NitroEurope - or NEU for short - is a project for integrated European research into the nitrogen cycle. NitroEurope is part of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, and will run for 5 years from February 2006 until 2011.
NitroEurope - Gender Committee
Members and responsibilities
- Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern (chair, forum)
- Julia Drewer (female experts network)
- Jan Duyzer (questionnaires)
- Agnieszka Elijaz (grants, awards)
- Mari Pihlatie (questionnaires)
Main objectives:
• To defend gender equality
• To promote the role of female scientists in NitroEurope
What does it do?
The gender committee has a forum as a permanent site for the discussion of gender issues, such as potential conflicts between career and family and to exchange experience and highlight differences in the gender issues awareness between EU countries.
The forum will also be a place for the distribution of announcements for jobs and training opportunities, and it will act as the platform to channel experience and good ideas, but also to deal with complaints.
Ideas raised by the forum as, for example, child care at NitroEurope meetings, video-conferences etc. to facilitate participation of scientists with children will be looked for implementation by the gender committee
The gender committee will initiate and maintain a monitoring activity, by means of annual questionnaires to be completed by all partners, on the recruitment of female researchers within the IP.It will actively help finding qualified females, and recruiting females, for open jobs in NitroEurope
An annual gender action report will contain an inventory of what actions to promote gender equality have been performed at the level of the Integrated Project as a whole and of its major components and will document the overall success as compared to targets of promotion of female researchers and of promotion of involvements of scientist with young families in the IP activities . The gender committee will produce the report with the input of all partners of the Integrated Project.
News and Announcements
In 2010 questionnaires will be sent out again to analyse possible changes in the situation of women within the 5 years of NitroEurope – Please return them!!
In addition to that, the following work is planned for year 5 of NitroEurope:
- Advertize grants or prizes specifically dedicated to women
- Promote Networking by creating a list of women scientists with contact details facilitating the international collaboration among women scientists and facilitate partnership in future EU-Projects
Contact
Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern
Forum
Follow this link.
