Gender Equality in Responsible Research & Innovation

Hired Lecturer PhD in the Department of Labor and Social Security Law at Jaume I University in Castellón and coordinator of the research group “Law, gender and effective equality of women and men”. A PhD in Law, his doctoral thesis earned the prize of the Economic and Social Committee from the Valencian Community in 2007. He has been coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Equality and Gender in the Public and Private Spheres, in which he continues to lecture. He has also lectured the MA-PhD in Gender Equality in Humanities, Social and Legal Science, organised by the Superior Council for Scientific Research. He is a member of the GENET Association —Cross-sectional study network of gender in humanities, social and legal science, and Secretary of the Isonomia Foundation on equal opportunities. Currently, he takes part in the team drawing up the draft law for the effective equality of women and men in the Valencian Community.

Project manager of the European project ETHNA System, researcher in the Practical Ethics and Democracy group and lecturer of Journalism in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. She has worked as a journalist in several media, in the Communication and Publications Service of the UJI and in the Scientific Culture Unit of this University. Graduated in Journalist by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and with a PhD in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. She has extended her studies with the Master’s Degree in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication and with the Interuniversity Master’s Degree in Ethics and Democracy. Her research lines include Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Communication Science, Citizen Science, Social Responsibility and Business and Institutional Ethics.

Marcel is a R&I funding schemes designer and evaluator at the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR). His work focuses on the innovative potential of social sciences, humanities and arts and on gender equality in research and innovation. Prior to joining TA CR in 2013 Marcel spent five years at the Fraunhofer Institute for International Management and Knowledge Economy in Leipzig in the area of innovative transfer systems. Since 2015, Marcel supports career development and gender equality in the junior R&I funding scheme entitled ZÉTA. He is engaged in the H2020 project GEECCO focusing on the role of Research Funding Organisation in addressing gender equality in the academia and gender dimension in the content of R&I. He is also a member of External Advisory Committee of the H2020’s Gender-SMART project.

Donia is deputy managing director of the Vienna Science and Technology Funds (WWTF). In WWTF’s funding activities she is - among other things - responsible for the ``Vienna Reserach Groups for Young Investigators`` program, a funding scheme to bring young excellent researchers to Vienna. In her work for the WWTF GmbH Donia Lasinger is specialized in consulting and strategy projects. Moreover, she is partner in diverse national and European projects in the sphere of responsible research and innovation, gender, evaluation and strategy development. Donia Lasinger studied economic sciences in Austria and Ireland and is an expert in strategy and innovation management. During and after her doctoral studies she worked as strategy and management consultant on a national and international level. Her main competences include expertise in innovation research, strategic development and research and innovation policy.