The world needs more girls like you
International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the UPV
11 February 2025
Exactly 10 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly established 11 February as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
Throughout this week, many activities are taking place to highlight the work of women working in the STEAM fields (Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics). All with one goal: to help generate female role models who can contribute to the choice of these fields as professional careers.
We invite you to discover them all in each of the activities that, from ACOM UPV, we have prepared for 11F!
Dreams fulfilled
Valery Naranjo Ornedo
Valery was a very formal and hard-working child. She dreamed of being a teacher and never gave up. Today, she is a professor at UPV, and she has recently been appointed ambassador of the Official College of Telecommunications Engineers to promote vocations for women in telecommunications
Listen to what she has to say to that little girl:
Mª José Viñals Blasco
As a child, she dreamed of knowing everything about the Earth: the countries, the oceans, the cultures… That little girl didn’t know it yet. Still, years later, she became a professor, a member of the academic staff at the School of Architecture at the UPV, and a researcher at the PEGASO Research Centre.
And MªJosé Viñals has something to say to that little girl:
Verónica Saiz Rubio
Who would have said to that little girl, with her ponytail and wide smile, fishing rod in hand, that she would become a researcher at the Agricultural Robotics Laboratory at the UPV? Little Verónica Saiz Rubio, this is a message from the woman you have become:
Francisca Ramón Fernández
Restless, curious, with an overflowing imagination and a bright future. That girl who read so much is now a researcher in the Urban Planning Department at UPV, and she has something to listen to:
Concha López González
When she was just a child, the Three Wise Men brought her an architecture game that opened a world of possibilities without her knowing it at the time. Today, she is a researcher at the PEGASO Research Centre and she has dedicated these words to herself:
Marisa Carrió Pastor
Little Marisa lived surrounded by books. Her infinite curiosity, which led her to ask a thousand questions, shaped the woman she is today, the woman who has become a researcher in the Group for the Analysis of Speciality Languages at the UPV. Listen, Marisa, to these words:
Ivana Gasulla Mestre
That girl looking at the world with wide-open and curious eyes didn’t imagine at that time that she would be recognised as one of the 100 world leaders in the field of photonics. Little Ivana, listen to this message from the woman you have become:
“Dear little one.”
Podcast
To mark 11F, we are launching this piece that brings together the messages that some UPV researchers have sent to their ‘little selves’, those little girls who dreamed big and science and research their lives.
More projects:
They talk about science
Their challenges, their role models, their experiences… Ten women researchers from the UPV and one from the UGR – honoured by Dones de Ciència – star in a new season of Ellas Hablan de Ciencia.
“Dones de ciència”.
41 murals to highlight and pay tribute to nationally and internationally renowned women scientists, an initiative of the UPV in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
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