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 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
How to integrate social perspectives in innovation research and innovation development. Malin Lindberg and Fredrik Sjögren present examples from Luleå University of Technology on November 17, 2015.
The OPTi H2020 project has a F2F meeting in Stuttgart, Germany on December 8-10, 2015. OPTi aims to contribute to next-generation district heating and cooling systems with a user-centric design. Some of current highlights are: Passed Milestone 1 – Analyse, the design of a concept for consumer interaction and the first prototypes developed by the project. Regarding the cross-cutting theme of gender mainstreaming, a gender perspective has been integrated in six deliverables since the project start in March. The meeting also provides feedback on the first prototype of the GENOVATE Gender and Diversity Toolkit which is one the GENOVATE deliverables.
A new project (FUI - data centers) had a kick off on November 30, 2015 at Luleå University of Technology with about 30 participants from academia and industry. This project has focus on development of the data center industry, based on the regional data center strategy that has been developed for the Northern Sweden. The project aims to create a world leading region for data center establishments. As women are still not choosing tech careers it limits the pool of qualified people available and this is one of the drivers of the project to strive for a more inclusive working environment in the data center industry.
Next step after the GENOVATE focus group and interviews in October at LTU was planned to be a workshop on value exercises which took place on November 10, 2015 and was facilitated by Eva Källhammer. Value exercises expose our norms and values, while at the same time provide an open space for making people conscious, understand and change behaviours and attitudes. The results of the focus group, interviews and workshop will be illustrated by the Persona method and discussed in a final workshop in 2016.
The 6th Advisory Board meeting was held last week at Luleå University of Technology. The main agenda item was the first version of the Gender & Diversity Toolkit which is one the deliverables of the project. The toolkit was demonstrated by Åsa Wikberg-Nilsson and the discussion afterwards had focus on when and how to carry out more tests and with which target audience. The GENOVATE WP5 team welcomes all creative and innovative ideas regarding content, usability, design, lay-out etc.
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