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Scientists working outside of academia, Fullbright and combining family and academic career. Informal event for (post)docs is coming soon

Under our mentoring program for beginner scientists we are holding the annual Alumni event for current and former mentees. However, it is also open for those who are yet to join the program. We would like to invite you to this event with this exciting program. There will be three panels with TED talks and discussion. We are going to talk about academic mobility, specifically about our mentee’s experiences with the Fullbright scholarship, with combining...

Newsletter Editorial 1/2019

Dear colleagues, This issue brings you a selection of must-read articles about some of the activities of the National Contact Centre for Gender in Science in the past six months. First of all, we are bringing you a report about the International Day of Women and Girls campaign. The centre was also represented at the Women In Science conference, which was organised by the British embassy. Last but not least, we are proud to announce...

2017 Monitoring report on the position of women in science

In June 2019 the Centre for Gender and Science published its yearly report on the position of women in Czech science – Monitoring report on the position of women in science in 2017.  The overall number of employees in research and development is increasing. A growing number was also observed within individual professions: researcher, technician, and other positions in research and development. Women made up 30.2 % (28.1 % of FTEs) of all positions in...

Conference in Naples – Inclusive Academia

EUMENT-NET and Department of Political Science University of Naples Federico II invite you to the international conference dedicated to the topic of unconscious bias in transforming academia and the strategies how to tackle them. Part of the conference will focus on mentoring as a succesful tool to support gender equality and diversity in academia. 16-17 September 2019, Naples, Italy Conference title: Inequality vs inclusiveness in changing academic governance: policies, resistances, opportunities  In the last decades,...

Czech version of Inferior awarded

We are proud to announce that the Czech version of Angela Saini book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong was awarded a prize for translation. There has been recently a reprint of the book and Angela Saini recorded this video message for us:

GENDERACTION: Future of gender equality in Europe

On 9 April 2019 GENDERACTION organised a conference to mark its two year’s existence together with the 20th anniversary of EU activities to promote gender equality in research and innovation in Brussels. With the next framework programme and a review of the European Research Area and its priorities on the horizon, the conference brought together 68 key stakeholders to discuss recent developments in Member States and the European Commission and address priorities and concerns for...

GE in R&I: 20 years of EU activities and still a long way to go

Over the past twenty years big strides have been made in Europe to advance gender equality in research and innovation. We have far more knowledge about the complexity of the issues involved and the ways they interact. Many countries have adopted (more or less complex) gender equality policies, including those specifically focused on research. Sophisticated tools have been developed to advance cultural and institutional changes through gender equality plans in research organisations and universities (such...

Women In Science Conference

On 5 March 2019 the inspirational all-day conference Women In Science took place in the premises of the Liechtenstein Palace in Prague. The event was organised by the British Embassy Prague in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. Among the speakers were Baroness Greenfield,  Professor of Physiology at Oxford University; Dame Ottoline Leyser, Professor of Biology at Cambridge University, and Sainsbury Laboratory Director at Cambridge; Jessica Wade, Physicist at Imperial College...

Book by Ottoline Leyser: Mothers In Science

Ottoline Leyser  is a British plant biologist and Professor of Plant Development at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests are in the genetics of plant development and the interaction of plant hormones with the environment. Ottoline Leyser participated at the conference Women In Science, which was organised by the British embassy in Prague on 5 March 2019. Professor Leyser published a book about work-life balance of female researchers. The aim of the book is...

ERA: GE And Gender Mainstreaming in Research in CZ

The 2018 ERA Progress Report assesses the current state of the European Research Area (ERA) and the progress made on ERA implementation in 2016-2018. It is the second time in a row that progress has been measured at country level using the ERA monitoring mechanism. This is an extract of the part which concerns gender equality and gender mainstreaming in research in the Czech Republic. Czech researchers’ integration of a gender dimension in their research...