Gender Summit 7 Europe - Quality Research and Innovation through Equality

(openPR) Date
6-7 November, Berlin

Theme
Mastering gender in research performance, contexts, and outcomes
Day 1: The benefits of gender equal and gender sensitive research and innovation
Day 2: Enhancing the capacity of policy actions to achieve lasting change


Speakers
80 speakers
Keynotes:
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
Dr Emilie Marcus, CEO, Cell Press, Elsevier
Dr Ingrid Wünning Tschol, Senior Vice President Health and Science, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany
Prof Rolf Tarrach, President of the European University Association (EUA), Former Rector, University of Luxembourg

Partners
Elsevier, Robert Bosch Foundation, NordForsk, The Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, University of Gothenburg, The Committee for gender balance and diversity in research (KIF), Portia Ltd UK and Davinci Institute,.

Why Berlin?
The Gender Summit 7-Europe takes place in Berlin for two reasons. Firstly, in 2015, Germany has taken an important step to address gender imbalance issues by approving legislation requiring major companies to allocate 30% of seats on non-executive boards to women. Secondly, we wanted to combine this with the annual Falling Walls celebrations to draw attention to the fact that gender bias in knowledge making creates boundaries that divide quality of research outcomes for women and men in an unequal way, and, therefore, these ‘walls’ must also fall. This is a demanding task that requires policymakers and science leaders to adopt new perspectives, acquire new expertise, and change their established operating procedures, but much progress has been made, and therefore, Day 2 has been devoted to showing where we are now with regard to mainstreaming gender into national and regional science systems.

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