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European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY 2011-1, STAGES, Structural Transformation to Achieve Gender Equality in Science (SiS.2011.2.1.1.-1)
Project co-funded by the General Inspectorate for relations with the European Union of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (IGRUE).
UAIC Research Group on Gender Equality in Science is a multidisciplinary research team set up within the frame of the STAGES project in order to conduct scientific studies and evaluations on Gender Equal Opportunities in Romanian educational and research institutions, particularly at the UAIC (see the main objectives, research group members, research and publications).
Since 2013, "Gender Equality in Science" is a theme for PhD studies at the UAIC. Prof. dr. Doina Balahur, scientific coordinator for PhD in Sociology, announced the topics and the bibliography for 2014 candidates competition. As for 2013, the research will be carried out in cooperation with the FP7 European project STAGES at the UAIC. (more info here).
The high-level conference "Structural Change Promoting Gender Equality in Research Organizations" was organized, under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency of the European Union, by the University of Vilnius, with the financial support of the European Commission. The President of the Republic of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, who was present at the opening ceremony, has addressed a welcome message to the participants – over 200 representatives of research institutions, funding agencies, scientific associations, researchers and policy makers from the EU countries. The Conference was a successful event by the opportunity offered to the European gender experts to exchange ideas and to share experiences on good practices in order to identify new models, strategies and methods to promote gender equality in R&I.
In the session "Structural change for gender equality at universities and research institutions", Prof. dr. Doina Balahur, coordinator of the UAIC STAGES project, was one of the invited speakers, together with Prof. Teresa Rees, Cardiff University; Leadership Foundation (Chair); Dr. Katrien Maes, LERU Gender Equality Committee (Rapporteur), Prof. Jadranka Gvozdanovic, LERU/ Heidelberg University and Dr. Anne Pépin, Mission for the Place of Women at CNRS-France (Speakers).( http://www.sapgeric.eu2013.vu.lt/speakers/ ).
In her communication, titled "Structural transformations to achieve gender equality in science: the experience and good practice from the oldest university in Romania", Prof. Doina Balahur has presented the activities of the UAIC-STAGES project as an empirical support for her theoretical proposal of a new model of understanding and practicing the structural change, named Fixing the transformative and formative praxis. (see the communication pdf).