Marcela Linková, coordinator of the Genderaction project, was elected the chair of the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation on October 18 2017. Benjamin Monnoye of the Directorate of Scientific Research, Belgium is the new vice-chair. ERAC SWG GRI is a successor of Helsinki Group on Gender in Research and Innovation.
Conference on new policies and instruments to promote structural changes in order to achieve gender equality in science. The conference will take place in Brussels on 28-29 November 2017. Date: 28-29 November 2017 Venue: Brussels, Hotel Le Plaza Brussels located in Boulevard Adolphe Max 118-126 The Department for Equal Opportunities of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, project coordinator, is pleased to invite you to the final conference of the TRIGGER project entitled...
NKC — gender & science and Eument-net invite to the workshop of mentoring programs. Date: 23. 11. 2017 Venue: Academic conference centre (AKC), Husova 4a, Prague, Czech Republic The aim of the event is to discuss and find the possibilities of international and interdisciplinary collaboration among academic mentoring programs and academic institutions to strengthen international and interdisciplinary research collaboration of researchers through cooperation of individual mentoring programs. To share experiences among coordinators of academic mentoring programs...
Interview with David Moore What do you focus on in your research? In general, I do critical sociological research on alcohol and other drug use and the harms associated with this use. Besides academic outcomes, NDRI’s research is also funded to inform government policy and practice. Our focus is always on “alcohol and other drug use”, which is a term used widely in the Australia sector to remind people that alcohol is also a drug....
Interview with May-Britt Moser The fact we (as mammals) know where we are, and can navigate our way to other places was – for a long time – one of the biggest mysteries in our understanding of the brain. In 2005 May-Britt Moser, with her then husband Edvard I. Moser, solved this mystery; discovering grid cells in our brain that are believed to constitute our positioning system. Their work has given us some of our...
Eument-net invites you to a networking workshop for coordinators of European mentoring programs supporting gender equality in research and academia which will take place on 23rd November in Prague. When: 23. – 24. 11. 2017 Where: Academic Conference Centre, Husova 4a, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic It will follow up on the 2008 eument-net conference The Future of Mentoring Programs. Linking Programs, Experience and People, with the goal of renewing our former cooperation and...
On 19 May 2017 the International Conference on Structural Change for Gender Equality in Research took place in Prague. The goal of the conference was to explore the various factors that affect the implementation of structural change initiatives for gender equality, including historical, geopolitical, and social factors as well as the organization of R&I system, research funding and evaluation or the gender equality regimes in given environment. Experience and results of analyses were presented by...
On 10 February 2017 the Centre for Gender and Science invited associate professor Kateřina Liškova, expert on sexuality and gender in Czechoslovak sexological discourses during communism, to give an annual talk. It was the fifth iteration of the Centre´s annual lectures by outstanding woman researchers. The room was packed and the debate touched on all kinds of topics – progressive work of Czechoslovak sexologists in the 1950s and 1960s, communists’ concept of equality between women...
The H2020 GENDERACTION project kicked off in Prague on 22 and 23 May. The project is coordinated by the National Contact Centre for Gender and Science of the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. “It is my honour to coordinate the GENDERACTION consortium. Having been granted the project confirms the important position of our Centre in the field of gender equality in European Research Area,” says Marcela Linkova, the project coordinator. GENDERACTION will create...
To recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology, the United Nations Member States established an annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February. This year we celebrated the Day in cooperation with the Information Centre of the UN in Prague. With a hashtag campaign titled My favourite woman researcher (in Czech #mojeoblibenavedkyne), we asked people to take a photo of themselves with a picture bearing the...
