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.

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.

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/

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.

Meet LTU at EARMA 2014 in Tallinn, Estonia June 30 – July 2, 2014

The 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) will take place from the 30th June till 2nd July 2014 in Tallinn, Tallinn University, Estonia. Widening participation: excellence, impact and professionalism

The Conference will focus on cross-border research collaboration, the challenges with regard to the HORIZON 2020 Programme, research management from policy to practice and on the professional development of research managers and administrators. EARMA 2014 is being hosted by Tallinn University on their campus in the centre of Tallinn.

Welcome to meet Lulea University of Technology (LTU) in the workshop:

Gender in research and administration (Monday, June 30 at 14:00-15:50
Chair: Paula Wennberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Speakers: Susi Poli, Bologna University, Italy
Malin Rosquist, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Johan Åkerman, Linköping University, Sweden

For more information http://earma-tallinn-2014.com/

Find CDT on Facebook

Luleå University of Technology is the Swedish partner of the GENOVATE consortium. The LTU team members come from several divisions at LTU: Centre for Distance-spanning Technology, Industrial Work Environment and Gender&Technology.

Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT) is a research, design and innovation joint venture between the core partners Luleå University of Technology and the IT industry.

CDT innovation and gender

The establishment of CDT’s innovation and gender platform is made possible by the combined efforts of CDT’s concluded and ongoing initiatives and projects in gender equality and diversity. The innovation and gender platform supports CDT's strategic business activities as well as CDT’s and its partners’ gender mainstreaming processes both in academia and industry. The aim of the innovation and gender platform is to contribute to an inclusive, innovative and reflective society.

Find CDT on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Distance-spanning-Technology/467270033346266

Genovate news from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

Luleå University of Technology (LTU) shall become a more gender-aware organization. Women and men should have equal opportunities in terms of research, innovation and access to higher academic positions. – We need to get the perspective into all our processes, says Ylva Fältholm, professor at the Division of Human Work Science and Dean of the Faculty of Science and technology.

Read the whole article on the website of the university:

http://www.ltu.se/?l=en

http://www.ltu.se/centres/cdt/Nyheter/Okad-jamstalldhet-vid-Lulea-tekniska-universitet-1.115589?l=en