Girls´ Day 2011
This year APE opened its laboratories and workshops to provide an insight into scientific and technical careers for young girls. On April, 14, thousands of schoolgirls took the opportunity to visit companies and technical departments and universities and to get information on potential professions. APE was the host of ten girls.
The Girls' Day opens up extensive future prospects to a generation of qualified young women with the objective of establishing contacts and drawing attention of industries and the public to girls' strengths.
Pilot projects and campaigns have been launched for about 20 years to change girls' and young women's behaviour patterns with regard to their choice of career and to expand their spectrum of career options. Nevertheless, the number of girls choosing "typically female" careers or subjects of study is disproportionately high. In doing so, they do not fully exhaust their career opportunities. This is corresponding to trade and industry complains about an increasing lack of qualified junior staff in the technical field. The nationwide Girls´ Day expresses a contradiction.