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.

EARMA Early Bird registration extended to the 7th of May 2015

Registration is open for the EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators Annual Conference at Leiden, Netherlands, 28 June - 1 July 2015. The theme of this year's conference is Global Outreach: Enabling Cultures and Diversity in Research Management and Administration. The maximum capacity for the conference is 700, so please book early to avoid disappointment!

Read more http://conference2015.earma.org/registration/701/

LTU Genovate Advisory Board meeting

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:

 


Stereotypes of women and men in research

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

UNINA Workshop on Mentoring

After the Launch of the Mentoring Pilot Programme at UNINA, held on October 27th 2014, a two days workshop for the training of mentors and mentees was held on 2nd and 3rd December 2014. During the workshop, Dr. Caitríona Ni Laoire from the University College Cork (UCC) took two training sessions, one for mentors and one for mentees.

It was a very engaging event for the mentoring participants, due to the interactive style employed by Caitríona. UNINA team thanks very warmly Dr. Caitríona Ni Laoire and all the participants to this event.

Launch of the Mentoring Pilot Programme at UNINA

The Launch of the Mentoring Pilot Programme at UNINA was held on October 27th 2014 in Naples with the participation of the delegate of the new Rector, the Director of the Science and Technology School, Prof. Piero Salatino, and members of the Institutional Advisory Board (CII) of GENOVATE from the academic and top management staff of UNINA and stakeholders.

After a brief introduction of the Coordinator of the GENOVATE UNINA team, Dr. Ofelia Pisanti, and the welcome address by Prof. Piero Salatino, Dr. Ilenia Picardi, Project Manager of the UNINA team, provided an overview of the Mentoring project. During the session, several UNINA and stakehoder representatives had a speech: Prof. Rita Mastrullo, from the Academic Senate, Prof. Caterina Arcidiacono, Rector's Delegate, Dr. Angela Gargano, from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (which is partner of the GENOVATE team for the organization of the Mentoring Programme), Prof. Daniela Montesarchio, from the Naples Women in Science Group (Coordinamento Napoletano Donne nella Scienza).
 

The presentations were followed by a debate, moderated by Prof. Luciano Mayol, Director of the Center for the Coordination of Special Projects and Organizational Innovation (COINOR).

World cafè with the Women in Science Group and GeCATs

On 13th October, the GENOVATE team organized a world cafè with the Women in Science Group in Naples, which is one of the stakeholder of GENOVATE@UNINA, and the representatives of the GeCATs. The aim of this meetings was to discuss on the Code of Practice which we want to present to our academic community. It was a very fruitful meeting!