European Gender Summit 2012

2012 Presentations Now Online

The 2012 speakers' presentations are now available to donwload.

2012 Summit Presentations

Gender Summit TV has now started broadcasting. Tune into our digital channel for exclusive interviews, background information and talks of speakers and participants.

Gender Summit TV

Start Networking

The Gender Summit Community Portal " Gender E-Quality " is now online. It allows participants to exchange knowledge, join working groups and start getting to know each other.

Gender E-Quality Portal

Research Evidence Applied

"The Gender Summit will review available evidence of how to enhance the quality of science knowledge making, and help create new markets for scientific knowledge, by addressing gender issues in research and innovation." Máire Geoghegan Quinn, EC Commission...

Join the Discussion

Join top-level researchers, innovation leaders and policy makers to examine the role of gender in Horizon 2020, the European Research Area, and the Innovation Union.

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Future of R&I

"The multi-stakeholder dialogue promoted by the Gender Summit will help redefine the research and innovation landscape." Britta Thomsen, Member of the European Parliament

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Why attend?

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"[The European Gender Summit will] help us identify realistic opportunities for implementing gender equality measures” - Máire Geoghegan Quinn

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Key Experts

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Meet distinguished speakers from key organisations including the EU Commission and Parliament, LERU, ESF, COST, ERC and NSF.

Networking

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The Summit brings together stakeholders from all fields of R&I. It showcases best practice and actively promotes dialogue.

Summit Objectives

Tangible Results

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Building on the success of the Summit Consultation & Manifesto, we focus again on collaborative consultation for integrative policy development.

Results to Date

European Gender Summit 2012

The 2012 European Gender Summit was held at the European Parliament, Brussels, on the 29 - 30 Nov 2012. It joined the excellence and equality agendas in science, as a strategic approach for enhancing full realization of the research and innovation potential in Europe.

You can download the European Gender Summit Commiuncation with a summary of the event and recommendaitons of the participants here

The timing of the 2012 EGS was important because right now policy makers at EU and national levels are deciding on the future of the European research and innovation landscape, and on the implementation details of the key initiatives, namely HORIZON 2020, European Research Area, and Innovation Union.

Participants in the European Gender Summit had the opportunity to

• IDENTIFY the best and most realistic solutions for integrating the gender dimension in research and innovation

• EXCHANGE ideas and views with top-level leaders in science and in public policy on the opportunities for advancing the gender dimension in HORIZON 2020 and in other policy initiatives

• LEARN from leading science institutions about the practical measures that they have already developed to advance gender equality in research and in higher education

• LEARN from the researchers themselves about new discoveries and a better understanding of the role of the gender dimension in many different areas of study, and how these findings can lead to new ideas and new markets for science knowledge

• Through discussion with other participants and consultation with the Summit’s on-line community, help ENRICH the advocacy strategy for excellence science by ensuring that it is sensitive to gender equality issues and to the needs and concerns of society.