More than 70 participants convened in Trondheim, Norway, in September for the Annual EUGAIN Workshop, which was collocated with this year’s ACM’s womENcourage 2023 conference.
The EUGAIN workshop began with a panel titled “Transferring Insights: Lessons from Research to Increase Gender Inclusion in Tech” featuring panelists Athina Vakali (Greece), Tayana Conte (Brazil), Alexander Serebrenik (Netherlands), and Sahar Asadi (Sweden) and moderated by Karolina Bolesta and Sonay Caner-Yıldırım.
The morning continued with the session “Interventions and Initiatives of Gender Inclusion in Academia and Industry,” chaired by Serena Versino and Nehir Yasan-Ak:
- Vandana Singh (USA): Open Source Software Community Inclusion Initiatives to Support Women Participation
- Paloma Diaz (Spain): A hands-on educational workshop to discover gender biases in web design
- Didem Unat (Turkey): Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Advancing Gender Equality in Academia
- Magda Bakali (Greece): Initiatives for Gender Inclusion: FeminICT and AfriConEU
- Katja Legisa (Belgium): Supporting Women Digital Entrepreneurs and Leaders
After lunch, a session in the form of a Roundtable Discussion, chaired by Mara Diaconu “Making CS Education Gender-Inclusive” was held, and the presentation of the Women STEM UP project.
Finally, the afternoon concluded with the highly interactive session “Connecting the Dots: Fostering Gender-Balanced Academia and Industry”, moderated by Irene Zanardi and Elmira Yadollahi, see slides and posters here.
Chairs:
General chair: Anna Szlavi (Norway)
Program chairs: Karolina Bolesta (Poland), Sonay Caner-Yıldırım (Turkey), Serena Versino (Italy), Elmira Yadollahi (Sweden), Nehir Yasan-Ak (Turkey), Irene Zanardi (Switzerland)
