On 19 November 2025, the Government of Aragón organized the XV Aragon Investiga Award Ceremony, where members of Work Package 1, Carmen Pérez-Llantada, Oana Carciu, and Rosana Villares, received the 2025 award in the esteemed “María Andresa Casamayor” Gender Perspective category.
The research team is a core component of the consortium behind the DILAN Erasmus+ project. The work recognized by the Aragón Investiga Award is directly related to DILAN’s broader mission of fostering an inclusive scientific environment and enhancing digital literacy.
The “Women for Science” (W4S) research line has been instrumental in securing key European Commission funding to advance knowledge on the challenges and opportunities facing women researchers in the digital age. This synergy ensures that the innovative findings from W4S directly inform the goals and deliverables of the DILAN project connected to Work Package 2’s outputs (videotestimonials and report on Good practices).
The Women for Science (W4S) project is a female leadership project. Its goal is to research, highlight, and promote the role of women researchers in the context of public and digital communication of science. W4S began as one of the lines of a project under the Spanish research project on digital genres, communication and open science (GENCI).
About the award-winning “Women for Science” project
The project focuses on female leadership in science communication within the context of digital transformation. Its main goal is to research, highlight, and promote the vital role of women researchers within the context of public and digital communication of science. To explore this issue, the project has integrated multidisciplinary perspectives (digital humanities, computing, and data science), as well as varied methodologies (surveys, structured interviews, focus groups, case studies, small-scale data mining techniques, and experimental digital writing techniques).
Currently, some of the project’s results are available open access in the prestigious journals of Written Communication and System.