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genSET Capacity Building Workshops 2011
www.genderinscience.org
genSET is an innovative project aiming to improve the excellence of European science through inclusion of the gender dimension in research and science knowledge making. genSET is holding three workshops in 2011 which will help your organisation develop institutional capacity for action on a specific area. The workshops will facilitate the development of practical gender mainstreaming plans that can be accommodated within the available functional mechanisms and structural dynamics of your organisation by providing you with access to gender expertise.
Advancing Excellence in Science through Gender Equality
Location: The Tema Institute (Gender Studies), Linköping University, Sweden
Date: lunchtime Monday 28th until late afternoon Tuesday 29th March 2011
Advancing RTD through Gender-Fair Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Location: Campus of the University of Vienna, Seminar room of the Institut für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin, Old Chapel, court 2.8, Vienna, Austria
Date: 19th - 20th May 2011
Gender Stereotypes and Gendered Attitudes in the Assessment of Women’s Work
Location: Democritus 153 10 Agia Paraskevi Attica, Athens, Greece
Date: 3rd March 2011
Further details on the workshops can be found below at www.genderinscience.org along with more information on genSET, its products to date and a library of references on gender and science.
genSET: gender in science is an FP7 project which promotes Dialogue and Action for Gender Equality & Research Excellence in European Science.
To register please go to www.genderinscience.org or contact the genSET team on info@genderinscience.org
Advancing Excellence in Science through Gender Equality
In recent years there have been major policy developments and policy debates on both the search for excellence in science, and the need for more effective gender mainstreaming and gender equality measures. However, these two sets of initiatives have usually been promoted rather separately from each other. This separation has typically applied equally at organisational, national and European levels.
This workshop brings together policies and practices on science excellence and gender mainstreaming and gender equality. In particular, it examines how excellence in science can be enhanced through greater gender equality.
The focus is on:
• excellence and gender equality in science organisations and institutions, especially universities, research institutes, and research councils and funders;
• what research managers, management, leaders and leadership can do to enhance excellence and promote gender equality at the same time;
• policy implementation and practices, using examples of successful interventions on excellence and gender equality.
The workshop is designed for science stakeholder organisations and their leaders who wish to develop their policies and practices on excellence, gender mainstreaming and gender equality.
It will be facilitated by international gender experts, including Professor Jeff Hearn, Guest Professor Liisa Husu (both Linköping University), Dr Carl Jacobsson (Swedish Research Council), Professor Martina Schraudner (Fraunhofer Institute), and Dr Maya Widmer (Swiss National Science Foundation), and will provide an opportunity for dialogue between leaders of science organisations and gender experts.
In addition, a small number of participant genSET stakeholder organisations attending the workshop will be offered expert policy mentoring and support, assisted by international gender experts, in order to facilitate the implementation of gender action plans.
Register for a workshop at www.genderinscience.org/registration.html
Advancing RTD through Gender-Fair Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Gender Action Plans do not help women only. They can establish procedures and structures that reduce bias and inequality in the recruitment and promotion of researchers, improve the working climate, and reduce brain drain by retaining highly qualified and motivated personalities.
It can be challenging to transfer Gender Action Plans across research organisation because each has to be tailored to the specific circumstances of the institute and adapted to national laws and research structures. What works and what does not and how to measure their success must be considered as part of the process.
Recruitment, promotion and retention procedures often favour a social group or disadvantage others, and the mechanisms leading to this inequality are not always obvious, guidelines can be circumvented, procedures can have unintended effects.
The target group of this workshop are research institutions all over Europe, who want to implement new or improved Gender Action Plans at their organisations. Participants will be representatives of science organisations who have the responsibility for the implementation of gender policies.
This workshop will go beyond usual debates on gender policies. It will build on the participants' experienced or anticipated problems in the context of gender policy implementation. Participants and organisers will draft the workshop agenda interactively (Interactive Preparation Phase December 2010 – April 2010). In the preparatory phase of the workshop, participants will be asked to bring their ideas, requirements, and questions and to actively take part in the development of the workshop programme, which will be tailored to their specific needs.
The workshop offers:
1. extensive information on Gender Action Plans, general and in respect to individual requests
2. exchange of experiences and ideas with other research organisations
3. intense support by highly qualified gender experts
4. discussions of special questions live and in online fora
It is intended to have an interchange between the participants and gender experts with the aim to develop specific and feasible Gender Action Plans which participants can take back for implementation at their organization/company.
In addition to the event, the workshop comprises communication and exchange of experiences by web conferences and Skype meetings on specific topics, so that institutions with similar questions will have opportunity to exchange ideas. There will be occasion for small-group online discussions with highly specialized and renowned experts on specific topics, which will be selected according to the specific requirements of participants (Support Phase June – Autumn 2011). They can give advice on tangible problems and help to evaluate available evidence in the light of the participants’ own institutional circumstances.
Register for a workshop at www.genderinscience.org/registration.html
Gender Stereotypes and Gendered Attitudes in the Assessment of Women’s Work
Gender stereotypes can be an inhibitor to the development and progress of an organisation. Assessment procedures undermined by gender stereotypes may lead to opposite than desired results. Gender Action Plans serve as keystone to the transformation of the organisation, setting the basis for removing stereotypes that prevent women’s progress.
The target group of this workshop are science institutions all over Europe that want to implement new or improve existing Gender Action Plans in their organisations. This workshop will facilitate a process by which each organisation will reflect on its capacity needs for the implementation of an effective Gender Action Plan leading to the elimination of gender stereotypes and attitudes that have negative impact on the assessment of women’s work.
Each organisation has its own rules, particular characteristics and, most importantly, different needs. The structure of the workshop serves this differentiation and corresponds to the specificity of each institution.
The preparatory phase of the workshop will enable each participant to outline their organisation's expected benefits from the implementation of the Gender Action Plan. The record of the capacity needs of each institution forms the focus of the workshop and will be reflected in the implementation strategy of the Gender Action Plan.
An online workspace will facilitate the preparatory phase that will support the exchange of experience, the discussion on different Action Plans and the reflection on the capacity needs of each organisation.
The workshop will facilitate in depth examination of the implementation procedure of Gender Action Plans, exploring possible implications, discrepancies and success factors.
High ranking Gender Experts will support workshop participants during the preparatory phase as well as during the workshop event, facilitating the discussions and the reflection process with their experience, knowledge and necessary materials.
Register for a workshop at www.genderinscience.org/registration.html
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