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.
– 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 .
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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
A toolbox and a gender app for gender mainstreaming shall change norms and get more women into the field of information and communication technology. – Now, we always have gender equality on the agenda on our project meetings, says Arne Gylling, project leader at Centre for distance-spanning technology, CDT.
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http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Verktyg-for-okad-jamstalldhet-1.119517?l=en
The 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will take place from the 30th June till 2nd July 2014 in Tallinn, Tallinn University, Estonia. Widening participation: excellence, impact and professionalism
The Conference will focus on cross-border research collaboration, the challenges with regard to the HORIZON 2020 Programme, research management from policy to practice and on the professional development of research managers and administrators. EARMA 2014 is being hosted by Tallinn University on their campus in the centre of Tallinn.
Welcome to meet Lulea University of Technology (LTU) in the workshop:
Gender in research and administration (Monday, June 30 at 14:00-15:50
Chair: Paula Wennberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Speakers: Susi Poli, Bologna University, Italy
Malin Rosquist, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Johan Åkerman, Linköping University, Sweden
For more information http://earma-tallinn-2014.com/
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
SHEMERA - SHE Euro-Mediterranean Research Area- is a European project funded under the FP7 which aims to enhance research cooperation on gender and science between the European Union and the Mediterranean Partner countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia). It is providing the state of the art, data collection and relevant comparative analysis in Mediterranean Partner Countries about gender equality and policies in research careers.
On Friday, 30th May, an EURO-MEDITERRANEAN WORKSHOP ON GENDER AND SCIENCE, organized during the SHEMERA FOURTH PROJECT MEETING, was held in Città della Scienza in Naples. Ofelia Pisanti and Ilenia Picardi participated in the afternoon session on "Policies and measures to promote gender equality in the evolving context of MPCs", where the Mediterranean Partners Countries presented the present situation in their countries and proposed recommendations for the policy action in the labor market and in the field of research.
Çiler Dursun has appointed as Responsible Person of EU Projects Unit at Ankara University on 17th March 2014. We believe that this new position will enable AU Genovate team to give more support for researchers as a part of GEAP of AU.
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