Our 2021 edition of Women Founders took place on November 25th from 18:30 to 19:30, again this year online.  This annual event organised by Women In Digital Empowerment (WIDE) is the opportunity to discuss with successful women who embrace their entrepreneurial adventure and inspire others. A panel of inspiring and talented young women from the […]

The Hackathon “Restart for female digital starters“, part of the Erasmus+ Move It Forward+ project, took place on Saturday, November 13th 2021 at the Technoport SA in Belval.  Move it Forward+ is an Erasmus+ project that aims to support women who want to be entrepreneurs. Indeed, women’s entrepreneurship has been hit hard by the pandemic […]

Starting in 2017, we took part in The “Gender4STEM” project which has been recognised in 2020, as an example of good practice by Erasmus+ at European level for its awareness-raising and teacher training tool on the issue of equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education  in schools. As a continuation of the project, […]

Made In Women is a capacity building Erasmus + project, which was designed to explore opportunities regarding women’s role in the entrepreneurship world. The main aim is to support vulnerable women by unlocking their entrepreneurial and digital skills.  WIDE is happy to partner with participating organisations to support them with training and support related to entrepreneurship, digital […]

On the 29th of June, as a final event of the Erasmus+ Public Makers project, WIDE had the opportunity to organise the “Open Data for Impact” conference, at the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg focusing on the use of Open Data as a way to empower youth and for citizens to create societal change. Public Makers […]

European Day for Women in Digital is initiated by the European Commission in collaboration with several member states, to raise awareness towards the opportunities for women in the digital field.  For this first edition, we partnered with “Ministère de l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes” (MEGA) and Digital Luxembourg. Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, and Minister of Equality between Women and […]

The entire WIDE’s team has kept busy since the beginning of 2021! We are still working on various interesting Erasmus+ projects involving open data, STEM, women entrepreneurs, coaching, non-formal teaching methods and schools. We are also organising several online trainings and activities about our core fields, entrepreneurship, coding and programming. Spring will be a busy […]

As part of our Erasmus+ Public Makers project, the consortium planned a series of 4 webinars during the month of March. Organised in the framework of the #OpenDataDay, the aim of these webinars was to raise awareness regarding the use of Open Data tools and possibilities. The first webinar of the series organised by WIDE […]

For the fifth edition of Women Founders, we decided to go digital! The first-ever online edition took place on November 26th with the support of the MEGA (Ministère de l’Égalité entre les femmes et les hommes) and the BIL (Banque International du Luxembourg) and with our partner, Silicon Luxembourg. Our team worked very hard to […]