Gender Balance in EU and a Case Report of an EU Funded Project

Gender Balance in EU and a Case Report of an EU Funded Project

Eleni Kaldoudi

[email protected]

Associate Professor, DUTH, Greece

WiMBE Session, MEDICON, April 2016 E. Kaldoudi

SHE Figures - EU

Gender in Research and Innovation: statistics and indicators

a series of reports published every 3 years by EU

since 2003

5 reports so far

currently: SHE Figures 2015

published in March 2016

https://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/pub_gender_equality/s

he_figures_2015-leaflet-web.pdf (doi:10.2777/744106)

https://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/pub_gender_equality/she_figures_2015-leaflet-web.pdf



gender balance in PhD graduates

EU has reached a gender balance in PhD graduates

40-60% women of PhD graduates in all EU countries (2012)

women PhD graduates numbers generally increase at a faster

rate than the number of men (2002-2012)

despite improvements since 2004,

women remain under-represented in most narrow fields of

science and engineering

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2012 % women PhD graduates in computing

EU mean: 21%

max: 58% Luxemburg min: 6% Hungary

EU SHE Figures 2015

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2012 % women PhD graduates in physical science

EU mean: 37%

max: 67% Cyprusmin: 22% Iceland

EU SHE Figures 2015

EU SHE Figures 2015

gender (in)balance in academic career

1st year PhD grads

Full Professors

79%

21%

gender (in)balance in academic career in science and engineering

1st year PhD grads

Full professors

87% (79% for all fields)

13% (21% for all fields)

EU SHE Figures 2015


research output

28% women in board members (including leaders) in 2014

31% of publications had a woman

corresponding author between 2011 and 2013

the gender gap in the funding success rate

decreasing at the EU-28 level

success rate for men is still higher

than that for women in 70 % of countries

EU SHE Figures 2015


proportion of women team leaders in research funded projects

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CARRECardiorenal

comorbidity management

via empowerment and

shared informed decision

FP7-ICT-2013-611140

consortium: 6 partners from 4 EU countries

coordinator: Eleni Kaldoudi (DUTH)

duration: Nov 2013 – Oct 2016

budget: 3,210,470€

http://carre-project.eu/

Democritus Univ. of ThraceDUTH, GR

The Open University, UK

Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK Vilnius Univ. Hospital, LT

Kaunas Univ., LTIndustrial Research Institute

for Automation & Measurements, PL

http://carre-project.eu/

http://www.beds.ac.uk/

http://www.beds.ac.uk/

what? CARRE

EU FP7-ICT-2013-6111403.2M, 2013-2016DUTH, OU, BED, VULSK, KTU, PIAP

why? cardiorenal disease

chronic, common, dangerous, expensive, with many causing factors and complex progression

for the patient for the medical expert

how?

quantified self

medical evidence

personal risk prediction

personal decision support

ProcessorReal time clock &

Calendar

Micro SD Card4GB

ElectrocardiogramI, II, III leadsTI front-end

ADS1294DRLRALLLA

BlueTooth

Power

LA

RA

LL

Body Composition / Weight Scale TI front-end

AFE4300

LCD

WiFi

CARRE server

sensor developments

for the ICT expert

entry.carre-project.eu www.carre-project.euvisual.carre-project.eu

http://carre-project.eu

CARRE team in Luton project meeting, May 2015

women: 5 out 15 33%


gender balance in CARRE

WP leaders: 50% representation of both genders

Task leaders: 55% women

Team Leaders and GA: 1/3 women

Key team members: 37% women

Reviewers: 2/3 women


dedicated task on gender balance

part of management activities, with the aim to:

ensure a gender balanced representation across the project

collect and report to EU data on women’s participation in all project

committees, working groups, research and dissemination activities

devote a small part of each Project Meeting for discussing gender issues

liaise with IFMBE WiMBE and other related committees


Gender issues discussions in the project

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Alexandroupolils, Nov 2013:

Gender balance in EU research era: the 2009 SHE figures

Warsaw, Apr 2014:

Gender balance in EU FP7 projects – funded research work on gender balance

Vilnius, Sep 2014:

Gender balance in EU research era: the 2012 SHE figures

Luton, May 2015:

UN Women Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2015

Kaunas, Sep 2015:

Nature Specials: Women in Science


www.slideshare.net/WiMBE_IFMBE


twitter @WiMBE_IFMBE

acknowledgment

European Commission under the

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

7th Framework Programme

Contract No. FP7-ICT-2013-611140

CARRE: Personalized patient empowerment

and shared decision support

for cardiorenal disease and comorbidities

http://www.carre-project.eu/

http://www.carre-project.eu/

Contact

Eleni Kaldoudi

CARRE Coordinator

Associate Professor

School of Medicine

Democritus University of Thrace

Alexandroupoli, Greece

Email: [email protected]

http://iris.med.duth.gr/kaldoudi

Cite as

E. Kaldoudi, Gender Balance in EU

and a Case Report of an EU Funded

Project, Invited Talk, Special Session on

Women in Medical and Biological

Engineering, MEDICON 2016, Paphos,

Cyprus, 2 April 2016

mailto:[email protected]

http://iris.med.duth.gr/kaldoudi