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Inequality vs inclusiveness in changing academic governance: policies, resistances, opportunities

13.10.2019

On the 16th-18th September CHANGE team members Ina Ben-Uri (Israel) and Veronika Mešková (Slovakia) participated in the conference organised by EUMENT-NET Network and the Department of Political Science University of Naples Federico II: "Inequality vs inclusiveness in changing academic governance: policies, resistances, opportunities".
Conference was focused on unconscious bias in transforming academia and strategies how to tackle them. It gave opportunity for experts and practitioners to meet, network and share their experience.
Ina Ben-Uri presented her research on gender perspective of work-family relations among college teachers, providing also information on Israeli particular context. The presentation covered the work — family relations
together with professional self-efficacy field and introduced the research objectives, hypotheses and methodology.
Veronika Mešková presented experience of University of Žilina from GEP implementing in the framework of European H2020 project, obstacles they face in this concrete university environment and partially some of the Employee Satisfaction Survey results related especially to the perception of career progression of female researchers and teachers at the University of Žilina.


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Knowledge Transfer Meeting at Tulane University

30.09.2019

On September 10th 2019 Anita Thaler and Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins had the opportunity to meet with colleagues of The Carolyn Barber-Pierre Center for Intercultural Life at Tulane University in New Orleans/USA.
Together they discussed how diversity, equity and inclusion should be integrated parts of social just higher education and research organisations.

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We are all biased!

05.09.2019

Today, as part of the tailor-made gender equality plan at the National Institute of Biology — NIB (Slovenia), our CHANGE team organized a training on unconscious bias....
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EWPS Interview Of The Month

07.08.2019

CHANGEr Anita Thaler of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) was interviewed by the European Platform of Women Scientists. The interview can be found here.
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27.6.-28.6. 2019: CREATING SYNERGIES BETWEEN PROJECTS IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE REGION

16.07.2019

Change project continues in creating synergies between gender projects also in Central & Eastern Europe region. Slovak CHANGE team member Veronika Mešková participated in the Community of Practice Inauguration and Networking Event held in Krakow on the 27th and 28th June.

It was pleasure to meet colleagues from other universities and institutions and share among us our experience and obstacles we face in the process of gender equality plans (GEP) implementation.

GeinCee Sharing Hub Tool was tested. We hope this tool will provide us support by the smooth implementation of ur GEPs.
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