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Campus au Féminin 2025 edition
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On February 6, as part of the Semaine Nationale des Cordées de la Réussite, ISAE-SUPAERO welcomed nearly 130 middle and high school girls from the Toulouse area for a Campus au Féminin day. The event was co-organized by the Cordée OSE L’ISAE-SUPAERO and the ISAElles student club.
The aim of the day?
Raising awareness of engineering professions!
What is Women’s Campus?
These days, launched in 2016, are the fruit of a collaboration between OSE the ISAE-SUPAERO and the ISAelles club. They reflect the commitment of the Institute, its equal opportunities program and the Foundation to intensify initiatives aimed at encouraging young girls to go into higher education and scientific fields.
Coming from partner schools in the ISAE-SUPAERO OSE program, participants had the opportunity to discover the engineering profession alongside women with inspiring career paths. They also took part in workshops led by the Femmes&Sciences Association and the ISAelles student club, aimed at deconstructing gender stereotypes associated with scientific studies.
WORKSHOPS TO DISCOVER ENGINEERING PROFESSIONS
This year, the middle and high school girls were lucky enough to be accompanied by their mentors on a tour of the departments on the ISAE-SUPAERO campus. Also guided by ISAE-SUPAERO engineering students, the day was punctuated by a number of workshops designed to encourage encounters and exchanges.
- Stereotype deconstruction workshop: volunteers from the Femmes& Sciences association present gender clichés to help deconstruct them. Students then have the opportunity to discuss these stereotypes with female engineers and students in a variety of activities.
- Parcours de femmes: women engineers who have chosen to take part in the day present their professions and talk to students about their activities.
- Workshops at InnovSpace: discover the campus innovation and creation center where students develop numerous projects.
- Flight simulator workshop: during this workshop, high-school girls experience their first flight and discover a research department at ISAE-SUPAERO.
- Aviary workshop: the high-school girls were able to discover the aeronautical and space vehicle design and operation department through its aviary, a fully-equipped room where drones can be flown in a safe environment.
- Course presentation workshop: a presentation of ISAE-SUPAERO’s courses of study was given to high-school girls, enabling them to find out more about the school’s career options.
- Neuro ergonomics center discovery workshop
- Research department discovery workshop: DAEP, DMSM
- Workshop visit to the Aerothèque: students played a game in the Institute’s library to discover the life of Marie Marvingt.
Between these workshops, a lunch was held with women engineers from science and other fields of expertise. It’s an opportunity for young people to engage in discussion about their career or studies.
A big thank you to the ISAE-SUPAERO Research Departments for welcoming the schoolgirls!
This day is part of a wider program: the “Campus au féminin” (Women’s Campus) program.
The main aim of this project is to create a special link between secondary school pupils, female students and female engineers, by pairing up a female engineer with a female student from ISAE-SUPAERO to accompany groups of 10 secondary school girls.
Join us on March 13 for the 2nd Campus eu féminin day with schools outside Toulouse!