GEAP's implementation:

genovate official siteThe 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.

Gender & leadership at LTU and in academia

In a Stop & Share Session GENOVATE partners discuss on-line gender competent leadership that is part of the WP4 work lead by AU. Today's session is hosted by Ylva Fältholm, LTU.

Gender app on TV

– For us at our department, gender issues are especially important. We have few women attending our programmes and we have yet as hard to get women as teachers, says Jonas Ekman, Head of School of Computer Science at Luleå University of Technology .

Read more

http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Genusapp-pa-TV-1.120759?l=en

Watch the news on TV online

http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/nordnytt/genusapp-ska-ge-jamstalldhet

LTU at the Gender, Work & Organisation Conference in Keele, UK June 24-26, 2014

Welcome to meet Lulea University of Technology (LTU) at

Gender, Work and Organization

8th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference

24th – 26th June, 2014, Keele University, UK

For more information http://www.keele.ac.uk/risocsci/journals/gwo/

 

Gender balance in Information Technology (IT)

The male dominance in the IT industry is well known. When Irene Lundström now graduates in Computer Networking at our university, we take a small step forward. But we have a long way to go before we have gender-balance in the IT industry in Sweden, says Karl Andersson, Associate Professor and Program director for The Computer Networking Programme, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden. See the whole article:

http://www.ltu.se/edu/program/THDNG/Irene-tar-examen-i-datornatverk-1.118984?l=en

Second meeting of the UNINA GeCAT representatives

On 27th of May, the second meeting of all the UNINA GeCAT representatives (Architecture, Biology, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry, Geology, Public Health, Social Sciences) was held. This meeting was devoted to discussing the Mentoring Pilot Programme project prepared by the UNINA team, in collaboration with UCC and the Italian INFN. After the presentation, by Dr. Ilenia Picardi, there was a wide participation in the discussion and several suggestions and comments were proposed.

Genovate news from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Luleå University of Technology (LTU) shall become a more gender-aware organization. Women and men should have equal opportunities in terms of research, innovation and access to higher academic positions. – We need to get the perspective into all our processes, says Ylva Fältholm, professor at the Division of Human Work Science and Dean of the Faculty of Science and technology.

Read the whole article on the website of the university:

http://www.ltu.se/?l=en

http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Nyheter/Okad-jamstalldhet-vid-Lulea-tekniska-universitet-1.115589?l=en