GEAP's implementation:

genovate official siteThe 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.

Videos featured on the Gendered Innovations Website

Videos featured on the Gendered Innovations website http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/video_landing.html. Londa Schiebinger, Gendered Innovations, Stanford University, welcomes you to use these in class or in other instructional ways.

 

Promoting inclusion and gender equality

A good example from Spotify

-There’ve been many efforts during the past few years to raise awareness of gender equality in the IT industry. But it’s been slow progress – and we don’t like slow! So we decided to do things differently. Instead of just hoping to achieve gender equality, we made it a requirement for the hackathon “Diversify”.

Read more https://labs.spotify.com/2015/01/13/diversify-how-we-created-a-hackathon-with-50-50-female-male-participants/

Participatory Research in Practice and Theory

A paper on the challenges of the researcher-participant relationship in the Genovate project was presented by Paula Wennberg and discussed in today’s workshop. This final two-day workshop on Participatory Research in Practice and Theory conducted by Ewa Gunnarsson and Malin Lindberg at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden attracted 12 participants. The workshop is part of a seminar series that brings together a wide range of people from across the university to gain a deeper understanding of how joint research processes can be implemented in close collaboration between researchers and surrounding society.

Gender dimension in user involvement

The VIT project is a collaboration between Luleå University of Technology and industry implementing a Ghost Drive Detection system. The system will detect drivers going in a wrong direction. How to involve users and include a gender dimension in the development of a warning system is one of the topics of the workshop on December 16, 2014.

Embedding gender equality at LTU

Embedding gender equality in a new project idea for 3D and virtual reality on November 25, 2014 at our university
campus in Skellefteå.

 

 

Participatory methods workshop at LTU

The fourth workshop on participatory methods (interactive research methods) with 14 participants was carried out today at Luleå University Technology (LTU). The event is a part of the seminar series that aim to bring together a wide range of people from across the university to gain a deeper understanding of how joint research processes can be implemented in close collaboration between researchers and surrounding society.

One of the topics discussed by the participants was the methods chapter of Malin Lindberg’s doctoral thesis “Joint action for innovation – a participative and gender scientific challenge of innovation policy and innovation research”.