Objective Proposal abstract The project aims at strengthening the position of women scientists in academia and leading and decision-making positions, through the instrument of mentoring, by building up a network of Mentoring programmes supporting junior women scientists from various regions in the wider Europe, through the:A. Exchange, among mentoring programmes, of experience and best practices in setting up and implementing mentoring programmes for high potential junior women scientists at local, regional and cross-national/transnational levels, and knowledge transfer at a wider European level;B. Definition of means and long-lasting structures of cooperation among mentoring programmes for high potential junior women scientists on a wider European level;C. Strengthening women's impact on science decision-making and policy definition through mentoring and definition of standards for academic women scientists' support, by exchange of experiences and networking;D. Dissemination of best practices, guidelines and standards at institutional, national and European level.By coordinating mentoring programmes for women scientists, the strategic objective of the project is to contribute to increase gender equality and to improve the position of women in science in the wider Europe, to contribute to create an involving society and, as a result, to help structuring the European Research Area. Keywords Gender mainstreaming Mentoring Role models Women network Programme(s) FP6-SOCIETY - Science and society: specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration : "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) SOCIETY - Science and Society Call for proposal FP6-2005-SCIENCE-AND-SOCIETY-17 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CA - Coordination action Coordinator UNIVERSITÉ DE FRIBOURG Address Avenue de l'europe 20 Fribourg Switzerland See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all INSTITUTE FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH - BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Bulgaria EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6, patriarch evtimii blvd. Sofia See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET MANNHEIM Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Schloss Mannheim See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Keplerstrasse 7 Stuttgart See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITÄT BERN Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hochschulstrasse 4 Bern See on map UNIVERSITÄT WIEN Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address Dr. karl lueger ring 1 Vienna See on map Links Website Opens in new window
