InGenias: Women as a Precursor to Technological and Scientific Vocations Noemí Merayo (&) , Maria Jesús González, Lara del Val, and Patricia Fernández Grupo de Comunicaciones Ópticas, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain noemer@tel.uva.es Abstract. A very significant decline in technological and scientific vocations is being experienced in Europe, especially regarding the female sector. In this context, the InGenias Project was born, with the aim of making female uni- versity students and teachers protagonists of future technological vocations. They promote these vocations among secondary students showing a more social and human perspective of technology in society and how technology can improve the quality of life of citizens. Keywords: STEM Á Female careers Á Technological vocations Á Engineering Á Secondary students Á Disruptive technologies 1 Introduction UNESCO in its latest report published in 2019 “Deciphering the code: the education of girls and women Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)”,[1] has underlined the problem of the lack of female scientific and technical vocations. The Unesco Director (Irina Bokova) has warned that the lack of female representation in these sectors “slows progress towards sustainable development”, so “we need to understand the obstacles that keep female students outside the STEM disciplines” and “we need to stimulate their interest from the early years, to combat stereotypes, to train teachers to encourage girls to choose STEM careers and to develop curricula that are gender sensitive and change ideas preconceived”. In this way, since the enrollment of women in Technology and Engineering is becoming a challenge, many proposals in different institutions are carried out in many countries [2–6]. On the other hand, Spain is also currently suffering a significant decrease in Degrees related to Telecommunications and Engineering. Thus, the Of ficial College of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) in the last report (2017) reflected that Telecommunications Engineering is in full employment, since only 4.1% are actively seeking work [7]. Furthermore, according to a report promoted by the World Economic Forum [8], the professions with greater future projection are currently focused on technology and mathematics, followed by Engineering. This trend seems aligned with the Spanish reality. However, these data do not fit with the decline suffered by these Degrees. On the one hand, we believe that Telecommunications Engineering remains unknown to society, despite the development of electronics, communications networks, © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 S. Rodríguez González et al. (Eds.): DCAI 2020, AISC 1242, pp. 139–148, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53829-3_13