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DRAFT AGENDA
Working Group 1 Meeting - COST Targeted Network TA1201
“ENGENDERING STEM1 DISCIPLINES.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN ACADEMIA: RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, PROMOTION
AND LEADERSHIP OF WOMEN”
Date 30th-March 2015
Venue: Salão Nobre, Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa
Alameda da Universidade, Cidade Universitária,
1649-004 Lisboa, Portugal
Day 1 – Monday, 30th March
Session open to the public
08:30
Registration
Welcome
09:00-09.30
 Action Chair, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga
 Vice-Rector Rogério Gaspar, University of Lisbon,
 President João Pardal Monteiro, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon
 Coordinator Rita Almendra, CIAUD, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon
Round table 1: Recruitment and leadership in technical universities: two sides of the same
coin? Perspectives from rectors and decision makers.
 University: Challenges and wastes, Helena Nazaré, Former Rector, University of Aveiro,
9:30-11.30
President EUA, PT
 Women’s Leadership in Technical Universities, Gülsün Sağlamer, Former Rector, Technical
University of Istanbul, TR
 Gender Certification and other ”tricks-of-the-trade” to improve gender balance –
experience from Lund university, Tomas Brage, Head of Core Value Project, Director of
Education and Professor of Physics at Lund University, SE
1
STEM – Acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
 Gender Equality at universities of science and technology in Europe, Manfred Horvat,
Vienna Institute of Technology, CESAER Senior Advisor, AT
Moderated by Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Technical University of Madrid, former Director of
Women and Science Unit, SP
11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
Keynote Speech: What is specific of structural change and gender equality plans in technical
12:00-13.00
universities and fields?
 Dagmar Simon, Head of Research Group, WZB, Berlin Social Science Centre, DE
Followed by discussion with audience
13:00-14.00 Lunch break
Round table 2: What do we know about women and structural change in engineering and
other technical fields? State of the art
 Institutional and political framework conditions – new public management, the
entrepreneurial self and social discomfort, Brigitte Ratzer, Technical University of Vienna,
AT
 What do we know about women and structural change in engineering and other technical
14:00:15:30
fields? State of the art. Presentation of Projects, Svandis Benediktsdottir, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, NO
 Structural change and gender equality in engineering and other technical fields, a
perspective from Morocco, Fatema Mosseddaq, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire
Hassan II, MO
 Careers in engineering and technology research in Europe: Quo vadis gender equality?
Anita Thaler, IFZ (Inter-university research centre for technology work and culture) Graz
Moderated by Caroline Belan-Menagier, Ministry of Research and Education, FR
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Round table 3: Strategies for attracting women into technical areas. Addressing the views
16:00-17:30
of young people and of early stage researchers.
 Improving gender equality from the first stage of research careers: the need for structural
changes in the PhD process, Carole Chapin, Eurodoc, FR
 Good image? Bad image? – A gender perspective on young people’s perception on STEM,
Jennifer Dahmen, University of Wuppertal, GE
 Learning from first year students and withdrawers in engineering studies how to attract
women into technical areas, Andrea Wolffram, Leibniz University of Hannover, GE
 Gender order in technical and IT higher education, Corvinus University of Budapest, HU
17:30
Moderated by Sofia Morgado, FA-University of Lisbon, PT
Closing
Dinner at EntreCopos
Please send confirmation to smorgado@fa.ulisboa.pt/ineslmoreira@gmail.com