News and events (english)
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The GEECCO UNIRC Team realized a video for the training of academic staff about Teaching & Tesearch. The training has been sent to the academic staff of UNIRC. The video is also available at:
Training - Teaching & Research - Prof.ssa Rossella Marzullo
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The GEECCO UNIRC Team realized the "Catalog of women' research at UNIRC" which list all the women' scientific publications in the three years period 2017-2019. The next edition of this catalog will be realized the next year as an action of the GEP of UNIRC. The Catalog is availale in English language
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/documenti/catalog-of-women-s-research-at-unirc
The GEECCO UNIRC Team realized a document which provides some indications about the organization of scientific event in the respect of gender differences. The note is available in Italian and English languages.
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/documenti/organizzazione-eventi
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The GEECCO UNIRC Team realized a document which provides an overview about those courses active DICEAM that, at the moment, include or could include gender topics with an esteemation of their relevance based on how much gender topics cover the course length.
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/documenti/diceam-courses-survey
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The GEECCO project has opened a virtual office for mentoring the younger generation of PhD students and researchers on issues related to research projects, in order to give equal opportunities to the numerically underrepresented categories in the academic community of the Mediterranean.
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/virtual-office-for-projects
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
Emilia Paone, new PhD from the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, was awarded the silver medal in the European competition "European Young Chemist Award 2020". (PhD students section).
Emilia Paone presented a contribution entitled "The basic catalysis of lignin-first biorefinery" illustrating the results of the research activities carried out during the PhD at the Chemistry Laboratory of the DICEAM Department (tutor: Prof. Francesco Mauriello) and focused on the valorisation of lignocellulosic biomasses in chemical products with high added value through innovative chemical processes promoted by palladium-based bimetallic catalysts.
Our best wishes to Dr. Emilia Paone.
http://www.diceam.unirc.it/articoli/23124/european-young-chemist-award-medaglia-dargento-per-emilia-paone
Recently the Regional Commission for Equality and Equal Opportunities between men and women met (by videoconference) to start a process aimed at sharing useful data and information on the needs of the regional labour market for women. The meeting was attended by Professor Domenico Nicolò, Professor of Business Economics at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria.
This initiative was created by Cinzia Nava, President of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Calabria Region in order to support women's work by involving all the Calabrian universities and all stakeholders both to develop concrete actions in favour of the promotion of female entrepreneurship and to support employment and female entrepreneurship.
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/training/progetti-europei
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
2019 Gender Budgeting 2019 prepared by the CUG and currently being approved by the Academic Senate with proposals for corrective actions available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/images/pdf/Relazione_sulla_situazione_del_Personale_anno2019.pdf
Valeria Solesin Prize - "Gender equality, meritocracy, enhancement of female talent".
The fourth edition of the Valeria Solesin award for undergraduates and graduates, also in STEM subjects. 12 scholarships, 30,700 euros and all the Italian universities involved are up for grabs.
For the fourth year in a row, the Valeria Solesin Prize, a competition aimed at students from all Italian universities, both public and private, has been renewed, inspired by the studies of the Venetian researcher who tragically died in the Paris bombing on 13 November 2015. Given the importance of the initiative over the years, although compatible with the evolution of the ongoing emergency situation linked to Covid-19, the Award will be an integral part of the Cultural Palimpsest 2020 of the City of Milan, dedicated this year to Women's Talents.
Admitted to compete for the master's theses discussed by 31 July 2020 in Economics, Sociology, Law, Political Science, Demography, Statistics and confirmed the opening, inaugurated on the occasion of the 2019 edition, to the disciplinary areas related to Engineering, Education and Psychology. The deadline for the presentation of the works is 7 August 2020.
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The participation of the GEECCO UNIRC team in the IDC 2021 International Symposium which will be held at the Ruffo Castle in Scilla (RC) from 16 to 18 September 2021 has been confirmed. The symposium originally scheduled from 21 to 23 September 2020 has been moved due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
On 23 June 2020 the "Virtual Café for the International Women's Day Engineer" will be held. To celebrate the International Women in Engineering Day, Bureau Veritas has organised a Virtual Café in webinar mode for female students and recent graduates in Engineering. Some professionals will tell how Bureau Veritas gives equal career opportunities, trying to break down the gender gap and which Bureau Veritas departments may be the most suitable for an engineer's career expectations.
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
On 15/06/2020 the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria activated the office for "Administrative and organisational support to Equal Opportunities activities" coordinated by the Rector's delegate for Equal Opportunities.
All the departments of the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria approved the "Guidelines for Teaching & Research", prepared by the GEECCO UNIRC team that, is avalaible on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
Guidelines for Teaching & Research
All the departments of the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria approved the "Guidelines on equal opportunities for staff selection bards", prepared by the GEECCO UNIRC team that, that is avalaible on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
Guidelines on equal opportunities for staff selections boards
A new section of the GEECCO UNIRC site on Best practices is now active on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/best-practice
The video contribution on “Gender and Robots” is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/presentazioni
GEECCO UNIRC participated to the Open day 20/05/2020. Video and brochure are available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/presentazioni/8-home/24-newsletter-unirc-5
The GEECCO UNIRC team has realized the Yearly gender database document of the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria for the year 2019. It is available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
The exhibition "Integrating the gender dimension in the content of research dimension" is now preliminarly available on the UNIRC GEECCO site at:
http://geecco.unirc.it/images/pdf/Exhibition.pdf
The new edition of our newsletter (italian language) it is now available on the UNIRC GEECCO siteat:
The GEECCO UNIRC team partecipated to the "Open Day" organized by the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria to present courses. Brochure and video produced by the GEECCO UNIRC team addressed to female students are available on the UNIRC GEECCO siteat:
http://geecco.unirc.it/index.php/presentazioni/8-home/24-newsletter-unirc-5
Video on student support are available on the UNIRC GEECCO siteat:
http://geecco.unirc.it/images/video/Orientamento.mp4
Video on Erasmus day are available on the UNIRC GEECCO siteat:
http://geecco.unirc.it/images/video/erasmus.mp4