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.

Career Center, LTU’s stakeholders in Genovate

LTU Career change their name today to the Career Center. They celebrate the launch with university staff and students, companies and public organisations. This great opportunity to network ended with a panel discussion about "Future labor market - basic industry meets the digital industry".

 

 

Teacher collaboration between Genovate partners

Alexandra Brazinova at Trnava University (TU) teaching physiotherapy students of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) online. Today’s lecture cover topics like current health issues, health indicators, the ROMA Health Mediators project and gender equality.

For more information, contact Agneta Larsson, LTU the examiner of the course in Physiotherapy, Health promotion perspective from the individual to society http://www.ltu.se/staff/a/agnlar-1.11961?l=en

 

Where are the women at Davos?

The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting focuses on equality and inclusion, but female delegates make up only 17% of the attendees

Social inclusion is at the top of the agenda in Davos, Switzerland, this week, where the question of the role equality plays in driving growth is being asked at every given opportunity. However, of those asking that question, an important voice is missing: women’s. By The Guardian @guardian

Read more http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jan/24/davos-2015-women-female-diversity-gender-equality-boards

Women in Business and Management

A new report from ILO (International Labour Organization)

- Promoting gender equality at the workplace is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do. A growing body of evidence shows that utilizing the skills and talent of both men and women is beneficial for enterprises and for society in general.

Read more http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_334882.pdf

Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East

- Based on analyses from twenty-one research teams in fourteen countries, this book explores what it takes to wield the emancipatory potential of ICT. The case-studies never fail to arouse curiosity, though some chapters are a little short, writes Morgane Colleau.

Read more http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2015/01/04/book-review-women-and-ict-in-africa-and-the-middle-east-changing-selves-changing-societies-by-ineke-buskens-and-anne-webb/

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/