Our university values the uniqueness of every individual and encourages gender equality measures, ensuring a welcoming environment to accompany the Politecnico community on its academic and professional journey, as well as promoting STEM subjects among female students.
Actions
- Promoting STEM subjects among female high-school students (Techamp@Polimi, Coding Girls, Enginhering Polimi, Stem in the City, Il Politecnico delle donne)
- Girls@Polimi scholarships for female students who choose to enrol in engineering courses with a lower uptake among female students
- Tax exemption for students with dependent children under 6 years old
- Financial support worth EUR 15,000 for women associate professors and researchers who resume research work after maternity leave (Family services)
- Free crèches for female students, PhD students and research fellows, thanks to the Equal Opportunities Policies (POP) Strategic Plan
Education
- Embracing Diversity
- FOSTWOM: Fostering Women to STEM MOOCs
- Inclusive Knowledge: the teaching and technical-administrative staff receive annual training on diversity and inclusion, also with reference to multiculturalism
- Empowering Women@Polimi and Empowering PhDs@Polimi: empowerment and self-awareness pathways for female students and PhD candidates, in collaboration with SheTech e ValoreD. For the participants a personalised counselling service is available, parallel to the attendance of seminars
- Mentoring with companies: Women Mentoring for PhD Candidates is dedicated to female students enrolled in the PhD programmes of the Politecnico di Milano. Some female professionals working in different companies or universities will guide small groups of PhD students in a training course that will cover important aspects such as women’s leadership, negotiation, team working, skills needed for the world of careers