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.
Seminar titled 'What is at Stake? Why does gender equality in science matter?' delivered on 14th October 2015 held in Czech Academy of Sciences conference premises, Brno.
The seminar included interactive and thought provoking discussions amongst the 50+ participants to gain insights on matters relating to gender equality at national, institutional, and disciplinary levels. This seminar was received extremely well by the large audience who were actively engaged in discussion, on questions posed by GENOVATE UNIBRAD:
1. What is the status of gender equality...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
2. Solutions to improve gender inequality in science...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
3. Challenges in implementing solutions...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
4. Why does gender equality matter...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
GENOVATE UNIBRAD collected thoughts from group discussions with academics across Europe