REGISTER FOR RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION WORKSHOP
Advancing RTD through Gender-Fair Recruitment and Retention Strategies
Location: Campus of the University of Vienna, Seminar room of the Institut für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin, Old Chapel, court 2.8, Vienna, Austria
Online phase: October – May 2011; Date: 19th - 20th May 2011
Gender Action Plans do not help women only. They can establish procedures and structures that reduce bias and inequality in the recruitment and promotion of researchers, improve the working climate, reduce brain drain by retaining highly qualified and motivated personalities.
It can be challenging to transfer Gender Action Plans across research organisation because each has to be tailored to the specific circumstances of the institute and adapted to national laws and research structures. What works and what does not and how to measure their success must be considered as part of the process.
Recruitment, promotion and retention procedures often favour a social group or disadvantage others, and the mechanisms leading to this inequality are not always obvious, guidelines can be circumvented, procedures can have unintended effects.
The target group of this workshop are research institutions all over Europe, who want to implement new or improved Gender Action Plans at their organisations. Participants will be representatives of science organisations who have the responsibility for the implementation of Gender Action Plans.
In the preparatory phase of the workshop, participants will be asked to bring their ideas, requirements, and questions and to actively take part in the development of the workshop programme, which will be tailored to their specific needs. For this, an online workspace will be set up. These online discussions will culminate in the workshop event itself.
The workshop offers:
- extensive information on Gender Action Plans, general and in respect to individual requests
- exchange of experiences and ideas with other research organisations
- intense support by highly qualified gender experts
- discussions of special questions live (Flashmeeting) and in online fora
- If needed, we will support you with the Internet tools (Moodle)
For more information about the workshops please contact us or register now.
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