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Project full name:
Improving the gender diversity management in materials research institutions.
Project acronym:
DIVERSITY
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:
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