Category: Sofia Science Festival

SHE is SCIENCE – Ukraine

SHE is SCIENCE is an educational art project, organized by STEM is FEM with the  support of the international organizations’ UN Women in Ukraine and the United  Nations Children’s Fund in Ukraine (UNICEF). 

With this project, we want to introduce you to Ukrainian female scientists of the XX  – XXI centuries. Science shapes the course of the modern world. And Ukrainian  women have made a significant contribution to its development. Moreover, the  stereotypes that “serious science” is not a woman’s business are long gone. 

Meet these twelve amazing women and add one more item to the treasury of the  reasons to be proud of Ukraine! Perhaps their figures will inspire you just as they  have inspired five talented modern illustrators to create these portraits.

Each of the portraits is accompanied with an essay that won in the national competition SHE is SCIENCE. The essays were chosen among 561 texts written by girls aged 14 to 21 from all over Ukraine. All essays are presented in translation into Bulgarian.

The project is a part of the UN Women’s campaign “Generation of Equality” which  promotes gender parity among young people and provides women’s leadership in  technology and innovation.

STEM is FEM thanks colleagues from all over the world for supporting the educational art campaign “SHE is SCIENCE”. Together, we draw public attention to science “with a female face” and break stereotypes that working at STEM is a “male” business.

The general partner of the project is Roosh, a startup support company in  Ukraine, the project’s communication partner is the agency of strategic  communications TRUMAN. 

STEM is FEM is a charitable educational project aimed to promote technical specialties among Ukrainian schoolgirls.

The exhibition is presented in partnership with the Ukrainian Embassy in Bulgaria.

Just like every year the festival venue will turn into a real science fair for you to explore and meet researchers and university students as they reveal to you their incredible experiments, some of which you will be able to repeat at home. Don’t miss glimpsing into their festival labs to find out what it takes to make a discovery.

• Discovery zone and Science zone – DIY analysis of the food we buy, or rose oil and our own skin; what equipment do we need to see the beauty of inorganic compounds and much more.
• Big Bang zone – brace yourself for spectacular chemistry and spontaneous open ended encounters with science outdoors.
• Exhibitions area – find out about twelve remarkable Ukrainian women in science, and more.
• Science bookstore – buy the latest science books and get some of their authors to sign them for you.
• Science in the city – with our partners we are putting together a list of new destinations and venues

Check the entire programme of events in English, French and Chinese by days.

Check the events in English, French and Chinese in alphabetical order.