 Well, I'm joined today by Helen Sherpman. She's from the European Commission and she was here to discuss Empowering women to innovate through technology one of the many thematic dialogues going along at Wiesis 2015 today. Miss Sherpman. Hello Hello. Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. Now It's a pretty fascinating field very broad one. So we'll be we'll narrow it down a little bit But what were the issues that came before the meeting today? What were you talking about? We were talking about different gaps for women to access technology careers and skills in different ways We were talking for example about the gaps in in access skills for for technology career paths content to elaborate content and create content in digital and also to access Leadership opportunities and entrepreneurship paths for women and You also had something to offer to that conversation. What is the European Commission doing along those lines? All right We do different things. Of course, we have a broad Technology agenda as such but within that we try to fit very very much the women agenda and one of them is to to Encourage girls and women to go on a on a career path for technology such as so so learning more about how to code. This is one of the the initiatives we had last year 2014 there was we had a EU code week that engaged very much young people and also old people in learning coding and especially girls and women and Over 125,000 participants. We're in there and we're going to follow up that this year 2015 with it with a whole week as well and there's actually linked to to Africa here because just before the EU code week We will have a African code week, which will very much focus on on engaging girls into coding skills and such career paths It's obviously filled with lots of promise lots of challenges and lots to talk about Were you able to in the time that you had together come up with any kind of plan or call for action? Yes, I we had been requested to think about this of course and and we do we do have Action also that we started just recently Because another area that is important that not only that we we create more people That can fill the the the skills gap that is actually there for these technology But also that we encourage the women that are in the field already that have taken on leadership roles that have founded companies startups and Help them to to lift themselves up get get more access to funding Partnerships and so on so we want to encourage these women as well for that We have created a network with the help of European Union funding so we call it we hub women's Entrepreneur the web entrepreneurs network where for the moment is 25 nodes across Europe of of Locations where women will will network together and do exactly this finding partnership getting access to funding and that will expand to 250 nodes over the next two years Well, it sounds like a great program and we thank you for your time today, miss. Thank you very much