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Women in DINAMICS
Gender statistics
According a gender statistic (2008-2009) on the workforce employed by the DINAMICS project, the percentage of women involved in the project is near 27%.
Profiles of women in DINAMICS
Interesting Projects, Networks, Documents, Links and Conferences & Workshops
- EC - Science and Society Portal - Women and Science
EC website about women in science.
Women and Science
- European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS)
Located in Brussels, the European Platform of Women Scientists supports the work of a whole range of existing national, European and international networks of women scientists from all disciplines (natural, medical and social sciences, engineering and technology, the humanities and arts).
Furthermore, the Platform aims to make women scientists better understand the role they can play in the research policy debate and how to fully benefit from these opportunities by bundling their powers and forces.
EPWS
- European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT)
The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is a sustainable European multi-stakeholder partnership representing high-level expertise in women and technology development from business, government, academia and non-profit sectors and supporting regional innovation through leveraging resources, research, best practices and services.
The decision to establish the ECWT was taken on the 9th of May 2008 by the International Taskforce for Women and ICTs (ITF) - Europe and the statutes were approved by the founders on 18th of July 2008.
The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is a European non-profit organization registered under Norwegian law.
ECWT functions as the European Regional Point of Contact (R-POC), one of the Ten Regional Centres presently being established around the world, which together constitute Global Women and Technology (GWT).
The European Centre advocates the establishment of a National Point of Contact (N-POC) in each country functioning as a national platform of multi-stakeholders to ensure women's full participation in ICT and related sectors.
The Secretariat of the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is at the regional innovation centre Papirbredden Innovasjon in Drammen, Norway.
ECWT
- Network "WomenInNano"
The Specific Support Action (SSA) “Strengthening the Role of Women Scientists in Nano-Science” = WomenInNano is funded by the 6th Framework programme of the European Commission in “Science and Society”/ "Women and Science". It brings together 11 partners from 9 European countries - Germany, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Italy and France – under the coordination of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden, Germany. The basic idea of the project is to allow high-level women scientists working in Nano-science to act as Ambassadors for Women and Science in order to raise awareness of gender issues in science (more specific, in Nano-Science) and to provide ‘role models’ for girls and women, with a view to encouraging them to consider studies and pursue careers in scientific fields. The project will empower and enlarge the women scientists group working in Nano-Science and increase its visibility in the international scientific community. WomenInNano proposes a series of activities, which will create and stimulate structural links at national, trans-national, regional and trans-regional level between scientists (female and male), policy makers and society at large.
Final Report: STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN NANOSCIENCE
Jobbourse
- Women Innovators for Europe - WENETT
WENETT is a European initiative that joins forces with local support networks to inform businesswomen and women scientists (Women Innovators) about the benefits of building European cooperations.
WENETT
- Enterprising Women in European Research Mentoring India, Israel, Romania and Turkey - WE-Mentor
- Opportunities for women in business to get involved in European research projects -
WE-Mentor is building on a partnership of 10 EU member states organised in the consortium of the recently completed project "WomEn2FP6".
Four EU Member states (Belgium, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom) take the lead to mentor 4 "new-comers" to the topic of integrating women entrepreneurs into European Research (India, Israel, Romania and Turkey).
WE-Mentor
- Universities debate female start-ups - FemStart
FemStart will actively encourage the public debate on why so few women scientists start their own business on graduation.
FemStart will raise awareness of the issue, deliver good practices and allow discussion by organising a series of events at 6 universities (in Stuttgart, Germany: February 2007 -- Valencia, Spain: May 2007 -- Wroclaw, Poland: October 2007, Riga, Latvia: January 2008 -- Twente, The Netherlands: September 2008 and Bucharest, Romania: November 2008).
FemStart
- nano4women
nano4women is a career-network for (junior-) scientists, which has been launched on 18th November, 2005, in the course of an international conference and career day in nanotechnologies to become a cross-national network.
Project nano4women
- Project NEnA
NEnA = nano4women + Entrepreneurship.
A nation-wide initiative to promote the entrepreneurial autonomy of young scientists in nanotechnologies.
Project NEnA
Conferences & Workshops
- 24th and 25th September 2008 (Enschede, NL): Conference on women and high-tech entrepreneurship
The EU-funded FemStart project is organising a "Conference on women and high-tech entrepreneurship" to be held in Enschede (The Netherlands) on 24th-25th September 2008.
The conference is divided into three sessions: "Female High Tech Starters and their Affairs"; "In the course of time: Synthesis of individual entrepreneurial experiences"; "Encouraging entrepreneurial talents. Examples of good practices".
