Job TitleFull Professor and Chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape group Closing Date: April 22, 2024. Job description Wageningen University is recruiting an inspiring professor and chair holder to lead the Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles Group. The Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles Group focuses on the design and evaluation of theory-based interventions to foster healthy lifestyles and in particular food consumption. The Group aims to understand the drivers of healthy consumption and lifestyles among individuals and groups, and how smartly designed intervention strategies (also ..read more

  Job TitleFull Professor and Chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape group Closing Date: April 22, 2024. Job description The Soil Geography and Landscape chair group of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has an outstanding reputation in scientific research and education in the area of soil geography, landscape and earth surface dynamics. A vacancy has become available for a full professor and chair of the Soil Geography and Landscape (SGL) chair group. To know more: https://www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/full-professor-and-chair-of-the-soil-geography-and-landscape-group.htm   &nb ..read more

  Job TitleResearch Assistant position (f/m/d) (Ref. 24/01) at WIAS Berlin, Germany Closing Date: 20.05.2024 Job description The professorship represents the field of “Aerodynamics” in teaching and research. This includes in particular the analysis, design and optimization of aircraft and spacecraft, taking into account the specific challenges of compressible, unsteady flows, including flow-structure interaction. The professorship is intended to provide a link between fundamental approaches and modern interdisciplinary simulation and design methods and to further develop both experimenta ..read more

  On March 27, the EPWS President Lucia Martinelli participated with a presentation in the webinar “Digital Revolution. With or with out Her?” organized by the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights Committee and the University Women of Europe – UWE, and moderated by Anne Bergheim-Nègre (UWE President). The webinar focused the gender bias in various aspects of the artificial intelligence, including the voice and images technology, and the role of women scientist in a field of science, which will have important impact on our personal lives an ..read more

The new EU Funding & Tenders Portal is now available in its new shape: easier and more effortless to use and bring a range of novelties and funding opportunities with a simpler and powerful cutting- edge search tool. The Funding & Tenders Portal is the main entry point for funding programmes and procurement options managed by the European Commission and other EU institutions and agencies. To know more: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/home     The post The new EU Funding & Tenders Portal is available appeared first on European Platfor ..read more

    The Belgian Women in Science non-profit association (BeWiSe) invites higher education students, academics, university professionals and policy-makers to discuss the “Matilda effect”. Panel members will discuss concrete measures to make women in STEM visible. To inspire their peers, scientists will also present their latest research with a gender dimension. The conference will take place on March 8 afternoon in the beautiful and historic University Foundation in Brussels (11 rue Egmont). Free-of-charge, registration is mandatory (see the link below). BeWiSe is a full member assoc ..read more

From left to right: Dalia Šatkovskienė, Colette Guillopé and Lucia Martinelli   EPWS participated in the 2024 annual conference of COST Action VOICES at the Mediterranean University of Albania in Tirana, 15-17 February 2024     From 13 to 17 February 2024, the Mediterranean University of Albania in Tirana hosted the COST Action VOICES (Making Young Researchers’ Voices Heard for Gender Equality) 2024 annual conference focusing the prevention of gender-based violence in Higher Education. This conference was organized by the Working Group 4 – “Sexual Harassment, Gender-Based Violen ..read more

Women 20 (W20) Brazil, the official engagement group of G20 focused on promoting gender equity and women’s economic empowerment, held its first delegates’ meeting last 5 February 2024. Strong focus were reducing inequalities in all their forms, climate change and the environment and reforming the international system and reinvigorating multilateralism. As part of this emphasis the W20 Brazil Presidency revealed that it will work on five core priority areas (all underpinned by intersectionality from a race and ethnicity point of view) as follows: Women Entrepreneurs: Access to Financing, Capit ..read more

    Job TitleResearch Assistant position (f/m/d) (Ref. 24/01) at WIAS Berlin, Germany Closing Date: 22.03.2024 Job description The task is to analyze stochastic models for the dynamics and statics of large interacting systems to support and complement the research directions in the group.  We would like the successful candidate to develop contacts to other groups in the Institute.  The Institute would support the acquisition of experience with third-party funding, teaching and research supervision in preparation for a professorship. To know more: https://www.wias-berlin.de ..read more

From the left to the right: Rosarii Griffin (Cork University and e ICoRSA Board Member), Gianna Avellis (president of ICoRSA), Lucia Martinelli (president of EPWS and MUSE senior researcher) and Anna Floriello (president of the InnovaPuglia CPO).     The conference “Exploring the Gender Gap in ICT and AI: State of the Art and Future Prospects” was organized by the Equal Opportunities Committee (CPO) of the regional in-house company InnovaPuglia. Speakers included experts in the fields of ICT (information and communication technologies) and AI (artificial intelligence), political deci ..read more