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  Open the heart with TWISTY

  During the TWIST project activities in the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem, TWISTY, the virtual puppet, was talking about science and gender with variety audiences – elementary & secondary school students, adults, ultra-orthodox Jews and women from the Arab sector. It seems that all of them were very comfortable talking about sensitive issues like stereotypes and prejudices about women in science.
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• TWIST experience at Hisa ekperimentov

  All activities and events that we performed during the Twist project were special and original in many ways. We were often surprised by stories of female scientists and their scientific success and by their willingness to share their enthusiasm with the target group of the project.
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• TWIST at Science in Dialogue

  TWIST is presented at the Science in Dialogue – Towards a European Model for Responsible Research and Innovation conference in Odense, Denmark, 23-25 April 2012
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• Night of the nerds at NEMO

  The 9th of October 2011 there a special event was held at NEMO, Amsterdam for adolescents (16 - 20 years old) in the evening. This evening was all about fast and flashy science & technology.
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• Gender Day in Teknikens Hus

  Program for Gender Day Tuesday 8th march - International Women´s Day The 8th of March. Teknikens Hus celebrate Woman in science with activities highlighting science and gender issues. 
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  Dan spolov in Hiša eksperimentov

  Hiša eksperimentov is working on the European TWIST project (Towards Women in Science and Technology) as a partner. As part of the project, we have for the second year running organised the three-day event entitled "Dan spolov".
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  TWISTY Open Space Technology workshop at Citta della Scienza

    The very significant experience of the TWIST project was organise the OST Open Space Technology workshop during three days activities. Organizing an OST is not simple. The first reaction is one of doubt, of scarce understanding of what will be done during the workshop, especially for those who do not have relevant experience and who have never participated in a workshop of this kind. Participating in a non-structured debate is not easy to imagine, but in the end everyone goes away with enthusiasm and a lot of interest in the methodology.  
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• 3 DAYS EVENTS ON GENDER Celebrating Science by/for Women

  7 - 9 MARCH 2012 Città della Scienza, Naples  During the last decades, the gap between men and women in the scientific field is increasingly reduced. However, the gap still ...
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• Mathematician in princess dress

  Teachers Training about boys, girls and teaching. Do you follow the discussion about more male teachers in the classroom and the discussion about the influence you have as a teacher towards both boys and girls? Would you like to gain more insight in the learning strategies of both boys and girls? Would you like to know how to address them to get the upmost effect? We welcome you to join the teachers training on the 28th of March!
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• 3 days event at the Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem about gender & science

  ‘Hamshushalayim' event, Jerusalem's 3 (cold) White Nights in December, focused at The Bloomfield Science Museum on activities highlighting science and gender issues, in order to raise awareness of the under- representation of women in science and technology.
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  Third gender day in HIša eksperimentov

  On October 10th the third gender day was held in Hiša eksperimentov. We further increased our efforts to bring science closer to the general public, and women in particular.
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  VIP Launch of the TWIST exhibition

  Experimentarium in Copenhagen launched two of the TWIST exhibits and gave a foretaste of the third on the 29th September 2011.
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  Gender Day Events to celebrate science of women/to women

  Program 8th, 10th March 2011 Città della Scienza, Naples   European Union is focusing attention on the attitude of current European teaching systems that keep fostering gender stereotypes and invites ...
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  Mother's day in Hiša eksperimentov

  The second gender day in Hiša eksperimentov was held on March 25th - mother's day. In accordance with the first gender day the entrance was free for all mothers and anyone accompanied by mothers.
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  Women's day in Hiša eksperimentov

  Hiša eksperimentov prepared a special programm for the celebration of Women's day 2011 which we combined to be the first gender day in our science centre. As usual we spiced up our activities with a bit of our own charisma and some genuine ideas. It started with the IAT test for all the visitors of the centre. 
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