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• April 2012 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Bergen 29-31 August 2012 The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond. The European conferences on gender equality in higher education have since 1998 regularly brought together hundreds of gender equality practitioners, researchers and administrators from Europe and beyond. The conferences provide an international forum to discuss and exchange information and experiences and share research results on the changes and challenges related to gender in academia, gender equality promotion and interventions in higher education institutions.. Keynote speakers: Alexandra Bitusikova (Slovakia), Curt Rice (Norway), Cordelia Fine (Australia), Renata Siemienska (Poland), Mari Teigen (Norway) and Kathrin Zippel (USA). Topics for the parallel sessions:

  • The financial crisis in the world and changing conditions for research and higher education. How will it affect gender equality in academia?
  • Autonomy reforms in higher education and gender equality
  • Gender mainstreaming in universities: challenges and successes
  • Assessing the impact of gender equality interventions and measures
  • Intersectionality, masculinities and gender equality in academia
  • Gender and career trajectories
  • Excellence and research policy in relation to equality

  Sign up for the conference here: Registration - Click here
  Call for posters – click here (Deadline May 31, 2012)

• April 2012 Invitation to Free Webinar on “How to get more women professors”. In 2001, only 9% of the full professors at the University of Tromsø were women, giving Tromsø the worst record in Norway. By 2011, they had over 28% women and are now the best in Norway.  In this webinar, Curt Rice (VP for R&D), describes the motivations and processes behind this success. Join us to hear how one institution has changed its culture for gender balance in the academic hierarchy, and how you can move your institution forward, too. Curt Rice was a member of the genSET Consensus Panel and has been an active supporter of genSET’s work. Webinar starts at 1pm CST / 7pm CEST. Vist Prof Rice's blog to read more and reigster
  
  
• March 2012 Elizabeth Pollitzer, Portia Director and genSET coordinator, is very pleased to have been involved in the Journal of the International AIDS Society's marking of International Women's Day. The Journal published a commentary by leading experts and editors on the importance of gender-sensitive reporting in medical research. Read more here

• February 2012 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Bergen 29-31 August 2012 The University of Bergen welcomes researchers, university teachers, administrators, gender equality practitioners and student union representatives to the 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond. Call For Papers Deadline 1st March 2012

• February 2012 Webinar on gender-fair recruitment and retention with Marcela Linková on 23 February 2012, 1 - 3 p.m. CET: "Mobility and precarity in the early career stages: a gender perspective". To register, send an email to the Science Shop Vienna, wilawien@wilawien.ac.at. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies. You can participate without leaving your workplace and without having to install additional software. The webinars are designed as a mentoring/coaching activity for Members of the genSET Stakeholder Network.

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  February 2012 European Conference on Gender and Innovation - Maximising Innovation Potential Through Diversity in Research Organisations, 19th - 20th March 2012, Stuttgart, Germany The European Commission has supported the “Gender Debate in the European Research Area” by financing a project, which focuses on current issues around gender and research in research organisations and higher education institutions. Good practices which support female researchers to advance along research career ladders are documented in an interactive database (www.gendera.eu). Nevertheless all countries face the common challenge that policies and action plans have not adequately led to a significant change in the numbers of female researchers reaching leading research positions. As a result it is necessary to consider the topic from other perspectives including research and organisational cultures as well as diversity being a driver for innovation. What policy changes are needed to make further advances? What role does structural change play? And how can innovation be driven by considering gender? And what can be learnt by gendering research?
  The conference “Maximising Innovation Potential through Diversity in Research Organisations” will gather experts from international and European organisations presenting and discussing how we can achieve a better impact in our gender activities. The conference invites all stakeholders to join the debate for increasing the innovation potential through more diversity and gender equality in research and innovation processes. Discuss with experts current and future policy on gender and innovation. genSET Science Leader and Gender Expert, Martina Schraudner, will be presenting at the event.
  
  THE CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE
  Date: Monday, 19th 13.00 – ca. 20.00 and Tuesday, 20th March 2012, 09.15 – ca. 14.15
  Conference Venue: Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
  Conference language: English
  Information: More information about the conference can also be found under www.gendera.eu
  Registration: Participation at the conference is free of charge. Registrations will be accepted according to the order in which they are received. Registration closes on 13. March 2012.
  To register please visit www.gendera.eu/index.php5?file=21
  Conference Office: Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, Ms Milena Mikosch
  Email: events@steinbeis-europa.de

• February 2012 Webinar on gender-fair recruitment and retention with Flavia Zucco on 8 February 2012, 1 - 3 p.m. CET: "How and why implement new evaluation criteria".
  To register, send an email to the Science Shop Vienna, wilawien@wilawien.ac.at.
  Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies. You can participate without leaving your workplace and without having to install additional software. The webinar is designed as a mentoring/coaching activity exclusively for those who have been engaged in genSET and the genSET Stakeholder Network.

• January 2012 Congratulations to The University of Tromsø, awarded Norway's Gender Equality Prize for 2011. According to the Ministry of Education and Research "Gender equality work at the University of Tromsø is clearly a prestige project for the university leadership, which sees gender balance as a prerequisite for success." Tromsø has worked closely with genSET since the project started in 2009, Pro Rector for Research & Development Curt Rice was a member of the Science Leaders Panel which wrote the Recommendations for Action on the Gender Dimension in Science consensus report and had been a valued support since. Read more about the prize and how Tromsø achieved it on Curt Rice's blog.
  
  
• January 2012 genSET Partner, The Science Shop Vienna, is organising web conferences (webinars) on gender-fair recruitment and retention with renowned experts, taking place in January and February 2012. The target group of the events are research institutions in Europe. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies. The events offer:
  * exchange of experiences and ideas among those advocating gender equity at their different research organisations,
  * reflection of gender policies and guidelines in respect to potential impact and feasibility, and
  * support by highly qualified gender experts responding to participants individual requests on specific topics.
  You can participate in the webinars without leaving your workplace and without having to install additional software.
  For the events the Science Shop Vienna uses a simple free web conferencing system, Flashmeeting. For those who do not know it all, free orientation sessions of about 15 minutes are offered. Further information is available at http://wilawien.ac.at/genset/. The next webinar is: 20 January 2012, 10 - 12 (CET): Knowing and Living in Academic Research with Prof Ulrike Felt, professor of social studies of science since1999 and head of the STS department at the University of Vienna.
  In her presentation she will focus on changes in the science cultures and the gender aspects of these changes.

• December 2011 On the 16th December 2011, Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, director of Portia (genSET coordinator) presented the Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation to Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science. The Manifesto is the result of the public consultation launched by genSET in conjunction with the 1st European Gender Summit.  It summarizes the views of over 300 individuals working in the European science system who responded with recommendations on how to enhance research and innovation by addressing gender equality issues. We would like to thank all those who have already formally signed the document and would invite others to add their name to the signatories list. With the proposed framework for Horizon 2020 yet to be approved by the European Council and Parliament, it is most timely to demonstrate that Article 15, which states that:  Horizon 2020 shall ensure the effective promotion of gender equality and the gender dimension in research and innovation content, has the support of a large and committed constituency made up of scientists, policy and decision makers, and gender research scholars.

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