The Young Academy of Europe participates in the Horizon 2020 project CALIPER. The goal of this project is to support 7 Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) and 2 Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) across Europe to design, implement, evaluate and expand Gender Equality Plans (GEPs). CALIPER will stimulate the dialogue and collaboration between academia, public authorities, professionals, and industry players in order to tackle gender inequalities across the research- transfer-to-market pipeline.
Being a Member of CALIPER Consortium, YAE seeks to foster internal procedures that are going to result in tailored gender equality policies and sustainable structural changes in favour of a gender balanced and competent environment. The Organisation is projected to assess the current conditions regarding gender issues and work on creating a GEP to introduce specific steps towards enhancing female researchers’ role. YAE is the member of CALIPER who leads the communication with the academic network across Europe to spread information about the project accomplishments and to facilitate the engagement of those interested with the project activities.
Project’s website: https://caliper-project.eu/
On 23 November 2023, Moniek Tromp (Outgoing Chair) was featured in the Final Conference of the CALIPER Horizon Europe project initially launched by YAE. The conference program is available here, and registrations for the hybrid event were available until the 1 November.
17 October 2023, Gemma Modinos (previous YAE Chair) was moderating an online panel discussion organised by the Academia Europaea Cardiff Knowledge Hub and the CALIPER project about how to succeed in a STEM career as a woman. For more details see the events website or the video recording of the event.
In 2022, related to the panel proposed by the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force of the YAE entitled: ‘Towards an inclusive and representative academic landscape’ and chaired by Linn Leppert (Membership Chair of YAE) featuring Katalin Solymosi (Recruitment Vice-Chair) as panellist on the Building Bridges (BB2022) Conference in Barcelona, CALIPER made a short video interview about how the YAE and AE can help push the agenda on equity, diversity and inclusion. Later, Linn Leppert, Katalin Solymosi and Yvonne Galligan published a short paper summarizing the panel in European Review.
CALIPER role model interview with Professor Ivana Podnar Žarko
The second role model interview features Professor Ivana Podnar Žarko from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at Univeristy of Zagreb. The full interview can be found here.
CALIPER role model interview with Professor Moniek Tromp
The YAE is producing promotional videos within the CALIPER project to raise awareness and generate debate about the gender inequality issues in STEM fields. The interviewees are female role models, whose remarkable personalities, achievements, and positive stories can encourage other women, especially young girls, to become engaged with research and innovation. We recently had the pleasure to interview Prof. Moniek Tromp (YAE Vice-Chair). In this interview, Moniek talks about her work in various gender-related projects, among other topics. We kindly invite you to watch the interview, which is featured on the CALIPER website.
CALIPER newsletter
The CALIPER Newsletter is designed to keep you updated about CALIPER’s important news, results and further steps every six months. You can subscribe for the newsletter here.
Download leaflet promoting the CALIPER project here.