Best Practices

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• Best Practices
• and
• Lessons Learned
• Jennifer Campbell
• ECSITE Conference June 6, 2009

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LOréal-UNESCO Awards 5 Laureates per year
135 Fellows (71 countries)
LOréal UNESCO National Fellowships In 42
countries
500 Fellows by March 2009
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A global presence
International Fellow
Juries
National Fellowship Programs
Laureate
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Challenges

• Meeting national needs within a global program
  framework
• Maintaining media interest
• Animating the network at a distance
• Geographical spread of national and regional
  programs
• Calendarisation of all levels of the program

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Best Practices

• Committed partners with clear roles and
  responsibilities
• Clear program guidelines
• Exponential dynamics of program expansion at all
  levels
• Creation of the AGORA a platform for the
  international network
•  Market Intelligence  - consider the national
  context
• Identify unexpected communications opportunties
• Institutional Exhibits Paris Airport, Cité des
  Sciences Videotheque, UNESCO, Science Magazine.
• Press Coverage
• Advertisements

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Best practices at the International Program
Level
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Institutional Exhibit in all Paris Airports 250
Billboards
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Institutional Exhibit Cité des Sciences
Mediathèque
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Press Ad
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Press Ad
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Press Ad
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STEERING COMMITTEE
Dedicated Internet Site
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AGORA
For the Community
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Press Coverage
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Best practices at the National Program Level
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National FellowshipsCANADA

• Built-in Mentoring Component
• Since 2003 in partnership with NSERC (National
  Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
  Canada)
• 2 Research Fellowships (doctoral level) with
  ACTUA includes Mentoring component for Fellows
  and LOréal Researchers
• 2 Fellowships for Scientific Excelence
  (post-doctoral) with AUCC (Association of
  Universities Colleges of Canada)

Cérémonie 2007 Javier San Juan, LOREAL Canada,
Rowan Thomson et Josephine Tsang, boursières,
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, Lauréate du Prix
LOréal-UNESCO 2008 pour lAfrique, Véronique
Lecault et Erin Mazerolle, boursières, Michèle S.
Jean, Présidente de la Commission Nationale pour
lUNESCO
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National FellowshipsINDONESIA
Dr. Ines Atmosukarto 2004 International
Fellow Summer Science Camp
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National FellowshipsITALY
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Thank you
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Why For Women in Science?

• An opportunity for the National Commissions to
  UNESCO to mobilize the national scientific
  community to
• promote gender equality in all domains, with a
  special focus on scientific research
• build national scientific capacity in the member
  states
• An opportunity for LOréal to utilize their
  expertise in communications and operations to
• highlight the benefits of gender equality in
  scientific research through the Groups
  best-practices
• leverage LOréals high visibility to create role
  models that will inspire the next generation

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Developing the For Women in Science Community

• Country level creation of national clubs with
  former Fellows
• Internationally the AGORA an interactive online
  forum
• Online Social networks (Facebook, Twitter,
  Linked In..)
• Creation of a For Women in Science speaker
  bureau
• Continuous contact from the