Girls@Polimi 2024: 28 female engineering students honoured

The award ceremony for the winning students of the Girls@Polimi 2024 scholarships was held in the Aula Magna Pesenti at the Leonardo Campus. Together with the girls, Isabella Nova, Executive Vice Rector, Mara Tanelli, Rector's Delegate for Diversity and Inclusion, and representatives of donor organizations participated in the event. 

Girls@Polimi is the initiative of the Politecnico di Milano designed to bring girls closer to the world of STEM subjects and encourage their enrolment in Engineering programmes with a low female presence. Students will receive scholarships worth € 8,000 / year each, with the possibility of renewal for the next two years of study, and will have the opportunity to participate in accompaniment, training and mentoring activities.

For this edition, the scholarships were funded by companies and foundations: Analog Devices Italia, Associazione Eugenio e Germana Parizzi, Capgemini, Fastweb, Fellows of Politecnico di Milano US, Inc (FPM US), Fondazione r.e.ACT ETS, Getec Italia, Hitachi Energy, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italgestra, Leonardo, Mediobanca, NHOA Energy, POMINI Long Rolling Mills, SLB Italiana. These are flanked by Alumni Politecnico di Milano and the University itself.