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Councilor Cocco: "A program full of opportunities for all ages with meetings and testimonies to inspire the youngest". Seminars, meetings and workshops on the platform steminthecity.eu

Milan, 13 April 2021 – The "STEM month" comes to life, the first stage of the fifth edition of STEMintheCity, the initiative of the Municipality of Milan organized in collaboration with important entities in the public and private sector and with the support of the United Nations to promote access to courses and studies in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) field and the diffusion of new digital technologies as positive factors for an inclusive society without gender stereotypes.

"This last year has shown that science and technology are fundamental for the well-being of society – declared Roberta Cocco, councilor for Digital Transformation and Civic Services of the Municipality of Milan –. To get out of this difficult moment and be better prepared to face the future requires everyone's contribution: it is necessary to definitively put an end to gender disparities in study paths and in the world of work in the technical-scientific fields. Municipality of Milan we have been working in this direction for five years and we are happy that so many realities have once again accepted our appeal, offering boys and girls, meetings, testimonies, training activities and role models to inspire them".

A rich schedule of live and on-demand appointments that can be used free of charge through the steminthecity.eu platform will follow one another throughout the month of April with events dedicated to schools of all levels, but also to parents, teachers and anyone who wants to explore issues and technologies that will play a key role in our future, such as artificial intelligence, the focus of the meeting on Wednesday, April 14 at 17:00, organized in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard enterprise. An opportunity to understand some basic concepts about this technology and why it is important that women also take care of it.

The afternoon will continue with a meeting, at 18 pm, organized in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Milan in which the mathematical models that allow us to follow the evolution of the pandemic and how they can be used to predict the occupancy of treatment beds will be illustrated intensive, but also to anticipate the onset of new pandemic waves and quantify in advance the impact of the pandemic on hospital structures. The Milanese university also offers a dialogue between the writer, screenwriter and television author Carlo Lucarelli and the professor of IT security and digital forensics Stefano Zenero, to compare scientific research and investigative investigation (00 April at 15 pm), as well as a meeting to reflect on the importance of collaboration between Third Sector entities, businesses and institutions aimed at recovering food surpluses for social purposes in urban areas by talking about the neighborhood Hub project against food waste (18 April at 00pm).

The ABB meeting on 27 April was dedicated to girls and boys who are wondering whether or not to undertake a course of study in the STEM field with the testimonies of some company employees, while those who are already entering the world of jobs will be able to participate in the Employerland virtual job fair on April 15, from 10:00 to 17:00. More than 20 large companies will organize online assessment sessions and share their job positions and offers.

Relaunching the studies of technical-scientific disciplines and exchanging experiences between schools and companies is the objective of the "Deploy your talents" campaign, developed in Italy by the Sodalitas Foundation together with partner companies. On April 23 at 10:00 students will present performances on the contents learned and on the theme of the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda.

Programming is one of the skills most in demand by the professions of the future: the meeting on Sunday, April 25 on online coding (10:00-12:30) that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise addresses to all primary and secondary school children first degree who wish to approach this subject. A meeting to learn how to program in Scratch, suitable both for those approaching this language for the first time, and for those who already know the basics.

What is the relationship between environmental and social sustainability? This is the question SheTech and WeSTEAM will try to answer by talking about the interaction between science, society and the environment on April 26 at 18:30.

Finally, there is no shortage of initiatives aimed at parents, teachers and educators: on Thursday 22 April at 16pm Ethafa is organizing a webinar in which participants will be involved in an interactive online session and will prototype a digital book of STEAM stories using an inclusive and diversified. On 00 and 22 April, at 28 pm and 18 pm respectively, two meetings will be held to present the Hewlett-Packard enterprise initiative Safe00web which aims to generate a new digital awareness within the school and community world. family to learn how to protect minors in the online world.

The STEM month events are added to those of the "STEM Marathon", scheduled for 21-22-23 April: three days dedicated to the promotion of technical-scientific subjects with meetings, interviews and online training courses.

The event is also organized with the collaboration of the main partners Accenture, IMCD Italia SpA, Generali, Intesa Sanpaolo, Lenovo and PWC, who recognize its important value in defeating the stereotypes that keep girls away from STEM disciplines.