Who
participated?
People from 20 different countries have
registered for this workshop: Austria, Croatia, the Czech
Republic, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel,
Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia,
Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and the
United Kingdom.
About half of the participants have profound
gender expertise, because many participants are actually in
charge of the gender equality agenda at their organisations.
About half of the organisations having registered already have
gender equality strategies, but only about a third actually has
a Gender Action Plan. Among the participants we have a 5:1
female to male ratio.
Participating organisations include
universities and research centres, academies of science,
governmental organisations and public sector bodies, and
European scientific associations. Among others,
- Queen's University Belfast (Yvonne Galligan),
- National Research Council of Spain (CSIC) (Emilio Elizalde),
- European Forest Institute (Emi Pesonen),
- Comenius University Bratislava, Centre for Gender Studies (Mariana Szapuová, Zuzana Kizková),
- ETH Zürich (Madeleine Luethy),
- Sabanci University, MDBF (Alev Topuzoglu),
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Svandis Benediktsdottir),
- Agency for Science and Higher Education Croatia (Marina Grubišić),
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics (Marianne Bakró-Nagy),
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology (Judit Acsády, Katalin Tardos),
- Medical
University of Graz (Helga Widowitz)
- University of Innsbruck (Sabine Engel, Esther Happacher),
- University Jaume I of Castellón (Amparo Garrigues Giménez),
- Agency for
Gender Equality, Office of the Prime Minister of the
Republic of Kosovo
(Shqipe Krasniqi, Edi Gusia, Violeta Kurti Islami) - Latvian Women in
Science (Sandra Berzina)
participated.
Additionally we have invited some experts:
- Alison E. Woodward, Free University Brussels,
- Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna,
- Richard Gamauf, University of Vienna
The scientific backgrounds of the participants varied strongly, among others, they came from natural, social, and technical sciences and the humanities. Especially in creating Gender Action Plans different science cultures and academic systems can impact on the feasibility of a measure. A broad geographical and scientific diversity benefited the results of the workshop. People from different backgrounds contribute more variety of experiences, they can uncover blind spots in gender policies and come to better solutions that work in the long term. For this reason we invited especially organisations from countries in Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe to participate.