Programme

Opening & keynote speech

– Paulo do Nascimento Cabral – European Parliament

– Joanna Drake – Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

ATHENA – Implementing GEP in Widening countries

– Michelle Perello – ATHENA Project coordinator

Measuring Success: Gender Equality as a Performance Driver in Research

This session will present the conclusion of the ATHENA policy brief on the impact of gender equality to research performance in research performing organizations and will open the debate on the importance of measuring such an impact and to support gender equality policies as driver of competitiveness. Speakers include authors of the briefs and partner of ATHENA, scientists/researchers and policy makers.

– Marc Angel – European Parliament

– Michelle Perello – Consulta Europa Projects and Innovation

– Prof. Ana Kaminska, Jan Kochanovsky University

– Kateřina Svíčková – European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation

Moderator: Gabriel Bianchi– Institute of Social Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Coffee break

Bridging Divides: Gender Equality for Younger, Rural and Remote Research Organizations

This session will present the ATHENA policy briefs highlighting the complexities and varying degrees of gender inequality indexes, particularly in remote or less developed areas. The brief underscores thus the importance of context-specific strategies to address these disparities among youngers, smaller or remote research performing organizations with respect to more developed or bigger research performing organizations. Speakers included:

– Dr. Clelia Cascella, University of Manchester

– Prof. Maura Farrell, Galway University

– Dr. Laura de Dominicis, European Commission, Directorate General for Urban and Regional Policy

– Dr. Michelle Perello, Consulta Europa Projects and Innovation

– Dan Rune Olsen – Young European Research University Network

Moderator: Gisela Nascimento, Regional Fund for Science and Technology

Conclusion

– Gisela Nascimento

– Gabriel Bianchi