Invitation to Informatica Feminale 2025

The University of Bremen in Germany cordially invites to the 28th Informatica Feminale –International Summer University for Women in Computer Science/Informatics.
From 20th August to 4th September, more than 60 courses in Computer Science, ICT, and Informatics will be offered to women students in computing studies as well as to practitioners in the field. Students from other subjects get to know basic ICT and interdisciplinary course topics. There will be basic, special and interdisciplinary course topics as well as course offers concerning studies, jobs and careers. The Summer University will be on campus in Bremen.

The women´s network Informatica Feminale is a place to exchange about technical and social developments, which we meet in our every-day life and which are designed by ourselves as technical experts. The Summer University wants to give space and time for critical reflections and highly welcomes experimental debates on the relations of technological knowledge and developments in societies. We especially offer teaching, which deal with applications of technical know-how in spaces for work and life (for example within care, education, health, food, household, mobility, social networking, publicity, sports, militarization, etc.) from feminist perspectives.

All, who want to receive information about future Summer Universities, are invited to subscribe to our mailing list. Please send an email to if@informatica-feminale.de.

Companies with gender sensible organizational concepts and successful personal management strategies to promote women engineers to a broad spectrum of leading positions are invited to present their best practices to the participants of Informatica Feminale. There will be plenty of other opportunities to sponsor.

International Summer Courses for Women in Computing

For the Summer University Informatica Feminale 2025 we cordially invite women students from all types of universities and colleges as well as women professionals interested in further training from all over the world! You will experience three weeks of professional studies and establish a network with women having manifold backgrounds in a friendly and stimulating environment at the University of Bremen.

Every year the Informatica Feminale offers compact teachings in computing and ICT.

Entering higher education, developing a student career, transition into labour market and lifelong academic learning are equally in the field of vision. Inter/national lecturers and students meet at the Informatica Feminale in Bremen, Germany to exchange.

Since 1998 the Summer University Informatica Feminale is part of the regular course program of Bremen University and organized by the Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and the Kompetenzzentrum Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik der Universität Bremen (Center of Excellence Women in Science and Technology at Bremen University).

Funding comes predominately from the Professorinnenprogramm (joint initiatives of the German federal state and the Länder), the University of Bremen and from the Faculty.

Awared the Equality Prize of the German Faculty Conference of Informatics Faculties
The German Faculty Conference of Informatics Faculties has awared its first Equality Prize (“Preis für herausragende Gleichstellungsarbeit”) to the Summer University Informatica Feminale of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at Bremen University. The awards ceremony with the laudatory speech by Professor Christiane Floyd is available as video and photos.

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A place for experimentation in teaching

In 1998 the University of Bremen started the first summer university for women in computing: Informatica Feminale is a place for experimentation and professional exchange, with the intention to develop and imply new impulses in Computer Science and Informatics.

The concept of Informatica Feminale was developed at Bremen University and has been transfered several times to national and international places. Informatica Feminale is organized at Bremen on a yearly basis. Every summer 200-250 students participate in some 50 courses.

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