Candidates have from October 5th to November 30th 2009 to apply for the Schlumberger Foundation 2010 Faculty for the Future fellowships.
Faculty for the Future fellowships are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD postdoctoral study in the physical sciences, engineering and related disciplines* to pursue advanced graduate study at top universities in their disciplines abroad.
Launched by the Schlumberger Foundation in 2004, Faculty for the Future has grown to become a community of 110 women from 35 countries.
The long-term goal of the Faculty for the Future program is to generate conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific disciplines. Grant recipients are therefore selected as much for their leadership capabilities as their scientific talents and they are expected to return to their home countries to continue their academic careers and inspire other young women.
Faculty for the Future grants are in the range of USD 25,000 to 50,000 per year, and may be renewed through to completion of studies subject to performance, self-evaluation, and recommendations from supervisors. The amount of the grant depends on the actual costs of study and living in the chosen location.
Candidates should be enrolled or applying to their selected graduate schools when submitting their Faculty for the Future grant request.
Candidates must have a proven track record of teaching experience, demonstrate active participation in faculty life and outreach to encourage young women into the sciences and hold an excellent academic record.
The online application form will be available as of October 5th, 2009.
Sample versions of new forms are now available for consultation at the link below so candidates can start preparing their application content.
Further information about the Faculty for the Future fellowship program can also be found at www.foundation.slb.com/fftf
Call for applications poster is available for download for your notice boards.
Newsletter 26 – European Commission – Directorate-General for Research – Unit scientific culture and gender issues
Newsletter n° 26 on scientific culture and gender issues
Contact: Vera Fehnle (vera.fehnle@ec.europa.eu)
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
CONFERENCE RESULTS:
The international conference “Changing research landscapes to make the most of human potential –
10 years of EU activities on Women in Science, and BEYOND” organised in collaboration with the
Czech EU Presidency in Prague on 14 and 15 May 2009, was attended by some 320 persons coming
from all over Europe, US, Korea and Australia. The conference brought together human resource
managers from universities and other research institutions, school-level science education experts,
researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders.
The presentations as well as the conference conclusions are available at the following website:
To further promote gender equality in scientific research within the 7th Framework Programme, the
European Commission’s Research DG has decided to develop a gender toolkit and training activities
which will provide the research community with practical tools to integrate gender aspects into FP7
research.
The leaflet is available at: http://www.yellowwindow.be/genderinresearch/
Before the training activities begin, four half-day information seminars on the project are scheduled
to take place in Brussels between June and November 2009. These information seminars follow a
dynamic format: short presentations (max 45 min) on the toolkit alternating with glimpses into the
actual training sessions in different fields are run through the afternoon.
First half-day information session, 24/06/2009 from 13.00 to 17.00.
Second half-day information session, 11/09/2009 from 11.00 to 15.00.
Third half-day information session, 21/09/2009 from 12.00 to 16.00.
Fourth half-day information session, 16/10/2009 from 11.00 to 15.00.
For more information about the training activities:
http://www.yellowwindow.be/genderinresearch/
MENTORING
After successful completion of the FP6 supported project, eument-net – the European network of
mentoring programmes for women academics and researchers, is now organised as legal association.
Recently, eument-net has published Policy recommendations, based on project results. The
recommendations are addressed to European and national policy makers, scientific and research
institutions, but also the industry and the civil community.
eument-net Policy recommendations can be downloaded from: www.eument-net.eu.
The eument-net Guideline manual: “Establishing mentoring in Europe”, is available in English and
Bulgarian. On the homepage, you also find the eument-net statutes, portrait and up-coming
events, among which the pre-announcement for an International Workshop on Mentor Training.
Mentoring programmes and stakeholders are encouraged to register on the eument-net platform, in
order to strengthen mentoring as tool to enhance gender equality in academia and research in
Europe.
COMMISSION CALLED FOR “EQUALITY BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN IN A TIME OF CHANGE”
On 15 and 16 June, the European Commission hosted an event in Brussels to discuss current
challenges and map future strategies for gender equality in Europe.
The conference on “Equality between women and men in a time of change” was an opportunity to
take stock of the achievements of the current EU Roadmap on equality between women and men,
coming to an end next year, and to discuss future priorities. With overall unemployment rising and
no immediate solution to the current recession, the debate focused also on the repercussions of the
economic crisis on gender equality. This two-day event featured speeches by ministers from the
Czech Republic, Spain, Austria and the United Kingdom, Commissioner Spidla and Commissioner
Wallström, EU representatives, European social partners, experts as well as NGOs.
The conference discussed how to make further progress for gender equality in a time of change.
Shared efforts over recent years have helped reduce gender inequalities across Europe, particularly
in female employment. But overall progress is still too slow in most areas and gender equality is far
from being achieved. Women still predominate in less valued jobs and sectors; they are on average
paid less than men and they occupy fewer positions of responsibility.
Related links:
1st European Conference on Gender and Diversity in Engineering and Science
Organised by VDI (German Engineers association), this international conference will be held on 11-
13 September 2009, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The conference aims to bring the gender and diversity arguments from the gender sciences to
industry and to those people who can make a change: HR managers, employers, scientists and
managers in engineering; both male and female. With this aim in view, there will be presentations
of best practice all over the world, results of studies showing the benefits of diversity and gender
conscious management, and information on worldwide work-life balance concepts in sciences and
engineering.
For more information: http://www.fib-conference2009.de/
2nd International PROMETEA Conference:
“The scientific and technological careers of women and men
Private temporalities, professional temporalities; public and corporate policies”
November 26-27, 2009
Maison de l’UNESCO, Paris (France)
In the wake of the 2007 International PROMETEA conference, the participants expressed the desire
to reflect on the question of the scientific and technological careers of women and to pursue the
dialogue between Human and Social Sciences on the one hand, and the preoccupations and reality
of corporate life on the other hand.
The 2009 Prometea conference will attempt to meet this demand:
v To create opportunities of exchange between researchers in HSS and corporate managers
v To take stock of the situation of women in these jobs and evaluate the impact of public
policies and of new corporate practices on their careers: more flexibility, development of
teleworking, blurring of the border line between private life and work, gender-neutral
parental leaves, day care services etc.
v To encourage the emergence of new social models better adapted to the reality of
contemporary social life. Also to consider new paths for men in order to make all jobs and
functions equally accessible to women and men
Conference languages are English and French.
This conference is organised in the framework of the European network Prometea, by the CDEFI
(Conference of the Heads of French Engineering Schools) and ECEPIE (Equality of opportunities in
engineering careers in Europe) with the support of the European Commission and French
institutions.
General information about the conference and detailed programme are available on
www.prometea.info/conference2009)
GOING DIVERSE: INNOVATIVE ANSWERS TO FUTURE CHALLENGES
International conference on Gender and Diversity in Science, Technology and Business
Organised by RWTH Aachen in cooperation with Imperial College, ETH Zürich and TU Delft
Aachen (Germany), 29 – 30 October 2009
“Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges” is the final event of the project
TANDEMplusIDEA; an international programme that fosters gender equality in science and
implements international mentoring as an instrument of gender-fair human resources development.
Further information about the conference is available at the following webpage:
http://www.idealeague.org/tandemplus/conference
EPWS Annual conference 2009
The European Platform of Women Scientists EPWS
will hold its Annual Conference:
Scientific Culture, Communication, Gender – An Innovative Challenge for Women Scientists
in Brussels, Belgium, on 25-26 June 2009.
The Conference is organised in collaboration with BeWiSe – Belgian Women in Science.
For more information, please see the following website: http://www.epws.net/2009/03/epwsannual-
conference-2009.html
21st edition of the European Union Contest for Young Scientists – 11-16 September
2009 – Paris, France
Every year, the EU celebrates its best young scientific talent at the European Union Contest for
Young Scientists.
This high profile event is open to young people aged between 14 and 20, who are winners of a first
prize in their national competitions. This way, the Contest gives these potential future scientists the
opportunity to compete with the best of their contemporaries at European level. The Contest aims
to reward scientific achievement but also to demonstrate to a wider audience that science is fun.
This year’s edition of the Contest will be hosted for the very first time by France, and will take
place at the prestigious Palais de la découverte in Paris from 11-16 September. About 140 talented
students from 37 different countries are expected to compete for the top prizes and honorary
awards.
For more information, please send an e-mail to: contact@eucys09.fr
More details on the EUCYS can be found at: www.eucys09.fr and
funding-report_en.pdf
The report will be represented on 2 July 2009 in the dbb Forum Berlin, Atrium IV from 10h30 –
12h00. For more information, please see: http://www.epws.net
She Figures 2009, leaflet, presenting some preliminary results of the She Figures 2009 data
collection. The She Figures 2009 booklet will be published in September 2009 and uploaded on the
DG Research Women in Science website.
This 2-days workshop will be held as a week-end event on August 22-23 and will be immediately followed by the Introductory Workshop, August 24-28. Its aim on the one hand is to introduce advanced graduate students and postdocs to Tropical Geometry. On the other hand, it is supposed to provide a platform for interaction that is particularly tailored to women in the early stages of their careers in mathematics. There will be two short-courses of 2x 1h-lectures by Hannah Markwig and Federico Ardila, a number of research talks by prominent women in the field and a panel discussion on career issues of female mathematicians. As an important activity of the workshop, we plan for a session of (very) short contributions by participants, consisting of focused two to three slides each. We strongly encourage participants of all levels to send an abstract to us by email along with completing their registration. We would be very happy to see you at MSRI for this workshop! Also, please help us circulate this information and forward it in particular to female graduate students and postdocs. There is limited funding available for travel and lodging expenses and female researchers will be given priority for support. The application deadline for funding is Monday, June 15, 2009. Registration will be open until the workshop starts. We are looking forward to an inspiring week-end in the beginning of the tropical semester at MSRI!
We are seeking to appoint someone with expertise in Analysis, which is to be interpreted broadly, so including Applied Analysis, Complex Analysis, Numerical Analysis and Stochastic Analysis.
At present there is one lectureship advertised, however we expect that a second lectureship will also be approved shortly, also with expertise in Analysis. I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of anyone who might be interested.
Positions for PhD students, early post docs and visiting scientists at
CMA, University of Oslo
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The EU-funded Initial Training Network SAGA (www.saga-network.eu) is
looking for promising candidates to fill its available positions. In
particular, the following positions are available at the Centre of
Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, Norway (www.cma.uio.no):
• 1 individual 3-year PhD student position for an “early stage researcher”
(see http://saga-network.eu/index.php/project/wp-2/algebraic-spline)
• 1 position for initial training of “experienced researchers” (typically
postdocs) for a duration of 12 months (with possibility of extension to 24
months)
• 1 or 2 positions for “visiting scientists” for a duration of up to two
months.
The successful candidates will contribute to the workpackages of SAGA, in
particular to WP2 (Geometric Computing – Algebraic Tools).
For all positions, the time of employment must end not later than October
31, 2012. All candidates must satisfy the eligibility criteria as
described in Section III.3(2) of Annex III: Specific Provisions, Marie
Curie Initial training networks, which is available at:
The closing date for applications for the PhD position is March 27, 2009
(late applicants can still be considered), and for the postdoc position
May 29, 2009. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
In order to apply for these positions, please send your CV and an
application letter to
Prof. Ragni Piene, CMA/Department of Mathematics,
University of Oslo,
P.O.Box 1053 Blindern,
NO-0316 Oslo, Norway or by e-mail: ragnip@math.uio.no
The 14th GENERAL MEETING OF EUROPEAN WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS (EWM) will be held in NOVI SAD, SERBIA,during August 25-28, 2009, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences under the patronage of UNESCO.
Please circulate the following to anyone you know who might be interested!
There is a new lectureship in Mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London with a projected starting date of September 1, 2009, or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates from all areas of pure mathematics are invited to apply.
Salary: £33,501 rising to £38,376 per annum inclusive of London Allowance.
This job is full time and permanent. The closing date for completed applications is Friday 1st May 2009.
Interviews are due to be held towards the end of May.
Birkbeck is the UK’s leading provider of part-time evening education. This means that almost all your teaching takes place on two evenings a week, which gives a good deal of uninterrupted time in the day for research. The flexible working arrangements may be particularly appealing for those with childcare responsibilities.
For further information and to apply for this post, please visit www.bbk.ac.uk/jobs and search using reference 10226. For informal queries, feel free to mail me on s.hart@bbk.ac.uk
Thank you,
Sarah Hart
(Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
*Junior Professor (W1) in Algebra*
Applications are invited for the above position in the Mathematical Institute. Candidates should have the potential to achieve international recognition for their research in an area which enhances and extends our current research strengths. They should have well developed plans for attracting external research funding.
Teaching duties includes courses for mathematics majors and trainee teachers, as well as service teaching.
This is a four-year fixed-term position. A two-year extension is possible, conditional on a positive evaluation of your achievements in research, teaching and administration. Should it subsequently be possible to appoint you to a permanent position, then it would not be necessary to advertise that position (§ 78(1) ThuerHG).
Candidates must hold an above average PhD and have demonstrated their potential for research of international excellence trough additional publications. They should be skilled at teaching. Experience at universities in more than one country would be welcomed. Suitably qualified applicants are invited to send their applications to:
The Dean
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
D-07743 Jena
Germany
Applications should consist of a CV, list of publications, and photocopies of degree certificate. Your CV should include a passport photograph and detail your experience at teaching and attracting research funding.
Letters of application should arrive by *April 30, 2009.*
The Friedrich Schiller University is an equal opportunity employer.
Female
scientists are particularly encouraged to apply. In accordance with state law, handicapped candidates with equally good credentials will be given preference.
Applications from foreign scientists are welcome. If appointed they must acquire the ability to teach in German within two years.Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Burkhard Kuelshammer
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Researchers from abroad are invited to apply for a post-doctoral or senior research grant in a public laboratory in Paris. Supporting research across all disciplines is one of the City of Paris’ priorities. Read about the invitation for online applications at Paris.fr.
Strengthening the international scientific appeal of the capital is a policy priority for the city council. Since 2003, the City of Paris has been offering a selective programme for post-doctoral and senior researchers from abroad, enabling public laboratories in Paris to reinforce their collaborative work with other major cities.
Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor responsible for Innovation, Research and Universities states: “207 researchers have already come to Paris as a result of this scheme. Given the success of this programme and the absolute requirement to invest in the knowledge economy, I would like the city to make an even larger contribution by doubling its annual budget to 1.75 million euros, which represents approximately 80 grants per year”.
All disciplines are eligible
Researchers from all disciplines are eligible. The scientific excellence of their application (applicant – project – host laboratory) is the main selection criterion for the experts on the City of Paris Scientific Committee responsible for considering the applications.
