Science without borders: Improving impact by interlinking gender, geographic, disciplinary and educational dimensions.
28 - 29 April 2016, Mexico City
This Gender Summit aims to highlight how science can be a tool to break all kinds of borders: gender, geographic, disciplinary and educational borders. The kind of science able to break these boundaries comes from an environment of diversity and inclusion, key elements to innovation.
The GS8 will introduce the Latin American perspective to the second North American Gender Summit and will move towards an exercise of a multi-sector dialogue and a multidisciplinary reflection that enriches the development of policy instruments for gender equality in the field of science and technology.
Main Objectives:
Addressing gender issues in science and technology from a multidisciplinary approach.
Innovating from a gender perspective.
Achieving sustainable development through science and gender equality.
Adding the Latin American voice to the Gender Summit movement.
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: 15 February 2016, 23:59pm UTC/GMT
Language: English
Template: (max. 500 words on 1 page)
Abstracts selected for: Presentation in parallel sessions; as part of the GS8 Poster Exhibitions; or as contributions to the Abstracts Compendium.
GS8 invites the contributions of researchers, innovation leaders and other R&I stakeholders on strategies, methodologies and best practice on putting gender equality and gender knowledge into action. Topics of Interest:
- Maximising cross cutting impacts of gender-sensitive and responsive research (e.g. relationships between sex-gender and health and/or poverty, and/or environment, and/or climate change adaptation, and/or transport)
- Integrating gender and diversity effects into measuring scientific performance and innovation capacity of individuals, institutions, and countries
- Promoting gender and diversity benefits in team performance and cooperation and in disciplinary collaborations
- Advancing gender and intersectional factors as variables and targets of research content and process
- Transforming gender stereotypes and gender bias in education, workplace, and society at large
- Enhancing leadership and policy agendas for socially relevant and responsive science and innovation
Find out more: http://gender-summit.com/gs8-call-for-abstracts3