{"id":260,"date":"2020-12-13T19:35:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2021-08-23T07:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T07:21:48","slug":"about-womencourage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/about-womencourage\/","title":{"rendered":"About womENcourage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>About womENcourage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>womENcourage\u2122<\/strong> is an ACM Celebration of Women in Computing, was initiated by  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/acmweurope.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACM-W Europe<\/a> and aimed at connecting women from diverse technical disciplines and encouraging them to pursue their education and profession in computing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It brings together undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academics and engineers from Europe and beyond, to present and share their achievements and experiences and discuss pressing issues of women in the computing profession.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>womENcourage 2021 is to be held in Prague, Czech Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The slogan of the event this year is <strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Bridging Communities to Foster Innovation<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong>. In an increasingly technology-driven world and a rapidly changing economic environment, computing field\u2019s innovation and creativity cannot be cherished to its full potential if it is formed by homogeneous expertise, represented unevenly only by a fraction of the population. To foster innovation, we shall stop compartmentalizing scientific progress by disciplines, and encourage innovation across boundaries.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Past Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Previous womENcourage conferences were in <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baku, Azerbaijan<\/a> (2020, virtually) with the slogan \u201cThe Equation Has Two Sides\u201d,  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rome, Italy<\/a> (2019) \u201cDiversity Drives Societal Change\u201d,  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2018\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belgrade, Serbia<\/a> (2018) \u201cCreating the Future Together\u201d,  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona, Spain<\/a> (2017),  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/archive\/2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linz, Austria<\/a> (2016) \u201cCrossing Borders\u201d,  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/archive\/2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Uppsala, Sweden<\/a> (2015), and  <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/archive\/2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester, United Kingdom<\/a> (2014). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-1024x652.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-1536x978.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019-327x208.jpg 327w, https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1920x1222-womencourage-2019.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About womENcourage womENcourage\u2122 is an ACM Celebration of Women in Computing, was initiated by ACM-W Europe and aimed at connecting women from diverse technical disciplines and encouraging them to pursue their education and profession in computing. It brings together undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, academics and engineers from Europe and beyond, to present and share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/260\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womencourage.acm.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}