Marcela Linkova Elected Chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group

On 18 October 2017 Marcela Linková, the head of the Centre for Gender and Science, was elected the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (SWG GRI). The European Research and Innovation Advisory Committee (ERAC) gives advice to the Council, the Commission and Member States on research and innovation related to the European Research Area. The SWG GRI builds on the work of the Commission’s advisory group, the Helsinki Group on Gender for Research and Innovation, established in 1999.