Title: Fishing from a bigger pool: excellent science needs women Date and Location: 18.07.2006, 08:30 bis 18.07.2006, 11:15 Forum am Deutschen Museum, Room "Solaris" Type of activity: Seminar Target audience: Scientific Community, Policy Makers, General Public Name of Organiser: Johannes Klumpers Institution of Organiser: European Commission - DG Research - Women and science Unit, Brussels, Belgium Abstract: Attracting and retaining more women is vital for the future of European research. Nevertheless, European female students are still significantly underrepresented in engineering studies (less than 25%). Women all too rarely occupy posts of full professors in Europe. In this symposium some examples of positive actions will be illustrated and the subsequent debate will focus on their sufficiency/ fairness. Are positive actions really positive in reality? Do positive actions for women discriminate against men? Does gender mainstreaming reinforce the position of women or would positive actions be more efficient?

Name of Participant: André Beraud Address: Instituts Nationaux des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Centre des Humanités, Villeurbanne, France

Name of Participant: Maria Stratigaki Address: Centre for social morphology and social science - Panteion University, Athens, Greece

Name of Participant: Barbara Hartung Address: Gender Equality Department, Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture Hannover, Germany

Name of Participant: Annette Williams Address: UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering Technology (UKRC), Bradford College, UK

Name of Participant: Kari Melby Address: National Committee for Promoting Gender Mainstreaming in HE and Research, Faculty of Arts, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Name of Participant: Roberta Schaller-Steidl Address: Federal Ministry for Education, Vienna, Austria

Name of Participant: Dalia Satkovskiene Address: Vilnius University – Faculty of Physics, Lithuania