Welcome to join a global community of excellence for female researchers in engineering  coordinated by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Georgia Institute of Technology, the Ohio State University and the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) the 12-14 September 2012 in Athens.

WIRES – Women’s International Research Engineering Summit was launched in year 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. The 2nd WIRES summit was organized in 2011 in Orlando, Florida, USA. WIRES is primarily an international summit for women who are interested in pursuing collaborative research­ing opportunities. The main objective of the annual summits is to enable meaningful and sustainable research exchanges between female engineers from around the world while identifying issues faced by females pursuing careers in engineering that could benefit from a global strategy. 

In November 2011 NSF, GeorgiaTech and the Ohio State University and the European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) have agreed to partner to organize WIRES 2012 in Athens and the next WIRES between 2012 and 2015.
 
The target group for WIRES 2012:
 
·         Engineering Faculty

·         Masters students  

·         Graduate Students

·         PhD students
 
·         Post Doctoral Fellows

·         Researchers from Industry

·         Program Directors from Funding Agencies
 
 
 
Participants:
 
The organizers plan to recruite 200 participants: 60 from US & Canada, 25-25 from both Greece and Norway, 15 from Africa, 20 from Asia Pacific, 30 from Europe, 15 from Latin-America and 10 from other countries.
 
The program components for Athens include:
 
•       Setting the tone – who is at WIRES and why
 
•       Learn about why and how to engage in international research collaborations
 
•       Poster session with activities to identify collaborators

•       Time for working on drafts/outlines of proposals and timelines for follow-up
 
•       Presenting good examples of successful international collaboration projects
 
•       Learn about funding and funding models that are available and meeting with key financers
 
•       Training in entrepreneurship and learning about technology to the market (T2M)
 
•       Learn about IPR issues
 
•       Identify follow up strategy
 
•       Celebration/banquet with key note speaker and dancing
 
•       Tour of Athens

•       One study tour

Registration open until the 31st of March on http://wires.womenandtechnology.eu
 
Interested to get involved as a strategic partner, sponsor or participant -

Welcome to contact
 
•Dr. Mary Lynn Realff e-mail 
•Dr. Mary Juhas e-mail
•Eva Fabry e-mail