GS1 Programme & Presentations

European Gender Summit 2011 Final Programme

Opening Session Day 1, Tuesday 8 November 2011

• Keynote via video link
  Mrs Máire Geoghegan - Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science
• Address
  Patricia Reilly, Cabinet of Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Research, Innovation and Science, European Commission
• Keynote
  Prof Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation (ESF)
• Welcome, on behalf of the genSET Science Leaders
  Dr Rolf Tarrach, President, University of Luxembourg

Session A1: SCIENTIFIC LEADERSHIP Equally valuing talent of women and men

Facilitator: Lawrence McGinty, Science Editor, ITV News

Chair: Prof Raymond Seltz, Secretary General, Euroscience

Roundtable:

• Defining  scientific leadership
  Prof Anders Flodström, President, The KTH  Royal Institute of Technology, Member of  the Executive Board, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
• Women’s and men’s problem solving strategies in  research teams
  Prof Kevin Dunbar, Professor, Department of Human Development in the College of  Education, University of Maryland, USA
• Diverse leadership styles
  Prof Teresa Rees, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Director for Wales, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK

Session A2: HUMAN CAPITAL Sharing duty and status in institutions

Facilitator: Dr Astrid James, Deputy Editor, The Lancet

Chair's introduction
Dr Hans Borchgrevink, Special Adviser, International Staff, The Research Council Norway (RCN)

Roundtable:

• Equality targets as a management tool
  Prof Curt Rice, Pro-rector for R&D, University of Tromsø, Norway
• To the top through the maze
  Prof Simone Buitendijk,  Vice - rector, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
• Gender Equality at the European Research Council (ERC)
  Prof Teresa Lago, Full Professor, School of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal

Session A3: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION Research norms and integrity

Facilitator: Dr Magdalena Skipper, Editor, Nature

Roundtable:

• Ambassadors and gatekeepers
  Dr Suzanne de Cheveigne, Director of Research, CNRS, France
• A framework for the Analysis  of Gender Bias in research  and medical care
  Prof Maria Teresa Ruiz Cantero, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Department Public Health, University of Alicante, Spain
• Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, and Engineering Project
  Prof Londa Schiebinger, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University Director, EU/USA

Session B1: GENDERED R&D Innovation talent of women and men

Chair: GENDERED R&D - Experiences from SINTEF
Ernst Kristiansen, Executive Vice President, SINTEF, Norway

Roundtable:

• IMPROVE - impact of gender on innovation
  Dr Wiebke Schone, Researcher, Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germnay
• Women innovators in  academia, industry and entrepreneurship
  Prof Jackie Hunter, CEO and Founder, OI Pharma Partners Ltd, UK
• Gender as a resource of new innovation
  Dr Astrid Linder, Research Director of Traffic Safety, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), Sweden

Session B2: COLLABORATIVE STRENGTH Working better as teams

Facilitator: Dr Virginia Barbour, Chief Editor, Public Library of Science (PloS), Medicine.

Chair: Prof Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation (ESF)

Round table:

• Maximising potential of gender equality in industrial R&D - Unilever’s R&D Diversity Journey
  Isabelle Esser, Vice-President Research & Development, Unilever
• Creating opportunities by crossing sectors and fields
  Prof Jürgen Popp, Professor for Physical Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Scientific Director of the Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
• Institutional synergies for collaboration
  Prof Geoffrey Boulton, General Secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK

Session B3: INTELLECTUAL ADVANTAGE Collective intelligence and social sensitivity of research

Facilitator: Dr Elisabeth Pain, Contributing Editor for Science Careers, Science Magazine

Chair: VAdm (rte) Jan Willem Kelder, Member of the Board of Management and Chairman of the  Council for Defence Research, The Netherlands Organisations for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

Roundtable:

• The collective intelligence of teams
  Dr Julia Bear, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
• Involving Industry and markets
  Prof Martina Schraudner, Professor of Gender and Diversity, Institute of Machine Tools and Factory Management, Technical University Berlin/Fraunhofer, Germany
• Gender diversity and innovative performance
  Dr Laure Turner, Head of Unit, Sectoral Studies Department, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), France
• The Women Matter project
  Mieke Van Oostende, Principal, McKinsey & Company

Opening Session Day 2, Wednesday 9 November 2011

• Keynote
  Prof Barbara Kudrycka, Minister for Science and Higher Education, Poland on behalf of the  Polish Presidency of the European Council
• Welcome, on behalf of the genSET Gender Experts
  Prof Teresa Rees, Professor, School of Social  Sciences, Cardiff University, Director for Wales, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK

Session C1: R&D AND HR STANDARDS Effective management of human resources Effective management of R&D

Chair: Prof Teresa Rees, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Director  for Wales, the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, UK

Roundtable:

• Innovative C.V.s
  Prof Rolf Tarrach, President, University of Luxembourg
• Best practice at ETH
  Thomas Eichenberger, Head, Office for Faculty Affairs, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Enabling innovativeness of teams
  Ursula Schwartzenbart, Director of Global Diversity Office and Performance & Potential Management, Daimler AG
• New Scholars Programme of the Elsevier Foundation
  Ylann Schemm, Senior Corporate Responsibility Manager, Elsevier

Session C2: LEVERAGING POLICIES AND LEGISLATION The Norwegian experience

Chair: Dr Hans Borchgrevink, Special Adviser, International Staff, RCN ( Research Council Norway)

• A solution for successful careers for the underrepresented gender?
  Dr Erik Litborn, Programme Director, VINNOVA
• Between governmental and institutional level - unique opportunities for action?
  Dr Linda Rustad and Prof Gerd Bjorhovde, The Norwegian Committee for Gender Balance in Research
• Policy approach at national level
  State Secretary Henriette Westhrin, Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion, Norway

Session C3: MOBILISING AND MOBILITY OF SCIENTIFIC TALENT Competitive advantage of gender equality

Chair: Prof Flora de Pablo, Professor of Research, Centre for Bio logical Investigation, Spanish National Research Council (CISC)

Roundtable:

• Gender equality in Swiss Universities
  Maya Widmer, Equal Opportunities in Research Funding, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• Developing young talent
  Prof Daniela Corda, Director, Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
• Promoting female scientists
  Jennifer Campbell, Director of Global Philanthropy, L’Oréal, Secretary General, L’Oréal Corporate Foundation
• Advancing women scientists in academia: The NSF Experience
  Dr Wanda Ward, Senior Advisor to the Director, The United States National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

Session C4: EXCELLENCE AND RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENCE Gender as a scientific quality value

Chair: Prof Henrik Toft Jensen, Former Rector, Roskilde University, Denmark

Roundtable:

• Academia-net
  Dr Ingrid Wünning-Tschol, Senior Vice President and Head of Department “Health and  Science”, Robert Bosch Foundation, Germany
• Gender, Biomedicine and Health
  Prof Ineke Klinge, Associate Professor of Gender Medicine, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• Gender Equality in customer driven research based policy support
  Prof Elke Anklam, Director, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Health and  Consumer Protection (IHCP)
• Gender as a quality criterion in science - Research, Innovation, and Gender
  Prof Martina Schraudner, Professor for Gender and Diversity in Organisations, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany

Session C5: EMBEDDING GENDER IN THE SCIENCE CURRICULUM Improving professional competency of researchers

Chairs Welcome
Dr Lars Haikola, University Chancellor of Sweden, Head of Högskoleverket (The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education), Sweden

Roundtable:

• Embedding through legislation
  Prof Teresa Freixes, Professor of Constitutional Law, Autonomous University Barcelona, Spain
• Creating common modules and pools of teachers
  Prof Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Professor of Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Achieving effective alignment
  Dr Lina von Sydow, Senior Lecturer, Division of Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, Sweden

Session D: GENDER ISSUES IN SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS

Facilitator: Prof Simone Buitendijk, Vice - rector , University of Leiden, The Netherlands

Roundtable:

• Dr Joan Marsh, Associate Publishing Director, Wiley - Blackwell and President, European Association of Science Editors (EASE)
• Dr Magdalena Skipper, Editor, Nature
• Dr Astrid James, Deputy Editor, The Lancet
• Prof Ulla Carlsson, Director, Nordicom Review
• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
  Dr Shirin Heidari, Executive Editor, Journal of the International AIDS Society
• Dr Elisabeth Pain, Contributing Editor for Science Careers, Science Magazine

Plenary Session: Policy for creating  agender and  socially responsive science and innovation environment

Facilitator: Directorate General Research and Innovation, European Commission

Roundtable:

• Prof Marja Makarow, Chief Executive, European Science Foundation (ESF)
• Nik Everrat, R&D HR Director, Unilever
• Prof Inés Sanchéz de Madariaga, Head of the  Women and Science Unit, Cabinet of the Minister, Spanish Ministry of Scienc e and Innovation
• VAdm (rte) Jan Willem Kelder, Member of the Board of Management and Chairman of the Council for Defence Research, The Netherlands Organisations for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
• Dr Ángeles Rodríguez - Peña, President of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Committee of Senior Officials
• Prof Anders Flodström, President, The KTH Royal Institute of Tec hnology & Board Member of The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)