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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and the Ministry of Education of the CARM have taken the lead in the project of the Ministry of Equality 'I want to be an engineer', which will replicate other five universities, with which Murcia will be the first city in which will be held on January 22, a great event to create scientific-technical vocations among Secondary students.

Half a thousand students from 32 secondary schools in the region will attend the event, which will take place in the Víctor Villegas auditorium, for which more than 3,200 applications were received and in which engineers and architects will explain first-hand how creative, cooperative and useful for society is his work.

"The absence of female referents of success has been detected as one of the causes of the low level of technical vocations among young people," explains the coordinator of the Scientific Culture Unit of the UPCT, José Luis Serrano.

Attendees will also enjoy a technological fair in which large technology companies from the region, such as Navantia, Repsol or Sabic, educational programs of the Ministry, such as the yellow cable, its offer of Vocational Training and other initiatives to promote scientific studies will participate. -Technicians such as Talliot and STEM Talent.

Exhibitions about mathematics and about great scientists of history, from the Seneca Foundation, will put the icing on the cake for this free event.

The Polytechnic of Cartagena is one of the six Spanish universities selected to develop the project 'I want to be an engineer', promoted and financed by the Institute for Women and Equal Opportunities of the Secretary of State for Equality.

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Region of Murcia supports and collaborates with the UPCT in this project to promote technological vocations.

A team of engineers and architects of the UPCT have contacted since October all the centers that teach Secondary in the Region of Murcia and have explained in 74 of them the project and the need to increase the percentage of students in technical careers.

The project will continue to provide ESO students with direct contact with Engineering, through internships at the UPCT laboratories and participating in a Summer Campus at the Polytechnic where they will begin scientific research.

Source: UPCT