Girls Go Circular is an EU-funded education project that equips girls aged 14-19 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills through an online learning programme on the circular economy. Available in 16 languages, this initiative has already trained 26,000 girls in 23 European countries.
At the core of the project is the Circular Learning Space – an online learning platform that offers students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the circular economy while acquiring digital and entrepreneurial competencies.
The project’s methodology is based on a learning-by-doing approach which engages students in different activities such as online research, entrepreneurial role-plays or challenge-based exercises. Students work in groups on a variety of hands-on activities to find solutions to major societal challenges (the use of plastics, fast fashion, smartphones, climate change, health, urban mobility, robotics, etc.). The goal is to empower girls to become agents of change in the digital and green transition and enthuse them in STEM disciplines despite the gender stereotypes attached to such fields.
The project contributes to gender equality policy objectives and, more specifically, to Action 13 of the Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 – Encourage women’s participation in STEM. Girls Go Circular is coordinated by EIT RawMaterials, with the support of the EIT Community and the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport, and Culture (DG EAC).
Find out more at: https://eit-girlsgocircular.eu/ or write to us at girlsgocircular@eitrawmaterials.eu.
Education plays a vital role in ensuring students of all ages are equipped with the key skills and knowledge to apply circular thinking in their chosen careers and, of course, in their lives.
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