The FREE STEM Fund aims to narrow the gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
The FREE STEM Fund has received foundational support from Optiver Foundation.
Vision
Girls, women, transgender and non-binary people are widely represented in, and empowered to thrive in and advance the STEM sector.
MISSION
The FREE STEM Fund will invest in initiatives that use intersectional approaches to empower girls, women, transgender and non-binary people as changemakers in the STEM sector.
Optiver Foundation is committed to bringing greater diversity to the technology and finance industries around the world. We helped to launch the FREE STEM Fund to create equal opportunity through greater access to STEM education. Read more here.
FREE STEM leverages shared governance and participatory mechanisms to design a fund that is tailored to the needs and gaps within the STEM sector. We also leverage grassroots STEM expertise and voices by investing in projects that prioritise girls, women and other underrepresented groups' access to STEM opportunities.
The Fund will use holistic approaches that take into account their enabling environment, with the objective of narrowing the gender STEM-gap and increasing the number of women, transgender and non-binary role models and STEM changemakers.
Free stem Fund
recipients
The FREE STEM Fund received over 1000 applications in Phase 1 and 229 of those applicants were invited for Phase 2. We funded 27 of those organisations. Click below to meet them all.
Brasil
2023
Role Models and Networks; Careers
Alumna
Alumna ‘s project focuses on undergraduate women from marginalized backgrounds and it is designed to close gender gaps young women
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Brasil
2023
Time and Accessibility; Education and Training
AMALOUNA AUB
AMALOUNA AUB’s project entitled “Empowering girls with STEM and Research Educational Programs” is intended to increase the pool of girls
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Brasil
2023
Confidence and Leadership; Education and Training
AWSc - Arab Women in Science and Engineering forum
AWSc - Arab Women in Science and Engineering forum aims to provide a management course for female engineers. The course
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Role Models and Networks; Careers
Alumna
Alumna ‘s project focuses on undergraduate women from marginalized backgrounds and it is designed to close gender gaps young women
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Brasil
Time and Accessibility; Education and Training
AMALOUNA AUB
AMALOUNA AUB’s project entitled “Empowering girls with STEM and Research Educational Programs” is intended to increase the pool of girls
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Brasil
Confidence and Leadership; Education and Training
AWSc - Arab Women in Science and Engineering forum
AWSc - Arab Women in Science and Engineering forum aims to provide a management course for female engineers. The course
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