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About Virtual Integrated Unit - Gender Mainstreaming (VIU-GM)
VIU-GM’s goal is to promote the gender balance in Materials Science by:
- improving the gender balance of scientific and organization teams in CMA Network of Excellence and make this a principle inside the Network
- promoting the attraction and retention of women in science in general and in materials science in particular
- creating an equal-opportunity basis for female scientists, working against discrimination and facilitating the continuation of a professional career for women with family
- providing a basis for learning form good examples
- designing a programme for the promotion of gender equality as a prominent part of the corporate identify of the CMA
- creating a structure inside the Network allowing it to promote excellence through mainstreaming gender equality and establishing it as an example institution in this field
The Virtual Integrated Unit on Gender Mainstreaming is one of 11 different units in the CMA structure. The main seat of the Unit is the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. The leader and director of the VIU-GM is Prof. A. Czyrska-Filemonowicz, Dr Claire Bergman is the deputy director, the VIU-GM officer is Dr Agnieszka Snyder, and Ms Elzbieta Batko is responsible for the unit’s finances. To create a good information network and to improve coordination within the CMA structure, every institution involved was to identify a representative (contact person) who would be a link between their institution and the VIU-GM.
To coordinate the work within the CMA network and to ensure the implementation of the Gender Equality Action Plan, the Unit established a VIU-GM Steering Committee.
Besides working as a virtual unit, the members of the VIU-GM organize physical meetings, workshops and other activities to be able to meet and better understand each other, as well as to have the opportunity for open discussion.
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