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.
New projects approved for funding from EU Structural Funds. The project, Gender Contact Point, will be funded 2016-2018. The project initiated and coordinated by Paula Wennberg, Luleå University of Technology is collaboration between academia and ICT industry. The project aims to enhance the exploitation of research results in innovation and gender and enables a more easier access to research results for companies and surrounding society.
Maternity and child health care services staff experience a need for the support of fathers and partners in active parenthood. The project now offers counseling for this group in the health centers that have been selected as pilots for this project. In September 2015 the project was nominated for the equality prize in the Northern Sweden.
The kick-off meeting of a new working group on cultures and diversity in research management and administration was held on November 25, 2015 with Susi Poli (Italy), Olaf Svenningsen (Denmark) and Paula Wennberg (Sweden) as proposers. EARMA (European Association of Research Managers and Administrators) is one of the GENOVATE stakeholder organizations. We also submitted an abstract to the EARMA annual conference 2016 in Luleå.
The objectives of the new working group (WG CD) are
- to gain an understanding of the effects and impacts of cultures and how to cope with these
- to share cultures within the ERA
- to valorise differences in research and in the practice of research management
- to create value through cultural and gender awareness
- to be prepared for possible and/or likely future cultural clashes/challenges
Opening of a photo exhibition of 68 women who are based and active in the county of Norrbotten took place on December 5, 2015 in Luleå. The aim is to present female role models of Norrbotten in the Northern Sweden. Four of LTU's Genovate Advisory Board and core team members are selected to role models: Anna Degerman, Luleå Municipality, Berit Vonstad, Sogeti, Birgitta Bervall-Kåreborn, LTU and Ylva Fältholm, LTU.
LTU Grants Office hosts today an Information Day on SSH at Luleå University of Technology together with Anna Halldén, National Contact Point (NCP) Vinnova. Horizon 2020 aims at including SSH as a cross-cutting issue and consequently it is embedded into each pillar and objective of Horizon 2020. The idea is to fully integrate the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines together with the SSH tackling the complex societal issues of European societies.
The LTU GENOVATE team presents GENOVATE with funding from EU FP7 Science in Society as one of the goods example of ongoing projects. The aim is to highlight the many opportunities for SSH researchers and inter-disciplinary research and innovation in Horizon 2020.
According to this year’s GMMP study women are still under-represented in the Swedish media - despite increased gender equality in the rest of the society. Sweden’s results reach 31 percent 2015, the figure has been about the same since 1995.The Swedish results are included in the international study of Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The study is conducted every five years, and examines how women and men are portrayed in the news for a day.This year,114 countries participated in GMMP making it the most comprehensive study since the start in 1995.Read more about - Who makes the news? http://whomakesthenews.org/articles/initial-gmmp-findings-show-almost-no-improvement-in-women-s-visibility
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