Five female voices have starred in the colloquium organized by the School of Engineering of the University of Navarra at campus in Madrid. Most of them, alumnae of the School, share their passion for science and the hope that in the future the presence of female talent in these areas will be easier and have a greater impact.

The five protagonists of colloquium belong to the 25% of female students who decide to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers and develop their professional careers in this field.

Paloma Grau, deputy director of the School of Engineering at the University of Navarra, who holds a PhD in Engineering Chemistry from the University of Navarra, began colloquium by referring to the Women For Science and Technology platform , for which she is responsible at campus in San Sebastián. "The platform was set up to create chains of support and for our students to see that there are also women leaders in the technology sector, as you can be".

The colloquium has put to discussion several questions: Why are women less interested in technical careers? What does female talent bring to organizations? The goal of this meeting among professionals from the technology and university sectors, most of them former students of Tecnun, has had as goal to make visible the potential of female talent in organizations and technical sectors.

"Companies demand engineers and women cannot be left out of this Industrial Revolution".

The director of the Women and Engineering program of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Sara Gómez, broke the ice with a statement: "Companies demand engineers and women cannot be left out of this Industrial Revolution". In this sense, Gómez has talked about the influence of the Education, what children learn in their family, at school, but also from what they see in the media. "Working only with algorithms does not go so much with women , because we are more about human relationships. But you have to see that this code and this software development is related to the social".

"The importance of diversity in organisations".

Rocío de Garcillán, Industrial Engineer from the University of Navarra, and Head of Cabin and position at AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE, mentioned the enormous value of diversity in organizations, since diversity financial aid helps to solve problems in a global way.

"It is important that we work in diverse teams, of men and women, because we have different ways of working and thinking. It is not possible to have only men at the management level, not least because consumers are also different.

"I was the kind of girl who would put a radio together and take it apart again as a child. I loved maths".

Amaia Astigarraga, Industrial Engineer from the University of Navarra and current Manager in Advisory at EY, started her exhibition acknowledging her love for science and technology since she was a child. "I was one of those who assembled a radio and took it apart again. I loved physics, astrophysics, mathematics. And I decided to study engineering at Tecnun. Without a doubt, it was a very good option that furnished my head in a different way". Astigarraga added the importance of having role models in society and in the family, "who teach you that you can achieve all your dreams". Along these lines, Sará Gómez nodded with determination and optimism: "There will come a time when we will have grandmothers who will be engineers".

Silvia Soler, the fourth speaker of colloquium "Mujeres ingenieras", acknowledged that she wanted to do Fine Arts but that it was her parents who supported and motivated her by telling her that if she wanted to, she could study engineering. "Now I would love my daughter to be one because I am very grateful for the mental structure that the career has given me," she confessed with a smile. Soler is the current Expertise Hub director at ISEM Fashion Business School, and passionate about fashion and her work. She was director of development Materials at Loewe until January 2019, and has now decided to do a thesis at ISEM and "refund so everything she has learned and I have taught her people during these years".