18–20 Sept 2025
Kiel
Europe/Berlin timezone

The Physics Project Days - A workshop to promote gender equality in physics

19 Sept 2025, 11:15
12m
LS13-61

LS13-61

Talk Equity, ethics, and empowerment Parallel

Speaker

Anna Benecke (UCLouvain)

Description

The Physics Project Days are a four-day workshop for female high school students to encourage them to study physics, but above all to give them the self-confidence that they are capable of doing physics. Through hands-on experimentation in various physics disciplines, including particle physics, laser physics, plasma physics, and nanoscience, participants engage with cutting-edge research topics. The Physics Project Days undergo a rigorous evaluation to ensure its effectiveness
and won the equal opportunity prize of the University of Hamburg in 2020. As of today, the Physics Project Days happen in four different locations: Kiel, Hamburg, and Aachen in Germany, and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium. The main elements of the workshop, as well as selected results
of the survey will be discussed.

Primary author

Anna Benecke (UCLouvain)

Co-authors

Andreas Hinzmann (CMS (CMS Fachgruppe Searches)) Prof. Dietmar Block (CAU Kiel) Franko Greiner (IEAP, Kiel University) Jerome de Favereau (UCLouvain) Marie Hein (RWTH Aachen University) Roman Kogler (DESY FH, CMS)

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