Welcome to the website of the GENERA Network!
 | ERASMUS+ GENERA-COPA working meeting at University of Oviedo On April 20/21, 2026 Read the news on the GENERA-COPA website |
| GENERA General Assembly 2025 and ERASMUS+ GENERA-COPA kick-off at University of Limerick On September 4/5, 2025 |  |
 Please register! | This year GENERA Network continues its series of lectures on Gender and Sciences and invites again top level researchers: February 27, 2025: Annalisa Murgia (University of Milan) Gender and Precarious Careers in Research September 25, 2025: Clara Wiederschwinger-Fischer (JOANNEUM RESEARCH) How can robots enable inclusive workplaces? Rethinking safety and design for diversity in manufacturing |
| GENERA General Assembly 2024 at CERN On September 25/26, 2024 |  |
| Will be continued in 2025!! | In 2024 GENERA Network invited top level researchers for a series of lectures on Gender and Sciences: April 3, 2024: Kathia Serrano-Velarde (Heidelberg University) What do we learn when we compete? A qualitative study of postdoc careers May 30, 2024: Johanna Stadmark (Lund University) Career plans among PhD students – are there gendered differences? June 11, 2024: Marieke van den Brink (Radboud University) Gender equality and the Ethics of Care in Academia June 27, 2024: Fiona McClement (Leeds University) The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture, |
| The new GENERA Network Management Team met at DESY in Hamburg! April 29/30, 2024, the GENERA Network Management Team came together for an in person meeting at DESY to discuss the coming activities of the network. The Head of CERN's D&I Office, Louise Carvalho, joint the meeting to present the plans for the D&I event in September 2024 at CERN, which is part of the celebration of CERN's 70th anniversary and prepare this year's GENERA General Assembly at CERN. |  Pictured, from left, are Thomas Berghöfer (Coordination Team, DESY), Tomas Brage (Chair, Lund University), Lisa Kamlade (Coordination Team, DESY), Louise Carvalho (CERN), Maria Rosaria Masullo (vice-Chair, INFN Naples). |
Concorso “DONNE E RICERCA IN FISICA: tra stereotipi di genere e professioni del futuro” | In 2017 the Italian GENERA Network members CNR and INFN launched for the first time a school competition on women and research in physics in Italy. The award winning videos of the initial competition still can be watched on youtube. This year the school competition is organzed for the fourth time. Read more on this year's competition at the Springer Nature website and the Italian GENERA Network website. |
| A new online course: Physics and Gender To teachers and students at universities in EU/EES countries, Why is it that physics, which is considered objective and not affected by who is doing the research, teaching, and learning, is so dominated by men among its practitioners? Why do some groups of people select not to come to physics – or to leave the area? Could the explanation be found in the culture of our labs and institutes? Or is it deeper – in the subject and how it is (re)presented? How do we make physics more welcoming for a larger part of the population? | Stockholm and Lund Universities (supported by NordForsk) are offering this online course, which is open to all interested students and personnel at universities in Europe (free of charge). To learn more about the course and to apply, google the course code MNXB03 or go to https://canvas.education.lu.se/courses/20692 The deadline for application is February 5, 2023 |
The first workshop of the GENERA Career Development Working Group had its premiere!  |  On December 15, close to 20 PhD students attended the online event “Segregation, implicit bias & myths - threats to fair Physics careers”. The presentations and interactive sessions of the four trainers were very well received by the PhD students. Their questions and feedback have provided valuable input on how to further improve the format and performance of the workshop. |
| GENERA Network at the Big Science Business Forum 2022 October 4, 2022  Read more on the Women in Big Science Event 2022 Have a look at the award winning poster(s) | The GENERA poster submitted for the award of Women in Big Science Projects received the Recognition Award in ALL three categories: 1. Advances in Organisational Culture  2. Collaborative Partnerships  3. Societal Impact  |
| Announcement: GENERA Network conference “Gender Dimension in Physics and Math-Intensive Research” The conference videos are finally published in University Lund’s Youtube channel Watch the videos here... | June 22/23, 2022 at Lund University  Further information: https://indico.desy.de/e/gedimirt |
