Ambassador Debora Lepre, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, met today the Italian students and alumnae of the Marie Curie program, who arrived in Vienna to participate in the event of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “For More Women in Nuclear”.
The event, organized on the occasion of the celebrations for the International Women’s Day, is bringing together for the first time all the young women who have benefited from the Marie Curie fellowship program and the participants of the Lise Meitner Program, two flagship initiatives of the Agency to help increase the presence of women in the nuclear field, a sector in which they are still largely underrepresented.
Through the two initiatives, strongly advocated by Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and inspired by twice Nobel laureate Marie Skłodowska-Curie and by physicist Lise Meitner, who played a key role in the discovery of nuclear fission, the IAEA is committed to attracting a new generation of women into nuclear science and engineering.
Nine Italian students have already benefited from the Marie Curie Fellowship Program, which is already at its fourth edition and which Italy also financially supports through specific voluntary contributions to the Agency.
The announcement for the fifth edition of the Program will be published in June 2024.
The event “For More Women in Nuclear” will be livestreamed at the following link:
https://streaming.iaea.org/24433
More detailed information on both initiatives can be found at the following link:
https://www.iaea.org/services/key-programmes/together-for-more-women-in-nuclear
