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.
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.
Seminar titled 'What is at Stake? Why does gender equality in science matter?' delivered on 14th October 2015 held in Czech Academy of Sciences conference premises, Brno.
The seminar included interactive and thought provoking discussions amongst the 50+ participants to gain insights on matters relating to gender equality at national, institutional, and disciplinary levels. This seminar was received extremely well by the large audience who were actively engaged in discussion, on questions posed by GENOVATE UNIBRAD:
1. What is the status of gender equality...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
2. Solutions to improve gender inequality in science...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
3. Challenges in implementing solutions...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
4. Why does gender equality matter...
- in your country?
- in your institution?
- in your discipline?
GENOVATE UNIBRAD collected thoughts from group discussions with academics across Europe
At Centre for Distance-spanning Technology we yesterday carried out a focus group in order to gain more knowledge about the culture climate change at LTU regarding gender equality. We use collaborative processes and participatory methods in our workshops to enable the sharing of knowledge and experiences between gender researchers and participants. This focus group is one of the activities when striving for a more innovative organisational development and change process at our university.
-Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. (Henry Ford)
On 22 September 2015 Dr. Ilenia Picardi and Dr. Antonella Liccardo of the UNINA GENOVATE team met with seven representatives of UNINA CUG (Comitato Unico di Garanzia = Equal Opportunities Committee) and discussed the key themes and objectives of the GENOVATE project.
This was the first meeting held since when Prof. Concetta Giancola, who is also a member of the Neapolitan Caucus "Women in Science", has been elected CUG President.
Dr. Picardi described the project structure and areas of intervention, and emphasized how the initiatives that each member University takes at the local level are also informed by the constant feedback of all other members of the GENOVATE Consortium.
Dr. Liccardo instead shared some of the preliminary risults of her work on Gender Budgeting.
Benedetta Magri, Senior Programme Officer at the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ILO) has held a workshop on Leadership, Gender and Science for the GENOVATE Mentoring Programme at UNINA.
Genovate results presented and discussed at the EARMA 2015 conference in Leiden, Netherlands. Around 40 people participated in the discussion after the talks of Carina Mattsson and Paula Wennberg.
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