About the
events
Recruitment, promotion and retention procedures often favour a social group and disadvantage others. The mechanisms leading to this inequality are not always obvious. Guidelines can be circumvented, procedures can have unintended effects. Refined Gender Action Plans can establish procedures and structures that reduce bias and inequality in the recruitment and promotion of researchers. Well-grounded gender policies not only add to justice for women but can also create a more productive working climate and retain highly qualified and motivated staff in RTD.
To promote gender-fair recruitment and
retention, the Science Shop Vienna organised the workshop Advancing Gender-Fair Recruitment
and Retention Strategies, which was held in Vienna in
May 2011. To address specific problems which have been
identified at this workshop, the Science Shop Vienna organises web conferences (webinars)
with renowned experts as a kind of mentoring activity. The webinars take place in
January and February 2012.
The target group of all these events are research institutions in Europe, who want to implement or improve Gender Action Plans. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies.
The events offer
- exchange of experiences and ideas among those advocating gender equity at their different research organisations,
- reflection of gender policies and guidelines in respect to potential impact and feasibility, and
- support by highly qualified gender experts responding to participant’s individual requests on specific topics.
How to participate
You need to register by sendung us an email and will receive an answer if there is still a place in the webinar/s.
You can participate in the webinars without leaving your
workplace and without having to install additional software. You
need only a headset, a suitable internet connection (broadband
is best), and, if you want to be seen, a webcam.
For the events we use a simple cost-free web
conferencing system, Flashmeeting, which
is increasingly used by universities and NGOs in distant
learning and international research co-operations. The Science
Shop Vienna offers cost-free orientation sessions before the
conferences take place. Additionally we show participants how to
organize Flashmeetings, so they can network and exchange
experiences with Flashmeeting in the
future.
The events are part of the genSET project, which is funded by the European Commission under FP7. The project is conducted by a consortium consisting of Portia Ltd., Wissenschaftsladen Wien - Science Shop Vienna, the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, and Linköping University, and backed by a network of a broad variety of European science institutions as patrons: Fraunhofer, the European Science Foundation, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, the Research Council of Norway, Euroscience, TNO, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and COST.