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.
The Swedish EU Network for Gender Equality in Academia (SENJA) had a F2F meeting with Swedish members of FESTA, GENOVATE, GenPORT and GEDII in Stockholm on November 23, 2015. LTU also had an opportunity to present SENJA and GENOVATE to the Swedish Research Council Formas and participate in the launch of their new report: Sustainable future through excellence in research and development.
The Swedish EU network for gender equality in academia (SENJA), had a keynote in the national gender equality conference held in Uppsala, Sweden on October 22-23, 2015. The SENJA members come from ongoing FP7 and H2020 gender projects: FESTA, GenderTime, GENOVATE, GenPORT, genderSTE and GEDII. Swedish experiences of EU gender equality projects were highlighted by the FESTA team in this keynote speech. The two-day conference attracted 100 participants http://akkonferens.slu.se/likavillkor2015/
LTU had a poster session @gendersummit7 in Berlin, Germany November 6-7, 2015. Malin Lindberg's poster discussed Undoing Gender in EU’s social innovation policies? Ylva Fältholm and Paula Wennberg highlighted best practices and good gender mainstreaming examples from LTU, e.g. Genovate, OPTi, SATIN. Gender Summit 7 attracted 320 delegates.
GENOVATE-UNINA has participated to the 29th edition of FUTURO REMOTO, a popular Science Festival sponsored by Città della Scienza (a renowned Naples-based Foundation promoting scientific knowledge and public access to science), to give visibility to the GENOVATE project and to women researchers in academia.
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
On 22 September 2015 Dr. Ilenia Picardi and Dr. Antonella Liccardo of the UNINA GENOVATE team met with seven representatives of UNINA CUG (Comitato Unico di Garanzia = Equal Opportunities Committee) and discussed the key themes and objectives of the GENOVATE project.
This was the first meeting held since when Prof. Concetta Giancola, who is also a member of the Neapolitan Caucus "Women in Science", has been elected CUG President.
Dr. Picardi described the project structure and areas of intervention, and emphasized how the initiatives that each member University takes at the local level are also informed by the constant feedback of all other members of the GENOVATE Consortium.
Dr. Liccardo instead shared some of the preliminary risults of her work on Gender Budgeting.
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