Increasing the Number of Female Students at the Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

The Faculty of Engineering, University of Szeged organized twice in the period between 1 November, 2018 and 31 January, 2019 an event called „Increasing the number of female students in the field of natural sciences and engineering”, which has been accomplished as a subproject – called AP 1 Services to help students graduate; AP1_MK Developing a program at the Faculty of Engineering to reduce dropout in STEM – of an application EFOP-3.4.3-16-2016-00014 with the title ”The innovative development of the educational and service performances of University of Szeged in order to get prepared for the challenges of the labour market and the international competition”. The purpose of the events was to make engineering sciences and trainings of the Faculty of Engineering more appealing for girls in secondary schools, thus increasing the number of female students at the Faculty in the future.