Gender Summit 9 Europe:Gender-based research, innovation and development for sustainable economies and societal wellbeing

The Gender Summit is a platform for evidence-based and consensus-led dialogue between scientists, policy makers, gender scholars, and key stakeholder groups in science endeavours. The 2016 Gender SummitEurope coincides with important policy developments in Europe and globally that look towards science knowledge and technological innovation to create a better future for all.  Significant here are: the new EU Gender Action Plan and Horizon 2020; the UN Sustainable Development Goals; the African Union’s Africa 2063 and Continental Strategy for Education in Africa agenda; and the OECD vision for Inclusive Innovation.  It is, therefore, right that this year’s Gender Summit should also open up dialogue on how understanding of sex/gender issues in research and innovation can also ensure sustainable and effective development.

1. New research on when, why and how sex-gender issues impact on quality of research, innovation, and development outputs and outcomes
2. How gender continues to be addressed in Horizon 2020
3. How to mainstream gender into the EU new vision for ERA of Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World
4. How the global policy agendas to make the world a better place for all can benefit from incorporating scientific understanding of sex-gender issues
5. New efforts to develop reliable, and region and sector sensitive, performance metrics and gender equality indicators and statistics, and to integrate them into research, innovation, and development policy actions
6. The contributions made by the Gender Summit platform, and its global community of experts and practitioners, to advance gender-sensitive and responsive research, innovation, and development.

The GS9 Europe invites abstracts on the following themes:

• Environment and quality of human life (e.g. pollution and climate change effects on the lives of women and men)
• Sex and gender dynamics in ecosystem services (e.g. sustainable production of fish or plants for food, protecting biodiversity)
• Sex-gender effects in research, innovation and development (e.g. differences in results and outcomes for women and men)
• Sex-gender knowledge in science curriculum and researcher training (e.g. clinical medicine, safety engineering, research standards)
• Gender in decision-making and leadership (e.g. research teams, assessment of excellence, academic governance)
• Gender analysis for design and implementation of policy (e.g. open science and innovation, sustainable development)
• Scientific understanding of sex and gender (e.g. at molecular, cell, physiological, and socio-cultural levels)

Deadline: 1 July 2016, 23:59pm CET