From 2010 – 2012, the Partners in the GendERA initiative are working together within the FP7 program project to make a change to the balance of gender in research organisations in Europe.

The Final conference of GendERA will be organized by Steinbeis Europa Zentrum in Stuttgart the 19-20 March 2012.

By raising awareness in a wide cross-section of today's society, GendERA partners aim to re-address the balance of gender within research organisations and higher education organisations across Europe.

The role of women in specific disciplines and in decision making positions is being strengthened through

• dialogue (the gender debate)
• collecting, systematizing and analysing existing policies and programmes in order to identify good practices that are already having a positive effect on ensuring that women get higher in research organisations and higher education institutions and achieve decision-making positions.

The project is supported by the European Commission under the FP7 Capacities programme.

GendERA is coordinated by the Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation - Tudományos és Technológiai Alapítvány (Hungary). Other partners in the project are

• the Center for European Initiatives and Research in the Mediterranean (Spain),
• the National Documentation Centre/ National Hellenic Research Foundation (EKT/NHRF) (Greece),
• Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia),
• Univerzita Mateja Bela (Slovakia),
• Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (Austria),
• Agencia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (Italy)
• ORT Braude College of Engineering (Israel) and
• Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (Germany) that is hosting the Final Conference in Stuttgart.

The full conference program: