Tuesday, 20th March 2012

Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

08:45 - 09:15

Registration and Coffee

  Conference Chair: Dr. Petra Püchner, Managing Director Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum Stuttgart, Germany
09:15 - 09:30
Encouraging Gender Equality Policy at the National Level "-the Status Quo"

Prof. Dr. Dunja Mladenic, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Jožef Stefan Institute and Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Slovenia

09:30 - 11:00

Session 1 / Module 1:
Career Paths in Research - Structural Change

  • Caroline Roughneen , Director, Centre for Women in Science & Engineering Research (WiSER), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Dr. Karin Uphoff, Managing Director and Proprietress, uphoff pr & marketing GmbH, Germany
  • Dr. Mária Palasik, Jean Monnet Professor, Head of Research Department of the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security, Hungary
  • Prof. Maca Jogan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lubljana, Slovenia

Chair: Assoc. Prof. Alexandra Bitusikova, PhD, Vice-Rector for Research, Matej Bel Univerity in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

09:30 - 11:00

Session 2 / Module 1
Gender and Innovation - Maximising the Potential of Women Researchers in Innovation

  • Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner, TU Berlin, Gender and Diversity in Organisations at the Department of Machine Tools and Factory Management, Germany
  • Prof. Rosa Azhari, Dept. of Biotechnology Engineering, ORT Braude College, Chairperson-Subcommittee for Engineering and Technology, Council for Higher Education, Israel
  • Gertraud Oberzaucher, AustriaTech - Federal Agency for Technological Matters Ltd., Gender in Research, Technology and Innovation Projects, Austria

Chair: Nuria Valles, CIREM – Center for European Initiatives and Research in the Mediterranean, Spain

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 13:00

Session 1 / Module 2
Innovative Good Practices

  • Dr. Helene Schiffbänker, Researcher, POLICIES - Centre for Economics and Innovation, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria
  • Prof. Dr. Andras Recski, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
  • Assoc. Prof.  Dagmar Caganova, Project Manager, AUTOCLUSTERS projects and Assoc. Prof. Jana SujanovaJana Sujanova, First Deputy Director for science and research, Insitute of Industrial Engineering, Management and Quality, Technical University, Slovakia

Chair: Maria Samara, Greek SSH NCP and EU Projects Office, National Documentation Centre/NHRF (EKT/NHRF), Greece

 11:30  - 13:30

Session 2 / Module 2
Clusters - an Innovation Environment for Gender

  • Inger Danilda, Encounter AB and "IT, Innovation and Gender", Sweden
  • Kerstin Hindrum, Project Coordinator "All Aboard", Swedish Marine Technology Forum, Sweden
  • Maria Svensson, Cluster Representative &  Project Manager, Fiber Optic Valley and                  Susanne Andersson, Stockholm University / VINNOVA, Sweden
  • Torunn Aass Taralrud, Director Regional Office Oppland County, Innovation Norway, Norway
Chair: Dr. Petra Püchner, Managing Director, Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum, Germany
 13:00 - 14:00 Light lunch and end of conference