From 1/08/09 - 4/08/09 the MOTIVATION consortium members have met in Sweden for discussing intermediate results.News and events |
December 2009
We invite you to the conference "Learning gender -- Learning technology. Media as educational arenas" during 3rd-4th May 2010, organized by Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), GRAZ - AUSTRIA. For more information see pdf.
November 2009
A new working paper on Austrian, German and French MOTIVATION results has been published by Anita Thaler, Jennifer Dahmen and Cloé Pinault. The paper titled "European media images of science, engineering and technology" can be retrieved here: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index.php/filemanager/download/1567/IFZ-EWP%202-2009.pdf
The Final Conference Schedule is available on Final Conference section at Conference Programme.
October 2009
The Final Conference “The Gender Perspective of Young People’s Images of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET).” is upcoming on 10th -12th December 2009 – University of Wuppertal / Germany. Latest rough schedule and templates - see the Final Conference section.
September 2009
Anita Thaler and Jennifer Dahmen have published a working paper called "Images of science, engineering and technology - a question of gender?" on interim MOTIVATION results which can be retrieved publically online under: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index.php/article/articleview/1621/1/154
August 2009
From 1/08/09 - 4/08/09 the MOTIVATION consortium members have met in Sweden for discussing intermediate results.
Anita Thaler and Els Rommes will present MOTIVATION at the 6th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, which will take place from 5th to 8th of August 2009 in Stockholm. The presentation of Anita Thaler has the title "'Learning Gender' - The informal learning potential of (digital) media" and comprises current research including results from WP 2 of the EU project MOTIVATION. Els Rommes will inform the audience about tennagers' prototypes of SET people and how to overcome them in her paper on 'Cutting through the glass walls'.
Jennifer Dahmen will give an expert input on „How TV influences technology images“ based on the MOTIVATION WP2 results at the workshop “Technology in TV”. Invited participants include representatives from media, industry and research institutions. The workshop is organised by acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering and takes place on August 25th in Esslingen.
July 2009
First results of the Austrian and German fieldwork for MOTIVATION will be presented by Anita Thaler and Jennifer Dahmen on the Annual SEFI conference in Rotterdam / The Netherlands (July 1 – 4, 2009). MOTIVATION’s topics are directly connected to the central theme of the conference, which focuses on “Attracting young people to engineering”.
For more information about the SEFI conference go to: http://www.sefi2009.com/nl/default.asp
Anita Thaler and Jennifer Dahmen will promote MOTIVATION over the Atlantic: on the 7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: (EISTA), both will give a paper on “Science Education in Europe – Images, Approaches, Innovations”. The conference takes place from 10th to 13th July 2009 in Orlando/ USA.
More about this year’s EISTA conference on: http://www.iiis2009.org/imsci/website/default.asp?vc=5
June 2009
Felizitas Sagebiel and Jennifer Dahmen will represent MOTIVATION at the Annual Conference of the European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS). This year’s conference focuses on Scientific Culture, Communication, Gender - An Innovative Challenge for Women Scientists and will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 25-26 June 2009.
Further information about the conference: http://www.epws.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=413&Itemid=4545
Jennifer Dahmen from the German MOTIVATION team participates at the US-Europe Workshop for Research on Gender and Diversity in Engineering Education which takes place in Delft, The Netherlands from June 30 - July 1, 2009.
Workshop information available at: http://www.inesweb.org/gender09info
June 2009
7th European Feminist Research Conference - “Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics”
MOTIVATION will be presented on the 7th European Feminist Research Conference in Utrecht/ Netherlands. The conference takes place from 4th to 7th June.
The project will be represented by a paper of Els Rommes ('Imagine all the (engineering) people'. A comparison between teenagers' and popular media's images of engineers and their study choices) and a poster of Felizitas Sagebiel about "Problems of Comparative Feminist Research on SET in European Projects".
For further information about the conference see: http://www.genderstudies.nl/efrc/index.php?pageid=169
May 2009
In the frame of the awareness week "Chances for female scientists in the 7th Framework Programme" organised by the German 'Women into EC-Research' section Felizitas Sagebiel as coordinator and MOTIVATION as project will be introduced to a wider audience. On Monday 4th of May 2009 the kick-off-event will take place in Berlin, including a podium discussion and the release of the poster exhibition "Chance EC research", showing 10 successful female scientists out of the 7th Framework Programme. Supplementary to the poster exhibition, which can be loaned by interested institutions in whole Germany, a booklet with short descriptions of the related projects will be published with the aim to encourage female researchers for sharing their knowledge on a European level.
Information (available in German) about the event can be found here: http://www.eubuero.de/arbeitsbereiche/fraueneuforschung/aktionswoche#Auftakt
The leaflet, including a small version of the poster with Felizitas Sagebiel, can be downloaded here.
May 2009
Austria: MOTIVATION at the 8th IAS-STS Annual Conference - "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies"
From 4th-5th May 2009 the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) will host its 8th Annual Conference focusing on "Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies" in Graz, Austria. Four presentations from Austria, France and Germany will disseminate first MOTIVATION project results:
"MOTIVATION-a project on the image of science. Approach and interim results" (Jennifer Dahmen)
"Open gates, closed gates – mathematics and sciences in secondary education in France" (Cloe Pinault)
"Learning technology?" About the informal learning potential of youth magazines (Anita Thaler)
"The psychological meaning of colour: A focus on gender and SET representations in youth magazines" (Magdalena Julia Wicher)
For further information see: http://www.ifz.tugraz.at/index.php/article/articleview/1635/1/16/
March 2009
Waar blijven de VROUWEN? (pdf file)
December 2008
Motivation in Austria (pdf file)
November 2008
Dutch periodical Dag (jpg file)
September 2008
MOTIVATION in an Austrian daily newspaper (pdf file)
May 2008
The first expert meeting will take place in Barcelona, July 8-9, 2008. The following invited experts will take part:
Dr. Liisa Tainio (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finnland)
Liz Whitelegg (Open University, UK)
Dr. Wendy Faulkner (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Dr. Minna Salminen Karlsson (University of Uppsala, Sweden)