ECEPIE - history and future of a French association devoted to gender equality in ST EPWS Berlin 2015

1- A brief history of the association 2-A few comments 3- Present activities 4-What about the future ? EPWS Berlin 2015

1- when and why - Creation of a EU consortium INDECS project in Creation of ECEPIE, September 2003: initiative of Yvonne Pourrat and Anne-Sophie Genin - The situation in Engineering Schools in France : too small to create research teams - - Opportunities with EU-funded projects: - - INDECS Womeng Prometea Helena Gender Time EPWS Berlin 2015

1- when and why -The different steps : from building a consortium to implementing recommendations and tools - - becoming members of different networks: ex. EPWS since its creation - - Organising summer Universities : Lyon in 2004, Chalon Organising 4 international conferences in Paris - - Initiating projects like « le réseau francilien » - the « île de France Region network » - - Attending conferences, seminars etc... EPWS Berlin 2015

2- Comments - The first members were not gender specialists - From engineers to scientists : enlargement of the perspective - From understanding to implementing - Difficulty to achieve an institutional insertion/inclusion - - Difficulty to have permanent positions devoted to gender equality in institutions : ex. INSA in Lyon - - Difficulty to disseminate results outside the circle of specialised networks : ex. How to disseminate in engineering schools and influence them ? - - Difficulty to finance ECEPIE EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities - Gender Time project : The objective of the project is to identify and implement self-tailored gender equality action plans and specific measures for scientific institutions - Members : 10 teams from 8 different countries - EU - funded collaborative project - Science in Society, FP7 Project value: 3.33 Million Euros EC funding: 2.33 Million Euros EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities Gender Time project : Egalité des Chances dans les Etudes et la Profession d’Ingénieur en EuropeEgalité des Chances dans les Etudes et la Profession d’Ingénieur en Europe Coordinator,France Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and CultureInter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture Austria The University of PaduaThe University of Padua Italy Linköping UniversityLinköping University Sweden University Paris Est CréteilUniversity Paris Est Créteil France Mihailo Pupin InstituteMihailo Pupin Institute Serbia Bergische Universität WuppertalBergische Universität WuppertalGermany Loughborough UniversityLoughborough University United Kingdom Tecnalia Research & InnovationTecnalia Research & Innovation Spain Donau-Universität KremsDonau-Universität Krems Austria EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities Gender Time project : - Identify and implement the best systemic approach to increase the participation and career advancement of women researchers in selected institutions - Enable effective knowledge transfer across the consortium and beyond - Evaluation of outcome/comparison EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities Gender Time project, outcomes : - Publications in different journals, reviews in Europe -Participation in numerous conferences, seminars etc... - Organization of four networking events with other projects (EGERA, STAGES, FESTA, GENIS LAB, INTEGER, GENOVATE). -Publication by the EC in : ReportSummary ( Gender Time project's permanent factsheet at: - Final Conference in Paris in September 2016, a call for papers will be published soon EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities - Réseau francilien, « Ïle de France network » - Funded by the Région Île de France - - September 2004 « L’égalité femmes/hommes dans les métiers scientifiques, l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche » - - Network of institutions already implementing measures in gender equality: exchange of experiences, analysis of measures ; transfer of ideas and recommendations (8 institutions ) - - dissemination of the work done - - attracting new institutions which do not have any action plan yet EPWS Berlin 2015

3- Present activities Réseau francilien, « Parisian network » - Results after one year : - - An instrument of analysis has been established : possible to compare - - A series of emblematic measures for every institution : institutional culture, new indicators and diffusion of good practice - - a report has been written and will be disseminated EPWS Berlin 2015

4-What about the future ? - - Necessity and difficulty to reach the stakeholders ? - - Difficulty to convince them to do something - Ex. In France obligation to have one person in charge of gender equality action (Chargé(e) de mission) but no funding, no real involvement of the high management - - Difficulty to have young colleagues involved in Gender equality : it is against their careers EPWS Berlin 2015

4-What about the future ? - Persistence and adaptation of traditional discrimination strategies /mecanisms : necessity to go on with research on the subject. cf Mergaert, Lut and Emanuela Lombardo (2014): ‘Resistance to implementing gender mainstreaming in EU research policy’, in: Weiner, Elaine and Heather MacRae (eds): “The persistent invisibility of gender in EU policy” European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Special issue 1, Vol. 18, Article 5, pp Different kinds of resistance : - Implicit personal, - - Explicit personal, - - Institutional EPWS Berlin 2015

Conclusion - Working on gender is like opening a new window on the society we live in ex. Reading Simone de Beauvoir at 17 - The evolution is real but very slow.... so we need EPWS ! EPWS Berlin 2015