Women in Science conference presentation

1. M-WISET
THE MOBILE WOMEN IN
SCIENCE GROUP OF THE
MCFA
Maria BOSTENARU DAN

2. Overview
 m-WiSET history
 m-WiSET coordiantors
 m-WiSET activities
 m-WiSET member achievements
 Conclusion (approaches)

3. M-WiSET

4. M-WiSET history
 At the begin Science in Policy group (still
existing)
 Studies of Magda Lola (group leader), working at
Human Ressources at CERN on equal
opportunities among others
 Antonella di Trapani at her time chairing the
MCFA founded „Women in science“

5. Mobile Women in Science,
Engineering and Technology
Promote mobility among women scientists
Empower women scientists and discourage
discrimination and marginalisation
Foster gender equality and scientific
excellence in SET
Encourage the promotion of equality policies
at national and European level

6. M-WiSET webpage

7. M-WiSET current coordinators

8. Dual career and mobility
against the brain drain
Gianna Avellis
Senior researcher
Innovapuglia, SPA, Bari
(Italy)
Nationality Italian
Research field Computer science
Lived in Italy, UK

9. Through mobility you can learn
more of the way of life
of people in other places
Nationality: Romanian, Hungarian
Research field: architecture engineering
Lived in: Germany, Italy,
Canada, Portugal, Hungary
Maria Bostenaru
Research assistant
« Ion Mincu » University of
Architecture and Urbanism,
Bucharest, Romania

10. I.I. KiskunfelegyházaKiskunfelegyháza, Hungary, Hungary
Photo by SG
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III. Pisa, Italy &III. Pisa, Italy &
Montreal, CanadaMontreal, Canada
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11. M-WiSET activities

12. M-WiSET activities
 ESOF sessions (Barcelona, Turin, Dublin, Copenhagen)
 m-WiSET booklet
 Promoted at the Marie Curie Conference in Warsaw
 Dedicated session in Dublin
 Invitations to other events
 Conference under the EU presidency in Budapest (2011)
 Portraits of role models (interview with Irish journalists,
portrait for EU gallery etc)
 Invited in a committee about promotion of Women in
Japan (5 years programme starting with programme
„Water“)
 International observer and WG3 member in genderSTE
 Collaboration with WIRES, ECWT, Italian association

13. Our Booklet
Antonella Di Trapani
Eleni Chatzichristou
Gianna Avellis
Silvia Giordani
Corinne Martin
Reia Chmielowski
Maria Bostenaru
Natalia Balcazar
Svetlana Baca
Theodota Lagouri
Nusrat Sanghamitra
Elena Martines
Sylvie Blangy
ADD LINK TO BOOKLET HERE

14.  Presentation of coordinators and Silvia
according to the booklet

15. Conferences
 EU Presidency conferences
 Warsaw – booklet stand
 Budapest – session
 Vilnius – poster; cooperation genderSTE
 Rome – genderSTE conference
 ESOF sessions – from science policy to
women in science
 Invited WIRES
 Unfortunately no Gender Summit

16. Warsaw
 Marie Curie
Conference 2011
under the Polish
presidency
 Tour to Marie Curie
roots (in the Letter
to Members)
 Booklet stand
 Launch of the
MCAA

17. Budapest
 “Career Paths and
Mobility of Women
Researchers” at
“Training, Career and
Mobility of
Researchers in the
Innovation Union” June
28-29, 2011, Budapest,
Hungarian EU
Presidency conference
Maria BOSTENARU DAN – sharing the
Experience of a Marie Curie researcher
Gianna AVELLIS – representing m-WiSET

18. ESOF
 Stockholm 2004 – partner
in the Career Programme
 Barcelona 2008 – Should I
stay or should I go
 Turin 2010 – dual career
 Dublin 2012 – role models
(booklet)
 Copenhagen 2014
together with ESF
including also virtual
mobility (and a speaker
who did her PhD with
Marie Curie in Hungary)

19. WIRES
 Online meetings 2013
 Energy Research
 The Grid
 Biofuels and Sustainable Energy
 Learning and Gender Studies
 Materials
 Information Technology
 Water
 Conference 2014 Trondheim, Norway

20. Cooperation with other networks
 ECWT
 Italian Association for Women Scientists
 Women in ICT
 In detail:
 WIRES
 DFG
 COST - genderSTE

21. WIRES
Maria BOSTENARU DAN
“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture
and Urbanism
maria.bostenaru@iaim.ro
Early 20th century architecture
Disaster management
(earthquakes), reconstruction
Digital methods
Research partners needed
For example for exchange (the continuation of IRSES in
Horizon 2020) or for Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowships
From Europe: ERASMUS partners in urban planning
(we are in the ANDROID and Le:Notre networks)
Conference session organisation
Maria BOSTENARU DAN
Marie Curie Fellows Association
Maria.Bostenaru-Dan@alumni.kit.edu
Mobile women in science,
engineering and technology
Science policy
Research partners needed
Promotion of role models
Possibility to publish stories of such women
Maria BOSTENARU DAN
Personal Interests
involvement in
NGOs/participation:
Here: HaDiKo
travel
cooking
photography
folk music and dress

22. genderSTE
 Women and energy and climate change
 Review of Horizon2020 paper
 Collaboration with Vienna (landscape issues and
natural disasters)
 Participation Sapgeric – Lithuanian presidency
conference 2013
 Submitted for engendering cities – Italian
presidency conference 2014

23. DFG cooperation
 „Women in global science“ – 5 years
programme at the Hokkaido University Japan
 Symposium 2014 „Water“
http://wings.synfoster.hokudai.ac.jp/international-
symposia/sym-2014/information/
call ends 10 April 2014
in the selection committee

24. Interviews
 For the EC
 „Women who travel“ – journal of the EC 2012
 Gallery of women in research – to be released
April 2014
 For Radio Romania Cultural (2012)
 About Marie Curie actions
 About Marie Curie women in science
 About own experience – feature „born in
Romania“ (after 20 years)
 For German media – on ESOF 2012 Dublin

25. Member achievements

26. Member achievements
 Silvia Giordani – L„Oreal women in science
prize
 My personal story
 Pioneer women architects (work in Romania)
 Gender issues in Horizon 2020 (work in
genderSTE)
 From both an STSM in Hungary envisaged, and
contacts made during current fellowship
 Borbála Faragó – gender issues MC IEF

27. Mobility is a true privilege
Nationality Italian
Research field Chemistry and Nanoscience
Lived in Italy, USA, Ireland
Silvia Giordani
Research Asssistant Professor
Trinity College Dublin

28. Radio interview, booklet
First woman architect in the world – Virginia Haret

29. Women history in Hungary
 Dr. Nagy Maria
diploma
 genderSTE
STSM
proposal to
Hungary
 Contacts with
architecture
historians
 Looking into
the „water“
issues –
natural
disasters and
landscape,
bathes and
gender

30. Transnational women literature
 Borbála Faragó
 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at CEU
Budapest, with symposium

31. Conclusion

32. Conclusion
 We used the following sociological approaches
 Statistics of human ressources
 Surveys and their evaluation
 Case study approach (role models)
 We are looking at
 Contemporary women in science – examples
from the association
 Approach to women around a certain topic (cities
in genderSTE, water in Japan symposium,
different other topics at WIRES, ICT at ECWT)

33. Thank you!