European Gender Summit
June 18, 2011 8:57 AM
The European Gender Summit is held under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and is supported by the European Commission through the Science and Society Programme (FP7). The event is supported by a range of high-level partners and patrons from different sectors and backgrounds (see our list of Patrons and Partners). The European Gender Summit is organised jointly by genSET - gender in science, the European Science Foundation and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology.
ESTIA‐Earth: Women in Engineering, Computers, Science and Education
April 23, 2010 8:29 AM
The 5th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Education ICIE’10 continues the initiative of dissemination of innovations that improve the Engineering‐Computers‐Science higher education. ICIE is a major annual international conference devoted to improvements in education. It is an ideal forum for sharing ideas, learning about new developments in education, and interacting with colleagues worldwide.
SciTech Europe 2009: Innovation Across Europe
August 19, 2009 2:24 PM
SciTech Europe is focusing on how we create a cohesive, collaborative framework for successful European science innovations and how the European knowledge economy can reach its full potential. The event is a one day networking conference aimed at the Science and Technology Sector from around the world and promises to bring together leading industry stakeholders, academic experts and key policy makers to outline a collaborative approach to European science and technology frameworks.
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PEOPLECERT Commiting to the Code of Best Practices for Women in ICT
February 10, 2011 12:32 PM
More than 50 companies -such as Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, France-Telecom, Google, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft,Οrange, Panasonic and SAP- have signed the ‘‘Code of Best Practices for Women and Technology’’- committing themselves to implement actions to eliminate women’s underrepresentation in the ICT sector. Since December 2010, the PEOPLECERT Group has recognized the problem and has been participating in the European Commission’s initiative by signing the Code of Best Practices for women in ICT.
Support for women returners across Europe through e-learning
August 19, 2009 9:05 PM
Throughout Europe, women returners make up a significant proportion of the potential labour pool and yet are often overlooked or can lack the confidence to return to employment following a career break. More support is needed to assist women to develop the confidence and skills necessary to effectively return to work in order to ensure this group of talent is not lost from the European labour market.
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Alliance of Skills for Employability to provide access to technology, access to content, and access to jobs to help train people in ICT and other skill-sets required by current and future economic and social developments (Eva FABRY, 2010)