Women%20in%20Science:%20the%20European%20Policy

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Women in Science the European Policy
European Commission Research DG Luisa Prista,
Head of Unit Unit L.4 - Scientific culture and
gender issues luisa.prista_at_ec.europa.eu
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Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN

• Born September 5, 1950 Galway, Ireland
• 1970 1975 Teacher
• From 1975 to 1997 various political positions in
  Ireland(Irish Parliament, Minister of State for
  Commerce, Minister for the Gaeltacht, Minister of
  State for Education, Minister for European
  Affairs, Minister for Tourism, Transport and
  Communications, Minister for Justice)
• 1997 - 2000 Columnist with The Irish Times
  newspaper TV presenter Part-time business
  consultant Non-executive director Aer Lingus
  Non-executive director Ryan Hotels
• From March 2000-2010 Member of the European
  Court of Auditors
• http//ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/geoghegan
  -quinn/index_en.htm

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Key SiS messages by the Commissioner

• The research workplace needs to evolve to empower
  more women to play their full part in science
• Research DGs exemplary, working conditions and
  status, specific communication campaign targeting
  young girls
• We also need to address the increasing disconnect
  between science and society
• Society must be familiar and at ease with the
  science underpinning its progress, functioning
  and survival
• Communicating the benefits and outcomes of
  research to the public will be critical to public
  support for Research
• Science must belong in Society

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Commissioner Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN at EP

1. Commission, DG RTD to leads by example . (40
   target, gender mainstream)
2. Push modernisation of managing research in
   Europe( include gender management )
3. Awareness and Communication ( citizens, young
   people )
4. Take stock of existing knowledge (incl industry),
   set instruments and specific polices to achieve
   the set targets

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PERSPECTIVES

• EUROPE 2020
• 3 Priorities
• 5 Targets
• 7 Flagship initiatives

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Europe 2020 PRIORITIES

• EU 2020 sets out a vision of Europe's social
  market economy for the 21st century.
• Three mutually reinforcing priorities
• Smart growth developing an economy based on
  knowledge and innovation.
• Sustainable growth promoting a more resource
  efficient, greener and more competitive economy.
  
• Inclusive growth fostering a high-employment
  economy delivering social and territorial
  cohesion.

Research
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Europe 2020 TARGETS
By 2020 1 -75 employment rate ( of
population aged 20-64 years) 2 - 3
investment in RD ( of EUs GDP). and an
innovation indicator 3 - 20/20/20
climate/energy targets met (incl. 30
emissions reduction if conditions are right) 4 -
lt 10 early school leavers min. 40 hold
tertiary degree 5 - 20 million less people
should be at risk of poverty
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the EU 2020 AGENDAFlagship Initiatives

1.  Innovation Union
2. Youth on the move
3. A digital agenda for Europe
4. Resource efficient Europe
5. An industrial policy for the globalisation era
6. An agenda for new skills and jobs
7. European platform against poverty

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Flagship InitiativeInnovation Union
My job, in short, is to work with the Member
States, business and other stakeholders to
transform Europe into a really vibrant innovation
economy, what I call an "i-conomy. Máire
Geoghegan-Quinn, Research, Innovation Science
Commissioner
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Flagship InitiativeInnovation Union
"i-conomy. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Research,
Innovation Science Commissioner 17/06/2010
1000 - 1100 "Innovation Union!" Your chance
to debate with Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn live
online
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ARTICULATION Research and Innovation Plan, ERA
communication FP8
Europe 2020
Financial Perspectives 2014-2020
Research Innovation Plan
Communication ERA
8ème Framework Programe (et CIP?)
Legislative Action and others
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Timetable Research and Innovation Plan, ERA
communicationFP8

• - Financial Perspectives 2014-2020
• April 2011 Adoption by COM
• - Research and Innovation Plan
• September 2010 Adoption BY COM
• - ERA communication
• December 2010 Submission of draft Impact
  Assessment (IA) report and executive summary to
  IA board
• Juin 2011 Adoption BY COM
• - FP8
• October 2010 Interim evaluation FP7
• April 2011 Adoption of orientation document FP8
  by COM
• July 2011 Draft FP8 proposals and ex-ante impact
  assessment
• January 2012 Adoption Formal Proposals FP8 (incl
  Specific Programs, Participation Rules) by COM

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Structural Change projects

• PRAGES - collecting, classifying and evaluating
  good practices in OECD countries, at the national
  level and at the level of the individual
  institutions, and making them available to
  decision-makers and other stakeholders
• GENDERA raises awareness collects, systemises
  and analyses existing policies / programmes to
  identify best practices to ensure that women get
  higher positions in research decision-making
• DIVERSITY - supports greater inclusiveness of
  women scientists in materials research
  organisations surveyed 300 institutions from
  over 11 countries. Research institutions
  participating in the project will later build
  their own profile on the basis of the principles
  of the European Charter for Researchers. Hot
  themes recruitment, promotion and nomination.
• GEN-SET - develops practical ways in which gender
  knowledge and gender mainstreaming expertise can
  be incorporated within European science
  institutions in order to improve individual and
  collective capacity for action to increase
  womens participation in science. 
• WHIST - networking, awareness-raising, piloting
  and knowledge transfer among scientific
  organisations and with decision-makers. aims to
  obtain commitment of MS in the promotion of women
  in RTD increase the capacity of ST
  institutions in monitoring, managing and feeding
  gender diversity in their organisation
  contribute to the implementation of the European
  Charter for Researchers Code of Conduct
• 2 to be negotiated following 2010 call (contracts
  might start at the beginning of 2011)

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Roadmap WiS

• At project level we continue with the structural
  change approach.
• Women in FP, we want to increase efforts to
  monitor the 40 target.
• A special extra effort in 2011 will be put into
  gender mainstreaming with FP, an area of work
  that we haven't fully exploited yet.
• Following the institutional wave, we want to go
  ahead with an expert group on innovation through
  gender in research, and learn more about the
  potential of this area too.
• Policy gt looking at existing practices of
  negotiation of collective labour agreements at MS
  level and how to encourage best practice exchange
  among MS and social partners in this sense
  explanatory opinion with EESC
• Starting from end 2010, wide Awareness and
  Communication Campaign
• All of this in addition to business as usual, eg
  flagship projects, She Figures 2012 WIST 2 and
  the cooperation with Mediterranean countries.

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Partnership MS-EUCouncil, EU Parliament,
Commission

• ERA governance should strengthen the role of the
  Council strategic steering, orientation
  debates, presidency trios
• Involvement of EP to be further developed
  currently not actively associated in the
  Ljubljana Process - ITRE
• The Commission must fully exercise its role as
  set in the Treaties MS-EU as equal partners
• a stronger strategic and steering role by the
  Council in the governance of ERA is needed
• Orientation debates could be envisaged on overall
  progress and strategic development of ERA in
  Council
• Important facilitating and planning role of
  Presidency Trios