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.

Gender project results in media

Results from the LTU-CDT gender project get attention in the Swedish national newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

The newspaper article is about Linda Liukas, Finland who got 380 000 USD dollars in donations from her enthusiastic followers for her idea of children's book on programming. The Mäta Jämt survey presents the amount of female and male workers in the IT sector in Sweden and Finland and how occupations inside the Swedish and Finnish IT sectors are divided by gender.

Link to the article in Dagens Nyheter  "Kodning blir en barnlek" http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/kodning-blir-en-barnlek/

Read more about the survey http://www.ged-scanning.com/surveyITwomen.pdf

Link to the Mäta Jämt project http://matajamt.cdt.ltu.se/node/40

 

 

Participatory methods (interactive research methods)

Thirteen participants attend today’s seminar at LTU on participatory research in practice and theory including gender equality approach. The seminar 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.

 -The starting point is our experiences from a numerous projects carried out at Luleå University of Technology, says Ewa Gunnarsson, one of the seminar leaders.

Gender & leadership at LTU and in academia

In a Stop & Share Session GENOVATE partners discuss on-line gender competent leadership that is part of the WP4 work lead by AU. Today's session is hosted by Ylva Fältholm, LTU.

EARMA Annual Conference in Leiden, Netherlands

Please submit your topic proposals by November 3, 2014.

The European Association for Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) is now accepting proposals for sessions or workshops to be held in the 21st Annual EARMA conference in Leiden, The Netherlands June 28 – July 1, 2015. The Annual Conference Committee (ACC) invites all those interested in research management and administration to become actively involved in the conference programme for 2015.

Read more

http://conference2015.earma.org/topics-submission/685/

UCM visit to Luleå June 9-10, 2014

The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) visited Luleå University of Technology (LTU) June 9-10, 2014. Two productive days with interviews, evaluations meetings and an evaluation workshop. Julia and Maria from UCM also experienced the land of the nightless nights. The outdoor photo is taken at 10.15 pm after the dinner.

 

Computer Science students presenting GENOVATE

A group of three first-year engineering students in Computer Science just finished their presentation of GENOVATE at the university. The audience was approximately 80 first-year students in 27 groups who interviewed our department staff at LTU about ongoing research projects.

-The interviews are part of an introductory course and an annual activity to share with students what goes on at our department on research wise. First-year students become last year students who are often engaged in the department's project work, says Håkan Jonsson, the eaminer of the course.