The project of the Eurasian Women's Forum under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation "Women in the nuclear industry: a vector of development"

In the new economic environment, the rapid development of domestic technologies, increasing the level of innovation activity of citizens and training highly qualified specialists to ensure the scientific and technological development of the country in order to strengthen technological sovereignty are of particular importance. 

This opens up new opportunities for unlocking the potential of women in high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries. In Russia, women make up a significant proportion of highly qualified scientific personnel. 

At the same time, in many industries women's intellectual potential is not fully utilized. The National Action Strategy for Women for 2023-2030 identifies increasing women's participation in high-tech industries and popularizing engineering and technical professions among girls and women as an important focus for enhancing the role of women in the socio-economic development of our country. 

According to studies, women are not sufficiently integrated into the labour market associated with the new technological pattern. Increasing the role of women in the scientific sphere, involving them in the field of high technology and innovation, retraining specialists to meet the new requirements of the economy, and implementing human resource strategies in organizations, especially in the high-tech sector, is one of the ways of addressing this challenge. 

Women have significant potential for breakthroughs in the high-tech sector and are able to offer unconventional solutions and creativity. Building international and cross-industry collaboration of professionals will help harmonize the imbalance in high-tech industries, and collaboration will bring together best practices and create a sustainable ecosystem to increase the number of female employees in technology companies.

Project objectives:

- Bringing together female professionals from industrial companies, academic institutions and professional communities to implement joint initiatives aimed at increasing women's participation in high-tech industries.

- Creating tools to stimulate women's professional development and broad involvement of the younger generation in order to increase the share of women working in the technological sector of the economy.

- Increasing girls' motivation for scientific activity and the prestige of engineering and technical specialties through mentoring and presentation of role models of women technological leaders.

- Implementation of the National Action Strategy for Women for 2023-2030 in terms of involving women in the sphere of high technologies and innovations.

- Development of international co-operation of women specialists. Promotion tools

- Organization of events in various formats for effective communication and expansion of the network of professional contacts between women specialists from Russia and foreign countries to present best practices of participation in scientific and technological projects, opportunities for self-realization and improvement of knowledge - implementation of mentoring programmes for the younger generation and development of the mentoring system.

- Expanding the activities of the International Council for the Support and Development of Women in Industry and Technology with the involvement of more experts from various industries.

- Supporting women's projects on various topics, including socially significant initiatives for the development of cities with high scientific and technological potential, including entrepreneurship.

- Conducting research on women's representation in science and technology. Project development plan (roadmap)

- Organization of international mentoring sessions "Women in STEM".

- Organizing an annual international cross-sectoral forum "Women in STEM".

- Organizing international teleconferences of women working in high-tech industries.

- Organizing multilateral dialogues within the framework of the International Council for the Support and Development of Women in Industry and Technology.

- Events at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Eastern Economic Forum and other international venues.