On 19 November 2025, the Government of Aragón organized the XV Aragon Investiga Award Ceremony, where GENCI members received the 2025 award in the gender perspective category for their project Women for Science.
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 National I+D+i Research project on digital genres, communication and open science (GENCI).
Since then, the team has secured significant national and European Commission funding to advance knowledge and open up a new line of cutting-edge research on the practices, challenges, barriers, and opportunities that women researchers face in the context of digital transformation.
This research has been carried out by integrating multidisciplinary perspectives: digital humanities, computing, and data science. Surveys, structured interviews, focus groups, case studies, small-scale data mining techniques, and experimental digital writing techniques have been used. All of this has generated innovative findings in the project’s area of specialization, which will promote a more egalitarian and open science in Aragon and society. This research was carried out in the Digital Science Laboratory of the BIFI Computing Area.
Currently, some of the project’s results are available open access in the prestigious journals of Written Communication and System.