider/vendor, engineer at the user, Excellencia Award for young girls candidates to an engineer career. On February 8 th 2007, the Excellencia Jury selected a short list within each category.
Those “Finalists” now appears on Excellencia Awards Web site. The general public has now the opportunity to select the best profiles in each category. The laureates will be disclosed on October 15th during the Excellencia Award Ceremony 2007 which be held at the Palais de la Découverte, a famous science museum in the heart of Paris.
The Excellencia Awards sponsors and partners (see http://www.excellencia.org(opens in new window)) include French institutions, NGOs focused on Gender equality in Science or Engineering, Professional organizations, IT or technology providers, and HR or recruitment companies. As in 2005 and 2006, the French Ministry for Social Cohesion and Gender Equality and the National Service for Women Rights support the award process.
Gender equality is an issue. It is also true in New Technologies. Although women are more and more to use new technologies (computers, the Internet, mobile or IP phones, digital devices...) there still a minority in the industry that provides those goods and services, and further less in the corresponding fields at school or the University.
Created in France, with an objective to be extended to Europe, the Excellencia Awards are a yearly contest which reward girls and women highly successful both in their professional technological career and in their personal life. The objective is to show that a woman, with an engineering occupation or function, can really succeed and can also have a balanced personal life. The Excellencia Awards have been created and settled by a committee including Innov.Europe Observatory of Innovation and Information Technologies in Europe, French engineering school Epita (Ionis Group) and Microsoft France.
Candidates were asked to apply in one of the five categories: fundamental research, applied research, engineer at the provider/vendor, engineer at the user, Excellencia Award for young girls candidates to an engineer career. On February 8 th 2007, the Excellencia Jury selected a short list within each category.
Those “Finalists” now appears on Excellencia Awards Web site. The general public has now the opportunity to select the best profiles in each category. The laureates will be disclosed on October 15th during the Excellencia Award Ceremony 2007 which be held at the Palais de la Découverte, a famous science museum in the heart of Paris.
The Excellencia Awards sponsors and partners (see http://www.excellencia.org(opens in new window)) include French institutions, NGOs focused on Gender equality in Science or Engineering, Professional organizations, IT or technology providers, and HR or recruitment companies. As in 2005 and 2006, the French Ministry for Social Cohesion and Gender Equality and the National Service for Women Rights support the award process.