SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

BALTIC STATES NETWORK “WOMEN IN SCIENCES AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY”

 

Introductory conference

Holliday Inn hotel

Vilnius, 2006 March 06-07

Participants

 

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Agenda:

 

Monday, 06 of March

 

09.00-10.00 Registration

10.00. Welcome

Aušrinė Burneikienė,  Lithuanian Ombudsman of the Equal Opportunities

Raimondas Mockeliūnas, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Lithuanian Education and Science

Birutė Bukauskaitė, Agency for International Science and Technology Development Programmes in Lithuania

Prof. Zenonas Rudzikas, President of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Birutė Pociūtė, Vice-rector of Vilnius University

10.30. Introductory session

10.30-10.40 Short review of the history of the project. Coordinator Assoc Prof.  Dr. Dalia Šatkovskienė

10.40-11.40. Short presentation of partner organizations.

Vilnius University

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University

Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania

Baltic Institute of Social Sciences

University of Tartu

Polish Physical Society

11.40-12.00. Coffee brake

12.00-12.45. Review of the project administrative and financial procedures. Prof. V.Laurinavičius

12.45-13.00 Review of the coordination and management structure and decision making mechanisms Dr. A. Kupliauskienė, VU ITPA.

13.00 -14.30 Lunch

14.30- 15.00. Review of the Commission requirements Project Officer Mr. Robert O'MEARA

15.00. Technical Session

15.00-15.45.Presentation of the project programme (Review of technical objectives, deliverables and time scales) Coordinator Assoc Prof.  Dr.Dalia Šatkovskienė

15.45-16.15. Coffee brake

16.15-16.40 Review of resources (finance and manpower) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Feliksas Kuliešius (VU)

16.40-16.55.Review of exploitation potential (including plans for future publications) Assoc. Prof. Živilė Rutkūnienė (KTU)

16.55-17.10 Actions for the coming period (agree on the calendar)

19.00- Conference dinner

 

Tuesday, 07 of March

 

09.00. Technical meeting

9.00-9.30. Discrimination Against Women in Science: Forms, Causes, and Ways of Overcoming.  A.Elyashevich and E. Evdokimova (St Petersburg, Russia)

9.30. Sociological Session.

9.30. -9.45. Coordination of the sociological investigations provided in the Baltic States Region (The preliminary time table of investigation provided in the Baltic States, communication between LT, LV and EE teams, reporting etc.) Assoc. Prof.   G. Purvaneckienė (VU)

9.45-10.15. Methology of the investigations (The main goals of the study; methodology; milestones; discussion on the preliminary questioner etc.) Dr. Rūta Žiliukaitė, (VU )

10.15-11.00.  Discussions. 

11.00-11.30. Coffee brake

11.30.Creation of the Monitoring and Information systems Session

11.30-12.00. Coordination and technical implementation Assoc. Prof. Dr. Feliksas Kuliešius (VU)

12.00.-12.15. Establishment of Baltic States Data Basis on Women in Sciences and HT (Principles of formation of Data basis and possible descriptors for the search, plan and time table, communication between teams, reporting. Assoc. Prof. Živilė Rutkūnienė (KTU)

12.15.-13.00. Discussions

13.00-14.30. Lunch

14.30. Strategy Creation Session.

14.30-14.45. Coordination of the Creation of the Regional Strategy Women in Sciences and HT (Goals, principles work plan, time table, milestones, reporting. Methology. Coordination communications between LT, LV and EE teams, etc.). Aušra Gribauskienė (MESLT)

14.45-15.15. Discussions 

15.15-15.45 Coffee brake

15.45-16.15. Closing ceremony

16.30-17.30. Dinner

18.00. Ballet “Acid Cityin Opera & Ballet House, . Vienuolio 1