The San Jorge University and ASTI Foundation Launch the Second Edition of STEM Talent Girl in Aragon to Foster Scientific Careers Among Young Women
The San Jorge University and the ASTI Foundation have launched the second edition of the STEM Talent Girl program in Aragon, an initiative aimed at awakening scientific and technological vocations in female students from secondary education, high school, vocational training, and university. The inauguration event took place on November 22, 2025, at the San Jorge University headquarters in Zaragoza, with the participation of educational and local authorities.
Program Features
Scope and Coverage
STEM Talent Girl is directed towards young individuals from different educational levels and offers longitudinal support throughout their educational process. The program involves the collaboration of 500 mentors from all over Spain and operates simultaneously in 12 additional cities, alongside an online modality.
Central Objective
The initiative seeks to inspire, educate, and empower girls to discover high-demand and well-paid professions in STEM fields, allowing them to access firsthand information that facilitates decision-making about their future without being influenced by biases. The program also aims to increase diversity in companies where women are a minority, particularly in engineering and information technology.
Since its inception in 2016, more than 8,000 female students from across Spain have participated in STEM Talent Girl. In its first edition in Aragon, the program enrolled over 150 female students.
According to the First Observatory on Women and STEM published by the ASTI Foundation in 2024, female students in the program who are in secondary education and wish to study engineering represent 24 percent, compared to 5 percent in the control group. In high school, this figure rises to 25.4 percent, compared to 3 percent in the general group. In the area of Information and Communication Technologies, the percentages are 11 percent in secondary education (versus 1 percent) and 10.5 percent in high school (against 3 percent). Furthermore, while only 35 percent of female secondary students wish to choose science and technology in high school, this percentage reaches 85 percent among program participants.
Africa Domingo, the director of the School of Architecture and Technology at USJ, emphasized the importance of creating a network of young STEM professionals to generate significant change. Estefanía Serrano, head of Fundraising and Institutional Relations at the ASTI Foundation, expressed gratitude to the participating educational institutions and families, highlighting that 80 percent of jobs in the coming years will be transformed by the influence of science, technology, and artificial intelligence. María Ángeles Orós, counselor for Social Policies at the Zaragoza City Council, pointed out that the city is becoming a technological epicenter and offers opportunities to foster young talent.
