Useful Links

There are numerous free resources available to support and encourage women in STEM fields.
Here are several valuable links and websites that can provide guidance, free materials, courses, support, networking, and more:

For Girls

Better Internet for Kids: The EU strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+) aims to improve age-appropriate digital services and ensure every child is protected, empowered, and respected online.
Intelligence Training Journey: Intelligence isn’t fixed – it’s trained. Master faster learning, sharper thinking, better memory and decision-making – all through expert-based 10-minute lessons, designed to boost your intelligence every day.
How to Protect Your Teen’s Mental Health: This guide explains how to protect your teen’s mental health by strengthening their online safety. It highlights key risks like cyberbullying and harmful content, encourages healthy digital habits, and advises parents to stay involved in their teen’s online life.
Her Maths Story: We are women mathematicians that want to empower young women through stories and blog entries to pursue studies and careers in maths, spark their curiosity and transmit enthusiasm for technical subjects. The idea to create a platform like Her Maths Story developed steadily by swapping ideas among a group of friends & colleagues working in the field of applied mathematics.
Base44 is an AI-powered platform that lets users build fully functioning apps in minutes: With the free plan, you have access to all core integration types, allowing you to build fully functional applications with user authentication, data storage, and more, all at no cost.
No more silence, speak up, act for all women and girls: Women’s rights are human rights. We stand firm in our commitment to gender equality, women’s rights, and empowerment for all women and girls and will continue to work closely with the government and civil society partners. Investing in women and girls is always the right thing and smart thing to do.
International Girls in ICT Day 2025: This year, the global celebration was co-hosted by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Arab States regions as a hybrid event, which featured a live link between Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and Nouakchott, Mauritania, along with distinguished panellists from around the world, live-streamed for a global audience.
Girls in Tech: Is an Accenture initiative dedicated to inspiring girls and young women to consider a future in technology, and help students, school leaders and parents understand what a career in tech means today.
Become a STEM ambassador to inspire the future workforce: Why not empower tomorrow’s workforce by becoming a STEM ambassador? ‘Tackling Climate Change’ is a 40 or 55-minute classroom-based engagement designed by EngineeringUK’s Head of Environmental Sustainability Mike Hardisty, to be delivered by Climate Ambassadors or STEM Ambassadors.
8 Organizations Helping Girls & Women Build Careers in Tech: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve rounded up a few awesome organizations helping girls, women, and non-binary folks break into tech, foster relationships and community, and ultimately build successful careers.
Women Entrepreneurs Poised For Growth: Women entrepreneurs have long faced challenges in starting, growing, and scaling their businesses. Despite these challenges, they have persisted and made significant strides in recent years. Despite concerns about inflation, interest rates, and the potential for recession, women entrepreneurs feel optimistic about 2024 and expect substantial growth and increased revenue.
Women in Climate: Women are fighting to address the impacts of climate change in every sector—as scientists, philanthropists, legislators, tribal leaders, and CEOs—and leading major victories for our planet.
Acodemy: This is a coding school in Austria where children between 5 and 12 years at 6 venues in and near Vienna learn to code with fun and creativity.
Black Girls Code: An organization that helps African-American girls ages 7-17 learn to program and take charge of their future, mainly through workshops across the country.
Codecademy: Codecademy is a place for you to learn about different coding languages and the making of websites and apps. You can also use this website together with students 12+ years
CodeCool: With 5 Campuses (in Budapest and Miskolc in Hungary, Krakow, and Warsaw in Poland, and in Bucharest in Romania) launched in 2014 this is the biggest coding venture in CEE Region. Codecool has since 2020 raised €12.5 million capital and has plans to operate 10+ campuses by 2025. “Codecool’s 12-month, intensive, practice-oriented programming course is a unique proposition, there is no other course like this at competitors on the local market at the moment. The method is proven: 98% of the more than 1.000 Codecool graduates have already landed an IT job”.
CoderDojo: The community of 2340 free, open and local programming clubs for young people, founded in 2011. Ten years after 58,000 young people are being creative with technology with the help of 12,000 volunteers in 115 countries.
CodeEd: A program that teaches computer science to girls in underserved communities, starting in middle school. They run classes in Boston, New York, and San Francisco.
Code.org: Code.org has a one-hour-long tutorial that is aimed at kids, but will teach adults the basics of computational thinking. Code.org also launched the annual Hour of Code campaign in the US, which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world.
Commonsense.org: The 48 Best Apps and Websites for Learning Programming and Coding.
Cyphercoders: We teach coding lessons for kids through exclusive themes that help children understand the role that technology plays in science, industry, art, architecture, and much more. From 6 to 12 years we ensure every child learns at a pace that’s right for them, in a range of coding languages, and they are rewarded with certificates at each level.
Digi Pippi: A digital platform and activities for girls in Denmark aged 7-13 years to increase their interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math, and STE(A)M careers. Find role models, volunteers, and gaming clubs.
A Comprehensive Look at Women in STEM: This article will explore both historical and modern women in advanced science and math fields, the many obstacles they have faced, and strategies to support girls and women who want to make a difference in their areas of interest.
EdSurge: Founded in 2011 EdSurge is today at the forefront of reporting on the major changes and their consequences in the world of education through award-winning journalism, research, and analysis.
Europe Code Week: Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative and an annually recurring event that aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way… This year #CodeWeek will take place: from 8-23 October 2022 – join us or organize an activity – sign up here: https://codeweek.eu/login.
Girls Day Nederland: Tijdens Girls’ Day openen door heel Nederland bèta-, technische, IT-bedrijven én technische of IT-afdelingen van bedrijven hun deuren voor meisjes van 10 tot 15 jaar. Girls’ Day 2022: meer dan 6000 meisjes bezoeken zo’n 200 bedrijven ook deelnemen aan interessante activiteiten, maken kennis met vrouwelijke medewerkers en leren meer over bèta/technische werkzaamheden. Girls’ Day laat meisjes de onontdekte wereld van bèta, techniek en IT van dichtbij beleven.
Girls Go Circular: The EU-funded Girls Go Circular Project aims to equip 40 000 schoolgirls aged 14-19 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills by 2027 through an online learning program about the circular economy. The online learning platform developed in the framework of the project – the “Circular Learning Space” – offers students the option of choosing between different learning modules on topics like e-waste, climate change, food, or robotics. These modules are based on a learning-by-doing approach, transferring knowledge and skills through an interactive, challenge-based structure.
Girls Who Code: The EU-funded Girls Go Circular Project aims to equip 40 000 schoolgirls aged 14-19 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills by 2027 through an online learning program about the circular economy. The online learning platform developed in the framework of the project – the “Circular Learning Space” – offers students the option of choosing between different learning modules on topics like e-waste, climate change, food, or robotics. These modules are based on a learning-by-doing approach, transferring knowledge and skills through an interactive, challenge-based structure.
Girls Who Code: An 8-week summer class teaching programming to high school girls in New York City. The girls take trips to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare and work on a final project that tackles a challenge in their community, like recycling.
Hello Ruby Bookseries: Hello Ruby is the world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computing, and coding. Hello Ruby: Adventures in Coding has been published in over 30 languages, including Japanese, Korean, Dutch and even Finnish. Here you can find also Classroom and Community Resources, TEDEX links, and lesson plans.
ImagiLabs: Join us in building the world’s mobile-first community for teenage girls interested in tech!
Khan Academy: KhanAcademy provides information and exercises both for teachers, parents, and students. A great way to start is by watching KhanAcademy’s video introduction to programming.
Lær kidsa koding: The Norwegian Coding Community – find courses, coding clubs, EU partners, and a lot of fun.
Koodi2016: A programming website for Finnish Teachers. The Koodi 2016 booklet includes everything you need to know about programming as a part of the new curriculum.
RailsGirls: A global, not-for-profit volunteer community born in Finland and founded by Linda Liukas.Get paid to contribute to Open Source for 3-months! Participate in the Rails Girls Summer of Code. Open-sourced guides for organizing events @ guides.railsgirls.com.
Raspberrypi.org: Computer coding for kids and teens: find games, music, robots, and fun with digital art. And dozens of projects with a focus on animals, cybersecurity, music, photography, robotics, space, wearable technology, weather, and much more. On any level: 1)Creator 2)Builder 3)Developer 4)Maker.
Raspberry JAM: Community events in Français, Français Canadien, Nederlands, Deutsch, Italiano and 日本語.
Recursos en español Sobre Ciudadanía Digital: The US site K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum includes Spanish translations of our student and family materials directly within the English lesson pages.
SKOOL – The Hungarian Coding Journey: Since 2014 Skool has become a synonym for innovative and inspirational technology training for young girls in Hungary. 800+ tech volunteers and 30 cooperating partners have until today with 90.000+ hours of training supported 6000+ youngsters and have during endless meetups built the Skool Community.
Stevens institute: Famous women in computer science. Some of the most significant achievements in information technology and computer science are courtesy of women. Without the contributions of women such as Ada Lovelace, Katherine Johnson, and Margaret Hamilton, some of the technological advancements society enjoys today may not have been possible.
Tech Girls: A non-profit that hopes to inspire and educate young girls to pursue careers in technology, through events, classes, and interviews.
Women.Code(BE): A Belgian national voluntary organization founded in 2017. In 2022 we are launching a curated job board where women and minorities can find code-related internships and jobs of all levels all over Belgium.

For Business

Women in Cybersecurity – Resources and Insights: In today’s digital-first world, cybersecurity is one of the most critical and fastest-growing fields across every industry. Skilled cybersecurity professionals are in high demand. Yet for many students, the cost of education remains a significant barrier to entering the field. The Center for Cyber Safety and Education, the charitable arm of ISC2, helps remove financial barriers for students pursuing a degree in cybersecurity.
Advanced Innovation Challenges- Pilot: EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges aim to support high-risk, demand-driven deep tech innovation with transformative potential especially in areas where there is extensive research but lack of commercial uptake.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders: In our pursuit of fostering diversity and equity in the tech industry, Women in Tech® Global is dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs and leaders. Through our business initiatives, they offer a range of impactful programs and opportunities.
Attio is a quite modern and highly customizable CRM, made with flexibility at its core: While many CRMs have rigid structures, Attio lets businesses create custom objects and attributes that match their specific workflows.
Powering the connected world with IoT: TechEx Global is where IoT strategies take shape and real-world applications come to life. Over two days in London, 8,000+ professionals, 200+ expert speakers, and 150+ technology providers gather to showcase, discuss, and accelerate the adoption of IoT.
OPIT Online degrees for future leaders in Technology: Begin your journey in the world of technology, where cutting-edge knowledge and innovation shape your future. Discover endless possibilities that empower you to explore the exciting frontiers of this dynamic field.
Equip your team with skills for today — and tomorrow: Access tools and features designed to get results. Build technical expertise and hands-on experience across your team with interactive courses and guided paths in a wide range of in-demand domains.
B2B Marketing Live Returns – Excel London: B2B Marketing Live is the go-to destination for marketers looking to stay ahead of the curve. With over 4,000 industry professionals attending last year, it has become the premier hub for networking, learning, and innovation.
Gender ruling offers clarity after years of ambiguity: After years of argument and dispute about the meaning of gender, the watchword of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling has to be clarity. Equality law has been made clear with the unambiguous statement that the term “woman” refers to a biological woman and does not include biological men who identify as women.
The #1 AI Meeting Assistant: Never take notes again. Get transcripts, automated summaries, action items, and chat with Otter to get answers from your meetings.
You have ideas. Gamma brings them to life. Powered by AI. Gamma is your AI design partner for creating effortless presentations, websites, social media, and more, so you can focus on what you do best.
How to Promote Events – 8 Tips That’ll Boost Registration: 33% of event professionals consider event marketing a blocker in their event planning process. And yet, how would you drive your event’s success if you do not know how to promote events successfully? Although event marketing is a massive undertaking, with the right strategy …
Social Responsibility, Technology and AI: Female Entrepreneurship Facing Artificial Intelligence in the European Union Countries. Artificial intelligence (AI) carries the risk of widening gender inequalities due to the digital divide, while simultaneously promising to equalise the situation for women through the gender digital dividend.
How can organizations prepare for AGI?: The theoretical nature of AGI makes it challenging to pinpoint the exact tech stack organizations need. However, if AGI development uses similar building blocks as narrow AI, some existing tools and technologies will likely be crucial for adoption.
How the EU can help you find a job: A key benefit of EU citizenship is the EU’s principle of free movement of workers. EU rules make it easy for you to work in another EU country and protect your social security rights once you’re there. You don’t need to worry about seeking a work permit in any EU country, whether you live in the country you work in or not.
EWA: acts as a bridge between various stakeholders in the ecosystem, including government bodies, corporations, accelerators, women entrepreneurs, and investors. It facilitates partnerships and collaborations that benefit women in business.
Experimentation for Startups: Growth Through Data Analytics in 2024 – The need to collect data becomes paramount from the very first day of a startup’s operation, as data stands as an indispensable tool. A founder’s vision is certainly a powerful starting point, but data provides the objective insights needed for strategic decision-making.
Flot Ai: Write, Read, Memorize, With Al at your side: Flot is your AI partner, seamlessly blended into your daily workflow, enhancing your writing, reading, and memorization effortlessly. Flot unmatched support across apps, browsers, email clients, docs, tools, etc. It’s like Notion AI, but with the flexibility to use it anywhere on your desktop.
LearnWorlds: From digital products to marketing and selling tools, get everything you need to build a profitable business, all in one scalable platform. Beautiful themes for your course player and flexibility for free, paid, private, drip-fed or curated course pathways. Effortlessly convert your videos into exceptional experiences with automatically extracted transcripts, quizzes, and tables of contents.
Women On Top: WoT is an organisation working for the economic and professional empowerment of women and for gender equality and inclusion in the workplace. Our mission is to help ensure equal opportunities for all women, through empowering them and creating positive change in their social, educational and professional environment.
Canva: Design made easy, and free. Create amazing visual content with no design experience. Start by yourself, or invite others to collaborate. Design anything with thousands of free templates, photos, fonts, and more. Bring your ideas to life with Canva’s drag-and-drop editor. Share designs easily, with a simple click.

For Education

Union of Skills: one year of progress in education: Education is the engine of Europe’s competitiveness. One year ago, the European Commission launched the Union of Skills to ensure that every learner, worker, and researcher has the tools they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
European Commission´s STEM and ICT initiatives and resources: Do you want to improve your skills connected to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)? Or are you passionate to teach or build a business connected to information and communication technology (ICT)?
Tech and AI Education: Technovation’s project-based AI curriculum makes AI-skilling meaningful and engaging. Learners use AI and other technologies to create solutions to problems they care about, guided by lessons that teach them resilience, problem-solving, and adaptability, as well as coding, AI, and entrepreneurship skills.
European Women in Mathematics: is an international association of women in mathematics in Europe. Deeply aware of the challenges faced as a member of a minority group, we focus on fostering and sustaining a welcoming community for women but also explicitly welcome individuals from the LGBTQ+ community, people with illness or disabilities (visible and invisible) and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups to find support and fellowship within our activities.
The history of women’s mathematics education: Every mathematics educator today has probably heard that in the old days women could not study mathematics, and moreover, that back then it was actually said that women cannot understand mathematics – that the female mind is supposedly not equipped for it.
47 Fully funded global research opportunities: Internships, Scholarships & Fellowships for 2025 – 2026. Whether you’re applying for a PhD, Master’s scholarship, postdoctoral fellowship, or research internship, this curated list features global opportunities in Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia across disciplines.
Be a part of the largest mathematics gathering in the world (JMM): The Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) is the world’s largest gathering of mathematics professionals and enthusiasts. The American Mathematical Society (AMS), in collaboration with 16 partnering organizations, will host this exciting annual event.
Microcredentials in vocational education and training (VET): Microcredentials hold promise for connecting people’s skillsets with labour market demands in a rapidly changing world of work. Various publications by CEDEFOP help to understand the opportunities offered by microcredentials.
The school of the future – 42 Porto: 42 is among the best coding schools in the world, with over 15.000 students in 25 countries. Learning at 42 is entirely free of charge and doesn’t require any academic degree or coding experience. You only have to be at least 18 years old or be a high-school finalist to apply. The school’s practical approach, based on peer-to-peer collaboration, guarantees both excellent technical training and the development of valuable soft skills, such as the ability to work in teams, problem-solving, adaptation, determination, and resilience.
America’s Best and Worst Colleges for Women in STEM: In the 52 years since the enactment of Title IX—the federal law prohibiting discrimination in education on the basis of sex—women have made tremendous strides in closing educational gaps that once seemed insurmountable. Women now make up about 60 percent of college students in the United States and earn 56 percent of law school degrees.
The Economic Governance for Growth 2 (EGG 2): Seeks to support good governance and growth, through enabling investments in education, entrepreneurship and innovation, while fostering the growth of market-oriented capabilities for a knowledge-based development.
A stronger voice young people: The European Commission gives young people a stronger voice in EU policymaking as a legacy of the European Year of Youth!
Astia: A not-for-profit organization that offers paid, week-long programs to help female entrepreneurs in technology, life sciences, and clean tech to learn skills for revenue generation, sales, and fundraising. Includes a support network of over 200 investors and 300 startup executives.
Girl Develop It: Technical workshops for female programmers held around the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. They aim to create a supportive environment where women can join the discussion and show off their skills. Courses are also available online.
Hackbright Academy: A 10-week training program for women in San Francisco – half learning, half doing. Applications for the fall program are due in August, and it costs $6,000.
Skillcrush: A site targeted at women to help them learn technology, including tech terms, Ask Ada (named after the first programmer), and other articles.

For Accelerators & Investors

FEMALE FOUNDERS FUND: Golden Seeds. They invest in exceptional women-led startups – and build community among investors who recognize the potential of these companies. Investing in the exponential power of exceptional female talent.
Female Founders, the biggest and fastest-growing community for women in tech in Europe: FFX is not a conference. It’s a curated experience where women show up honestly, connect deeply, and collaborate intentionally. It’s a movement reshaping the European tech landscape and pushing it toward true equality.
The World Gold Council, Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality: The World Gold Council is proud to announce its support of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), having recently become a signatory of this important initiative to promote gender equality and empower women in the workplace, community, marketplace, and wider society.
MSCA COFUND 2025: The aim of the action is to spread the best practices of the MSCA including international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary research training, as well as international and cross-sectoral mobility of researchers at all stages of their career.
Women in Tech Conferences You Need to Attend in 2025: Women only comprise 26% of STEM professionals. Sure, the ratio is increasing, but there’s still a lot of work to do. Women in tech conferences, summits, and symposiums can empower aspiring professionals and help established ones grow further. This blog lists the best Women in STEM Conferences for 2025.
Empowering Diversity in Venture Capital: European Women in VC is a community of over 1000 senior female venture capital investors from all over Europe and beyond. Depending on geography, female cheque writers represent only between 5% and 15% of angel and VC investors, while female founders receive only 2% of VC money. We are on the mission to change this status quo!
Setting up a European Company (SE): If you have a business and want to expand to another European country, you could consider creating a European Company. The European Company – also known as SE (Societas Europea in Latin) – is a type of public limited-liability company that allows you to run your business in different European countries using a single set of rules.
UNDP Careers: Take this voluntary self-assessment to get valuable insight into your work expectations and whether it is a good match to some aspects of the work environment at UNDP!
SHRM Talent Conference & Expo 2024: During this conference, you will have numerous opportunities to connect with and learn from the brightest minds in recruiting and talent management, refresh your best practices, and discover how to reach untapped or underleveraged talent pools while retaining your high performers.
Golden Seeds: A firm that invests in early-stage companies with a female founder/CEO or executive. They also offer business training to entrepreneurs and investors.
NewME Accelerator: A 12-week mentorship program in Mountain View for startups led by a minority founder (African American, Latino, or female).
Springboard: Their “Forum Program” is an accelerator with two months of coaching for women-led businesses. They also offer pitch practice and educational programs to learn how to fundraise.
Women Innovate Mobile: A three-month mentorship program in New York City for mobile-focused startups with at least one female founder. They offer $18,000 in funding in exchange for 6 per cent equity.