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The winners of the 2016 EU Prize for Women Innovators were revealed yesterday, March 10 2016, in an award ceremony held in Brussels. Dr. Susana Sargento was the winner among a shortlist of 9 other women innovators. Veniaum, the company she co-funded, turns vehicles into Wi-Fi hotspots and builds city-scale vehicular networks that collect terabytes of urban data.
On 31 May at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels
We are proud to announce that the RRI Toolkit is now ready to be used by all of you! Responsible Research and Innovation at your doorstep: browse through projects, tools, guidelines, cases, manuals, and many other useful resources. The Toolkit opens this new world of practical ways to address RRI in different contexts. If you are a communicator, an educator, a researcher, a museum explainer, you will always find something that fits your necessities.
Browse through the Business Bistro area, check out who's confirmed to exhibit and choose an available booth.
The scientific touring exhibitions database will be entirely redesigned and upgraded. Uploading exhibitions will be reserved to Ecsite members and EXTRA sponsors, while the search function will stay accessible to all. Launch at the Ecsite conference in June!
The week-long global Twitter campaign mobilising museums and their visitors around the globe will be taking place from 28 March to 3 April. Register!
For its third edition at the 2016 Ecsite Annual Conference. Get in touch by 9 March - "The GameLab is whatever you’ll make of it!"
Today, February 11 is the International Day of Women & Girls in science. Science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.
However, according to the 2021 UNESCO Science Report, female students make up just 28% of graduates in engineering and 40% of those in computer sciences. 33% of researchers are women, and they have made up to parity in life science in many countries.
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