• H2020
• Policy & Research

GenPORT, a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project, is formally launching its portal for quality gender and science resources on 21 April this year.

The portal aims to provide information about published research, studies and events, as well as access to expert advice and networking opportunities. Its launch will take place at the European Parliament with its members and other policy makers, GenPORT representatives, and gender and STEM experts.

The opening session will be chaired by MEP Eva Kaili, who also represents the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) as first vice-chair, and is currently working towards a PhD in International Political Economy at the University of Piraeus, Greece. The session will consider the gender landscape in European STEM subjects, as well as how GenPORT can actively influence and contribute to European policy making. Following this, the event will transfer to the Residence Palace Press Centre, where the co-ordinator of GenPORT, Dr Jörg Müller, will give his welcoming speech.

Müller is the current senior researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3 – UOC) in Barcelona, Spain. As a key figure in IN3’s Gender and ICT research program, he obtained a PhD in Communications at the European Graduate School (EGS) in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and his degree in Sociology and Computer Science was acquired at the Free-University in Berlin, Germany.

Other key participants will include Nordforsk’s Lotta Strandberg, Gotelind Alber from Gender Climate Change, Arn Sauer of the German Federal Environment Agency, Dr Ineke Klinge of Maastricht University and Horizon 2020’s Advisory Group on Gender, and Pan European Networks’ own Brussels editor Michael Brennan.

Further information and registration details for the Brussels event can be found here.