Under the project leadership of Dr.-Ing. Anastasiya Tönjes and M.A. Nele Woehlert, explore.ING is starting its preparatory phase.

The cooperation project, coordinated by Leibniz-IWT, is based at ECOMAT and is designed as a technically-oriented gap year in which female school graduates prepare themselves for ten months after graduating from high school for studies in the MINT field (mathematics, information technology, natural sciences and technology) with introductory courses, workshops, internships, excursions and other events. In addition, participants benefit from a large network and numerous offers for the further development of soft skills. In this way, young women are sustainably encouraged in their interest in the MINT field and are accompanied and supported in their search for their path. The project is scheduled to start in the winter semester 2024/25.

We are excited and looking forward to collaborating with Digital Hub Industry, University of Bremen, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Bremen institutes such as Faserinstitut Bremen, Zentrum für Technomathematik, Fraunhofer IFAM, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) and companies such as Airbus, the ArianeGroup, TOPAS Industriemathematik. The project is funded and supported by the Senatorin für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Europa & the Bremer Aufbau-Bank. On the IWT side, the project is also supported by the speakers M. Sc. Inga Meyenborg and M. Eng. Selina Müller.

For concerns about the project, please feel free to contact woehlert@iwt-bremen.de.