The GENOVATE Community is a platform which enables GENOVATE partners to share institutional information and case studies, and facilitates the coordination of a buddy system for bench learning.
The GENOVATE Community consist of seven GENOVATE partner institutions; the GENOVATE International Advisory Board; key strategic collaborators and stakeholders and the general public. It is a mechanism designed to facilitate meaningful knowledge exchange across the community at local, national and international levels within each of the partner institutions’ countries, across Europe and globally.
This year’s conference has the theme: Global Outreach: Enabling Cultures and Diversity in Research Management and Administration. Already 650 participants have registered to the event. Welcome to meet LTU in the Track 2 about responsible research and innovation. The LTU team will present and discuss Genovate, LTU’s Code of Practice and how it is implemented at the university. Read more about the programme http://conference2015.earma.org/programme/689/
Track 2.2 GENOVATE; boosting gender equality in academia
Chair: Olaf Svenningsen , University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Paula Wennberg, Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Carina Mattsson, HR Department, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden;
Gender equality is strategically valuable in research and innovation because it is now recognized that
- research excellence requires accessibility, resources and advancement opportunities for the best researchers, irrespective of gender and
- innovation demands the diversity of perspective and input that is possible from a truly diverse pool.
GENOVATE is an EU FP7-funded action research project including seven European partner universities with different institutional and national contexts for gender equality. One of the core goals of the project is to ensure equal opportunities for women and men by encouraging a more gender-competent management in research, innovation and scientific decision-making bodies.
In this dialog seminar, a Code of Practice, a set of recommendations, to boost gender equality in academia that has been prepared in the project with stakeholders will be described and discussed. The Code is designed to facilitate a change process at a university in terms of improved gender equality in research and innovation. The Code includes examples of gendered structures at a university to assist staff to understand how to avoid reproducing stereotypes. The Code is also prepared to inspire staff not only in academia but also in industry to put gender issues on agenda.
Finally, the session will demonstrate practical gender-mainstreaming tools, such as a check-list to support a gender-aware recruitment process as well as a gender app and gender toolbox, also useful when preparing H2020 applications.
How to support more sustainable recruitment processes? How to integrate a gender equality perspective in recruitment processes? How to create an attractive and equal work place? How to increase a number of women in the IT sector?
LTU’s first Genovate Learning Circle on June 10, 2015 attracted both internal and external stakeholders with diverse competencies and experiences. Participants from two universities, companies, a municipality and a funding agency discussed and shared knowledge and experiences on recruitment in academia and other organisations. More pictures of the three-hour interactive workshop are available on the web site http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Om-oss/Genus-och-mangfald/Genovate-Learning-Circle
The fourth Advisory Board meeting was held today at LTU. The board is now expanded with a new member from Luleå Municipality.Today’s meeting discussed the ongoing implementation of a gender-aware recruitment process at LTU after the presentation of LTU’s Human Resources Department. HR's work highlighted in the LTU internal newsletter:
LTU gender researchers, Ylva Fältholm and Fredrik Sjögren, interviewed for a national Swedish newspaper on March 8, 2015.
Read more about stereotypes of men and women in research. A link to the article in Science Magazine about gender distribution in research http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262 "In some fields, success is viewed primarily as a matter of hard work and dedication. But in others, success is seen as requiring a special, unteachable spark of brilliance." Sarah-Jane Leslie
"Broader recruitment with a gender perspective: A gender perspective integrated in the recruitment process will contribute to a sustainable and long-term competence at Luleå University of Technology. Through the EU project Genovate, the university's experiences of a new working method will hopefully contribute to an impact in more organizations." See the news on the LTU home page
http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Bredare-rekryteringar-med-genusperspektiv-1.127607?l=en
LTU Career change their name today to the Career Center. They celebrate the launch with university staff and students, companies and public organisations. This great opportunity to network ended with a panel discussion about "Future labor market - basic industry meets the digital industry".
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