GENDER BALANCE
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Dr. Clara Gomes
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Dr. Mafalda Sarraguça
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Gender equality is a key issue in modern society which affects all aspects of life, from labour and the economy to health, education, and domestic life. One of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals is to “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”, reflecting the global importance of gender equality.
Further information on Gender Balance issues can be found on:
- European Research Council Gender Balance Working Group - Read more
- Gender Equality in Academia and Research - GEAR tool - Read More
- Finding Success as a Dual-Career Couple - Read More
- UK Royal Society’s YouTube video with some advice about counteracting unconscious bias - Read More
- Project Implicit – test for unconscious bias - Read More
- GENDER-NET ERA-NET - Read More
- Information about Women's participation in COST Actions - video on COST's YouTube channel - Read More
- Launching on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science – 11 February 2021. Woman Scientist of the month Interviews 2018-2020 - Portraits of 23 distinguished women scientists, committed to gender and European issues, from different countries, disciplines, and ages - Read More
At MechSustInd we aim to nurture gender balance by ensuring equal opportunities across the network for participation, mobility, and training. MechSustInd’s contribution to achieve gender balance during the execution of the Actions, as one of COST Programme’s policies, is as follows:
- The Action Chair and Vice Chair, Dr. Evelina Colacino and Prof. Lucia Maini, are female researchers.
- The Core Group of the Action are gender balanced, close to the 50%-50% target foreseen by the European Commission.
- Male researchers are more represented as critical mass of the Action and within the Working Groups.
- The participants in the Activities of STSM were mostly female researchers, whereas in Trainings Schools the participation is more gender balanced.
Taking this statistical data into account (see pie charts below), MechSustInd will continue to make all efforts to achieve better gender equality ratios.
Total Members
Early Career Investigators
Core Group
TS Croatia
TS Malta
WG1
WG2
WG3
STSM GP1
STSM GP2
CONTACT INFO
COST
COST ACTION CA18112
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation