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.
Seven out of 17 new professors who were installed last week at LTU are women. Maria Udén was installed as a professor of Gender and Technology.
Twenty years ago LTU had no women professors. In Sweden as a whole, the corresponding figure at the time, 1994, was seven percent. Today the proportion of women in Sweden who are full professors is 24 percent and at LTU 17 percent.
The strategic initiatives that have taken place at LTU in the recent years have been successful, initiatives such as time and conditions given for successful women to conduct research and engage in research development programs. At LTU we have also ongoing projects to sensitize gender and equality in recruitment processes of LTU.
- Women who became professors this year had happened anyway, but without our strategic initiatives it had certainly taken much longer time, says Ylva Fältholm.
Read more http://www.ltu.se/ltu/media/news/Rekordmanga-nya-professorer-ar-kvinnor-1.123140?l=en
A workshop on social innovation organized by Malin Lindberg, gender researcher at Lulea University of Technology (LTU), took place in October 30, 2014 in the House of Science in Lulea. The workshop attract 30 innovation and business promoters from university, civil society and funding agencies.
The selected presentations were followed by a round-table discussion in order to to identify other inclusive and community-changing innovations developed in our region. The workshop contributed in a regional orientation guide to be produced on social innovation with aim to help achieve a more equal and sustainable region.
Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT) organized a workshop with Lulea Municipality sponsored by LTU Enabling ICT in October 17, 2014. Future project cooperation in areas relating to Smart City was discussed with 20 participants. Presentations on availability, energy and environment, winter streets as well as citizen participation were followed by group discussions and reports on potential collaboration ideas.
Results from the LTU-CDT gender project get attention in the Swedish national newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
The newspaper article is about Linda Liukas, Finland who got 380 000 USD dollars in donations from her enthusiastic followers for her idea of children's book on programming. The Mäta Jämt survey presents the amount of female and male workers in the IT sector in Sweden and Finland and how occupations inside the Swedish and Finnish IT sectors are divided by gender.
Link to the article in Dagens Nyheter "Kodning blir en barnlek" http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/kodning-blir-en-barnlek/
Read more about the survey http://www.ged-scanning.com/surveyITwomen.pdf
Link to the Mäta Jämt project http://matajamt.cdt.ltu.se/node/40
Please submit your topic proposals by November 3, 2014.
The European Association for Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) is now accepting proposals for sessions or workshops to be held in the 21st Annual EARMA conference in Leiden, The Netherlands June 28 – July 1, 2015. The Annual Conference Committee (ACC) invites all those interested in research management and administration to become actively involved in the conference programme for 2015.
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A group of three first-year engineering students in Computer Science just finished their presentation of GENOVATE at the university. The audience was approximately 80 first-year students in 27 groups who interviewed our department staff at LTU about ongoing research projects.
-The interviews are part of an introductory course and an annual activity to share with students what goes on at our department on research wise. First-year students become last year students who are often engaged in the department's project work, says Håkan Jonsson, the eaminer of the course.
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