8 Nov 2016, European Parliament

Paul-Henri Spaak Building, Room: Hemicycle

Arrivals and registration 

08:30 - 10:15
Hemiclye

_{This session will start at 9:00, please take your seats by 8:30 for security reasons.}

Plenary: Role of policy in achieving societal well-being through science and technology

Research and innovation are perceived by many policy makers around the world today as holding the key to improving socio-economic and environmental conditions for all. Although policies to achieve gender equality in society have been promoted for some time now, they have not been integrated into the STEM policy frameworks. In this session, leading policy experts discuss the synergies and benefits of aligning these two areas more closely.

Chair: Iratxe Garćia Pérez, Chair, European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)

B. Mario Pinto, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada

• Video address
  Commissioner Carlos Moedas, (2014-2019), Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission
• The importance of the involvement of women in STI for the development of nations
  Minister Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa
• Promoting women innovators and advancing people's quality of life through research-based inventions
  Prof Marja Makarow, Director, Biocentre Finland; Member, Gender in the Nordic Research and Innovation Area Programme Committee, NordForsk

10:15 - 10:30
Hemicyle

10:30 - 11:45
Hemicycle

Plenary: Tackling gender inequalities in Health

The importance of improving the health of a population, and health standards, is universally recognized as essential to socioeconomic well-being of individuals and societies. In this session leading experts will compare the health status of women and men across the globe; show evidence of gender differences in disease trends, including mental health and illness, and explain why health policies must target gender disparities in healthcare.

Chair: Beatriz Becerra, Rapporteur, European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)

Dr Beverley A. Damonse, Group Executive: Science Engagement and Corporate Relations, National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF)

• Gender trends and patterns in non-communicable diseases in Europe and globally
  Prof Robyn Norton, Co-Director, The George Institute for Global Health; Professor of Global Health; James Martin Professorial Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
• Global Call for Action to strengthen mental health in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  Nicole Votruba, Co-ordinator, FundaMentalSDG; Researcher at the Centre for Implementation Science, The Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) South London, Kings College London, UK

11:45 - 12:30
Hemicycle

Plenary: Gender Summit - global policy impact

Since it was created in Europe in 2011, the Gender Summit has evolved into a global platform were scientific evidence is examined and good practice is shared to reach consensus on when and how gender issues impact on quality of science knowledge, practice and institutions, and where improvements are needed. The purpose of this session is for the GS partners who are leading the work done in different regions to report on the progress made so far, and in the impacts hoped for in the future.

Chair: Elissavet Vozmerg-Vrionidi, Member, European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)

Dr Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director, Portia Ltd, UK; Gender Summit co-founder

• Toward Gender Summit 10 in Japan
  Dr Miyoko Watanabe, Deputy Executive Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); Director, Office for Diversity and Inclusion, JST, Japan and Prof Kumie Inose, Vice-President, Science Council of Japan
  
• Global Policy Impact of Gender Summit: Korea’s Initiatives and Challenges
  Prof Heisook Lee, Principal Research Fellow, Center for Gendered Innovation in Science & Technology Researches (GISTeR); Professor Emeritus, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
• Taking Stock of Gender Summits and Upcoming Plans
  Serge Villemure, Director, Scholarships, Fellowships and Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada and Prof Maryse Lassonde, President, Royal Society of Canada; Director, Quebec Natural Sciences and Technology Granting Agency, Canada
  

8 Nov 2016, BEL Brussels

Plenary: Improving quality of STEM gender equality indicators

Gender indicators provide a way of measuring change and there are many that have been developed already. But we need to agree what kind of inators are best; what should be measured; what principles to adopt when making these decisions; how to adapt the collection and analysis of data to specific national, field or science system contexts; and how to calibrate data collection and analysis methods to enable systematic comparisons to be made between gender equality situations in research, innovation and socio-economic development.

Chair: Prof Jacques Mairesse, Professor, Maastricht University, Netherlands

• Improving gender balance in research grant applications
  Prof Mark W. J. Ferguson, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland
• Developing better measures of gender equality in STEM: the UNESCO SAGA project
  Martin Schaaper, Programme Specialist, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• She Figures: data gaps and limitations, as well as future directions
  David Campbell, Chief Scientist, Science-Metrix
• Nordic research and innovation data collaboration 
  Dr Lotta Strandberg, Senior Adviser, NordForsk
• Extracting STEM gender indicators from published sources
  Rachel Herbert, Senior Market Intelligence Manager, Strategy, Elsevier
• Measuring gender gaps in Science, Technology and Innovation in Latin America
  Dr Matteo Grazzi, Economist Competitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division,  Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Plenary: Social impact and responsibility of science and science policy

This session goes beyond a scientist's professional responsibility to protect science and society from misconduct in scientific research. Knowledge has to be reliable according to agreed scientific criteria but it also should be relevant and robust according to societal impact criteria one of which is to ensure equality of outcomes for women and men. The focus here is on societal context of science knowledge making, and how science policy can promote mission-driven applications of science knowledge and demonstrate societal benefits of science endeavours.

Chair: Prof Mieke Verloo, Professor of Comparative Politics and Inequality Issues, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

• Gender (in)equality in Human Papilloma Virus vaccinations and treatment
  Prof Giampiero Favato, Director of the Institute of Leadership & Management in Health, Kingston Business School, Kingston University London, UK
• Shaping the Roadmap for RRI learning from the experience of advancing gender in STEM
  Ana Arana-Antelo, Head of Unit, Science With and For Society, Directorate General Research & Innovation, European Commission
• Risk, masculinity and gender equality
  Prof Ulf Mellström, Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden
•  Innovation Policies for Inclusive Growth
  Dr Caroline Paunov, Senior Economist at the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, OECD

Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) is NordForsk’s most important funding instrument to increase and facilitate cooperation between excellent researchers, researcher groups or institutions in the Nordic countries. This session will showcase some of the NCoE’s work on gender and science.

Chair: Dr Lotta Strandberg, Senior Adviser, NordForsk

• Gender Equality in Research and Innovation: Research Agenda for NORDICORE (Nordic Centre for Research on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation)
  Prof Mari Teigen, Research professor, Head of CORE – Centre for research on gender equality, The Institute for Social Research, Norway
• Beyond the Gender Paradox: Women’s Careers in Technology-Driven Research and Innovation In and Outside of Academe
  Prof Gabriele Griffin, Professor, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden

9 Nov 2016, BEL Brussels

Arrivals and coffee

Please make sure you bring your badge with you on both days.

Plenary: Strategic priorities for regional STEM gender equality policy

The European Commission has adopted gender mainstreaming as the strategy to achieve gender equality, often interpreted as ensuring equal opportunities for women and men. In relation to science - and post ETAN report - the main focus has been on the position of women in science. But, Horizon 2020 has expanded the role of gender mainstreaming to include also science knowledge, science practice, and institutional structures. Speakers in this session will reflect on the strategies and interventions adopted in their countries and the role that historical, cultural and operational differences in the way science systems are structured and function have influenced policy priorities and actions.

Chair: Prof Martina Schraudner, Head of Department, Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Technical University Berlin, and Director of Centre for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany

• Strategies to tackle gender inequalities in STEM in the Nordic countries
  Prof Marja Makarow, Director, Biocentre Finland; Member, Gender in the Nordic Research and Innovation Area Programme Committee, NordForsk
• Rolling out systematic approach to gender mainstreaming in academia in Sweden
  Fredrik Bondestam, Director, Unit for Gender Research, Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, Sweden
• STEM and gender in South Africa. Taking an intersectional perspective
  Dr Beverley A. Damonse, Group Executive Science Engagement and Corporate Relations, National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
• Expanding the dialogue on diversity to benefit STEM
  Dr B. Mario Pinto, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada
• Latest lessons from the ADVANCE programme
  Dr Sonia Ortega, Head, NSF Europe-Eurasia Office, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

Plenary: Developing and implementing gender equality measures for fair advancement in STEM careers

During the last few years, many research performing and funding organisations have responded to the evidence of gender bias in institutional practices and processes, and to the calls for action to promote equal opportunities and terms for women and men to enter STEM fields and succeed in their science career aspirations. Speakers in this session will reflect on the accumulating experience of delivering institutional change; discuss common gaps and problems in implementing gender equality plans, as well as any contextual issues that influence outcomes.

Chair: Prof Mari Teigen, Research professor, Head of CORE – Centre for research on gender equality, The Institute for Social Research, Norway

• GENERA: Measuring, monitoring, and advancing gender equality in Physics RPOs
  Dr Thomas Berghöfer, Senior researcher, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
• LIBRA: Measuring, monitoring, and advancing gender equality in Life Sciences RPOs
  Prof Isabelle Vernos, ICREA Research Professor, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Spain; Member of the European Research Council (ERC) scientific Council, Europe
• Accelerating action to tackle sources of gender imbalance
  Dr Kas Maessen, Policy Development and Support, Co-ordinator Granting and Procedures, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands
• Practicing excellence in European Research Council (ERC) panels
  Dr Helene Schiffbänker, Senior Researcher, Technology, Innovation and Policy Consulting Group, POLICIES — Institute for Economic and Innovation Research, Joanneum Research, Austria

12:40 - 13:40
Atrium

Parallel sessions 1

Parallel 1A: Integrating sex and gender in research and researcher training (selected abstracts)

This session examines the role of sex, gender and environment as independent and co-joint determinants of research and innovation outcomes. The discussion will reflect on how sex-gender analysis should be integrated into research process, and into researcher training.

Chair: Prof Lars Warngord, Director Planning and Process Development, Forte, Sweden

• Gender analysis in the relationship between red and processed meat intake and colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  Prof Hee Young Paik, Director, Center for Gendered Innovations in Science and Technology Research (GISTeR), Korea Federation of Women's Science & Technology Associations, South Korea
• Implementing Gender Medicine: Strategies in Europe
  Sarah Hiltner, Award Winner of the German National Congress of Gender Health (Bundeskongress GenderGesundheit)
• Parenthood and the risk of cardiovascular diseases among 0.5 million men and women
  Dr Sanne Peters, Research Fellow in Epidemiology, The George Institute for Global Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
• Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women
  Mary Olson, Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Specialist, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, (NIRS) USA
• Status Quo of the Integration of Sex and Gender Aspects in Medical Education in German Universities
  Sabine Ludwig, Research Officer, Department of Medical Education, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
  The contents of this presentation are not publically available. The presenter has suggested the following article as an alternative: A Successful Strategy to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into a Newly Developed Medical Curriculum
• A Reversed Gender Pattern? A Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Suicidal Self-Injurious Behaviour Among Chinese Adolescents
  Prof Xueyan Yang, Visiting Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University, USA

Parallel 1B: Transforming organizational structures, practices, and working conditions in a systematic way (selected abstracts)

This session examines and compares strengths and weaknesses of system-level methods and approaches to removing barriers to gender equality, and identifies key conditions for creating supportive working environments.

Chair: Dr Rachel Palmén, Researcher, notus applied social research/FGB, Spain

• Time to Care in Research Funding: Exploring the Paradox between "Time to Care" Allowances and the "Ideal Academic"
  Dr Claartje Vinkenburg, Associate Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
• EDGE Initiative at Elsevier: Leading the Way Through Diversity
  Rano Burkhanova, Head of Talent Development Europe, Human Resources, Elsevier, The Netherlands
  
• Fix the system - not women: gender equality in Irish Higher Education
  Dr Gemma Irvine, Head of Policy and Strategic Planning, Higher Education Authority (Beatriz Becerra), Ireland
• Linking EURAXESS, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and GEPs
  Dr Hans M. Borchgrevink, Former Director of Medicine, and Special Adviser for International Affairs Staff, The Research Council of Norway (RCN).

Parallel 1C: Communicating gender to inform policy and change societal attitudes (selected abstracts)

This session focuses on how to communicate research evidence to inform and enlighten policy makers and the wider public about gender issues in STEM and demonstrate the benefits of gender equality actions for science, innovation and development.

Chair: Prof Maryse Lassonde, President, Royal Society of Canada; Director, Quebec Natural Sciences and Technology Granting Agency, Canada

• Sex and Gender Requirements in Biomedical and Public Health Funding
  Dr Sarah Singh, PhD Candidate, Maastricht University, Netherlands
• Policy Learning through a Gender Equality Online Platform
  Dr Anke Lipinsky, Senior Researcher, Laura Getz, Scienctific Associate, Gesis - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germnay
  
• How to make a case for gender diversity to people who don’t know why they should care
  Alison Bert, Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Connect
• Supporting Gender Awareness in Research Practice and Uptake
  Nick Perkins, Director, SciDev.Net

Parallel 2A: Developing and testing gender equality plans and interventions for structural change in research performing organisations

This session focuses on the achievements of EU-funded projects in advancing gender equality in STEM institutions by promoting measures leading to structural change, and in particular the use of Gender Equality Plans

Chair: Dr Claartje Vinkenburg, Associate Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

• GEAR Action Toolbox
  Nina Baumeister, Policy Officer, Gender Sector, Science with and for Society Unit, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission
• GENOVATE Model for Gender Equality in Transforming Research and Innovation
  Prof Uduak Archibong, Professor of Diversity, University of Bradford, UK
  
• The String Theory Universe
  Prof Maria Antonia Lledo Barrena, Professor of Physics, Departament de Física Teòrica and IFIC (Universitat de Valencia-CSIC), Spain
  
• PLOTINA gender balance in research, innovation and training
  Prof Tullia Galina Toschi, Professor, President of the UNIBO Committee for Equal Opportunity, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy.
• GENERA Careers in physics - which perspectives for women?
  Prof Sveva Avveduto, Research Director, National Research Council (CNR), Italy 
  

Parallel 2B: Interventions to improve participation, retention, and leadership

This session reports on the current status and experience of the actions taken by different institutions to improve women's participation in STEM fields, at each level, and tackle sources of inequalities that prevent women from succeeding in STEM careers on the same terms as men.

Chair: Dr Jörg Müller, Senior researcher, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3); Coordinator, GenPORT, Spain.

• Sex in Science at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute: Embedding Gender Equality within Leadership
  Dr Saher Ahmed, Athena SWAN Project Manager, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), UK
• Gender in research content: Experiences from an Austrian programme
  Dr Angela Wroblewski, Senior researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Austria 
   Gender in research content: Experiences from an Austrian programme Report
  
• 50:50 Participation in Pre-19 Engineering Education
  Dr Sally Day, Senior Lecturer and Dr Elpida Makrygiann, Engineering Education Developer and Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London, UK
• Women in academia: living outside of the average
  Dr Charikleia (Charoula) Tzanakou, Research Fellow, Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick, UK
• Female Retention in Engineering & Technology using Problem Based Learning
  Dr Karen Wosczyna-Birch, State Director, CT College of Technology; Executive Director & Principal Investigator, Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, USA
  

Parallel 2C: Framework for international collaboration to improve institutions and accelerate change

This session will discuss the power of sharing narratives around successes and failures of practices aimed at improving gender equity in STEM and public life. It will also examine initiatives that address inclusivity of indigenous peoples, and other underrepresented groups, to speed up adoption of equality programming in all parts of the world.

• Prof Hilary Lappin-Scott, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Strategic Development, Swansea University, Wales, UK
  
• Equity and Diversity in STEMM:  Australia’s current efforts
  Dr Melanie Thomson, Executive Steering Committee, Women in Science Australia, Australia
  
• Prof Imogen Coe, Dean of the Faculty of Science; Professor of chemistry and biology, Ryerson University, Canada
• Amy Kordiak, European Lead, Chwarae Teg/Fair Play, Wales, UK
• Hayley Dunne,  Strategic Lead for Delivery, Chwarae Teg/Fair Play, Wales, UK
  

Parallel 2D: Connecting gender science and sustainable development

The next decades will be marked by many important policy initiatives, such as the SDGs, the Horizon 2020 and others. This session will show the importance of connecting science, gender and development issues in global and/or international policy agendas. The speakers will report on their experience of working with science policy at different levels and regions and bringing a gender perspective into their work.

Chair: Prof Alice Abreu, Director, GenderInSITE; Emeritus Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil

• Prof Maryse Lassonde, President, Royal Society of Canada; Director, Quebec Natural Sciences and Technology Granting Agency, Canada
• Prof Inés Sanchez de Madariaga, UNESCO Chair on Gender Equality Policies in Science, Technology and Innovation
• Prof Gloria Bonder, UNESCO Regional Chair on Women, Science and Technology; GenderInSITE Regional Focal Point for Latin America and the Caribbean