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Dunja Mladenic J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia Dora Groo Hungarian STF , Hungary Maija Bundule

How far is the target? Measuring the participation of women scientists from the Enwise countries in the Research Framework Programmes. Dunja Mladenic J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia Dora Groo Hungarian STF , Hungary Maija Bundule Ministry of Higher Education & Science, Latvia

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Dunja Mladenic J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia Dora Groo Hungarian STF , Hungary Maija Bundule

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  1. How far is the target?Measuring the participation of women scientists from the Enwise countries in the Research Framework Programmes Dunja Mladenic J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia Dora Groo Hungarian STF, Hungary Maija Bundule Ministry of Higher Education & Science, Latvia (Enwise experts)

  2. Enwise countries today • Research system restructuring during the transition period resulted in • lower funding for science • lower number of scientists • no more military/regime influence on science content but..... • keeping rigid patterns of promotion and recognition • Gender differences in the concentrations across R&D sectors • women are present mainly in low-expenditure part of R&D and at lower academic positions • women are under-represented at the top positions in academies of sciences and in universities • Poor infrastructure and outdated equipment

  3. Enwise countries in EU FP Enwise countries participate • to some extent in EU research framework programs since 1992 (FP3 COST, visits, joint projects,...) • in EU research projects and bodies/panels as full members from 1999 (FP5, FP6) • but, ....less in monitoring and advisory work (FP5)

  4. Data supporting the related claims of Enwise report • Data collected via different sources, internal commission, national and publicly available • We give an approximate idea of the situation and call for systematic data collection and analysis • Main data sources for FP5 and FP6: • Evaluators database, National Contact Points, Program Committees, External Advisory Boards, Monitoring and Assessment Panels

  5. Evaluators of EU projects Summary • Registered <> Invited • Growing proportion of registered women experts (FP5, FP6) • Larger pools of women researchers contribute more experts (Poland, Romania, Hungary) • except for Bulgaria where only 6% of researchers are women but half of them are registered as evaluator making 14% of all Enwise women evaluators

  6. % in Enwise better than EU-15 Database of evaluation experts • Registered experts – Enwise better then EU-15, both growing % of women • Enwise (women: 26% in FP5 and 34% in FP6) • EU-15 (women: 17%in FP5 and 23% in FP6) • Invited experts in FP5 - Enwise proportion better then EU-15 • Enwise (34% women), EU-15 (22% women) • remember that in Enwise women represent 38% of researchers, while in EU-15 women represent 27% of researchers

  7. Invited experts (Enwise worse than EU-15) Database of evaluation experts FP5 • from Enwise 52% of the registered women were invited compared to 67% for EU-15 • from Enwise 41% of the registered researchers were invited compared to 52% for EU-15 • How about FP6?

  8. Proportion of female evaluators growing jump highest lowest

  9. Evaluators relative to Enwise countries In FP5 database of evaluation experts most of Enwise women (71% of 675) come from • Poland [23%] , Romania [19%], Hungary [15%] and Bulgaria [14%] • partially due to the fact that Enwise women researchers (67%) come from • Poland [42%] , Romania [13%] and Hungary [12%] Similar in FP6 database of evaluation experts most of Enwise women (FP5: 78% of 1009) come from • Romania [30%], Poland [24%] , Bulgaria [14%] and Hungary [10%]

  10. Relative to Enwise countries - details drop jump

  11. Women in FP NCP and PC Proportion of women appointed as NCP • growing in Enwise countries • (women: 37% in FP5 and 48% in FP6) • in FP6 better for Enwise than in EU-15 • Enwise (women: 48%) compared to EU-15 (women: 33%) Proportion of women in PCs • growing in Enwise countries (women: 23% in FP5 and 27% in FP6)

  12. Enwise - growing proportion of women in EU Research bodies: National Contact Points (NCP) and Program Committees (PC)

  13. Enwise in External Advisory Groups – low percentage! • in FP5 (similar situation so far in FP6!) 28 experts from Enwise participated in one of 17 groups representing less than 10% of all invited experts • only 5 of them (18%) are women • FP6 can still change this!

  14. Enwise women underrepresented in monitoring/advisory Monitoring and assessment panels – very low number of Enwise researchers Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), FP6 • 2 representatives from each Enwise country, in most cases male • exception is Romania (both female) and Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic 50% female

  15. EU collects/provides relevant data European Commission in FP6: • collects sex-disaggregated data on participation in research (projects, bodies, panels,...) • this should be used for further analysis and monitoring of the situation For FP6 project participation the gender information is currently not available

  16. FP6 Data on Cordis only name, no gender! only organization no name or gender! Acronym

  17. Data analysis needs the data • If the data is made available, different statistical and data mining methods can be used to gain some insides in the situation • An example is Text/Data mining analysis of IST FP5 and FP6 project descriptions (developed at J.Stefan Institute) • from the limited data publicly available on Cordis • gender information could be a part of that

  18. Collaboration between countries(top 12 countries, FP5-IST) Most active country Number of collaborations

  19. FP6-IST, funding info. also available

  20. Slovenia – profile (August 2004) based on Cordis data for FP6-IST projects

  21. Concluding remarks I • Expensive to act as a FP expert in Brussels • for individuals relative to their monthly income • as the expenses are reimbursed several weeks after the event • FP information available mainly via Internet • ... but in some Enwise countries IT and Internet connection are limited • At a decision level proportion of women in FP6 is low (PCs 27%, EAGs 18%, CREST 20%) • in some cases a restricted group of experts

  22. Concluding remarks II No monitoring at national level of the invited experts – no organized feedback for the community • experience in Slovenia – great interest from research and industry: • Ministry and researchers/experts have organized several seminars on “Successful application for EU projects” sharing experience on • project proposal writing, FP6 instruments, acting as project evaluators in FP5/FP6 and project management eg., see one of the Solomon Seminars with video recording and slides (in Slovene) <http://solomon.ijs.si/seminarji/seminar.asp?id=150#>

  23. Recommendations • EC ensure access to data (with gender info.) • about FP6 panels and other groups/bodies • about funded projects • EC organize training of NCPs and evaluators on gender issues and gender dimension • EC report on achievements of projects with • good gender balance, coordinated by women,... • Wider dissemination on EU funding opportunities and funded projects at national level • daily newspapers, interviews,... • Actions to encourage women participation in FP • training, mentoring, info. despite IT weaknesses

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