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DIVERSITY Satellite meeting

31 August 2010,

Bled, Slovenia

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DIVERSITY Workshop

30 August 2010,

Dresden, Germany


DIVERSITY Satellite Meeting

6 July 2010,

Zurich, Switzerland

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DIVERSITY European Workshop

19-21 May 2010,

Barcelona, Spain

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DIVERSITY Round-table

1 July 2010,

Torino, Italy


DIVERSITY Round-table

24-29 May 2010,

Ljubljana, Slovenia


DIVERSITY Round-table

26 January 2010,

Ioannina, Greece

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DIVERSITY Round-table

10 November 2009,

Göttingen, Germany

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DIVERSITY Round-table

22 October 2009,

Trnava, Slovakia

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DIVERSITY Workshop

28-29 October 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden

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DIVERSITY Round-table

9 June 2009, Dresden, Germany
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DIVERSITY Satellite meeting

18 May 2009, Smolenice, Slovakia
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Keep the voice of women scientists in Europe alive to make a difference! - EPWS

9 July 2009, Brussels
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Events

Thermodynamics and Transport Kinetics of Nanostructured Materials (TTk)

17-20 August 2009, Schloss Nordkirchen, Oranienburg, Germany
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NanoteC09

26-29 August 2009, Brussels, Belgium
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EUROMAT 2009

7-10 September 2009, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Welcome to the DIVERSITY Page!

Project full name:

Improving the gender diversity management in materials research institutions.

Project acronym:
DIVERSITY


DIVERSITY at a glance

DIVERSITY is a support action - type project funded by the European Commission within the 7th Framework Programme for research and technological development and addresses to the Capacities programme, part 5 Science in Society, activity 5.2.1. Gender and Research, thematic area 5.2.1.1. Strengthening the role of women in scientific research. The project has started on the 1st of January 2009 and will last 36 months.

This consortium aims to tackle the problem of under-representation of women in decision-making by fostering the change in institutional culture and changing the attitudes with regard to gender diversity in materials research organisations. In this way a more stimulating research environment in the spirit of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for their Recruitment will be achieved.

The central goal of the project is to identify the effective methods, policies and mechanisms in order to support women scientists in relation to their access to decision-making positions in the sphere of materials research, which traditionally is a male-dominated scientific field. Commitment to the promotion of women to the highest level of research is anchored at the topmost political and institutional level in DIVERSITY project.

Gender equality in science is not simply a question of fairness. To strengthen research...total human capital must be utilised.

MAPPING THE MAZE:
GETTING MORE WOMEN TO THE TOP IN RESEARCH
European Commission, 2008


Collaborating EU Networks:

www.carbio.eu