The goal of this project is to promote the inclusion of the gender dimension in the content of the R&D&i projects undertaken in the Navarre R&D&i system. To achieve that, ADItech organises working meetings that representative from all the SINAI centres participate in, as well as pubic conferences with speakers who are experts in the field.
In collaboration with the R&D&i service of the government of Navarre, ADItech organised the workshop to keep contributing to the scientific excellence of SINAI and, specifically, to industrial doctorate students. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, a recognised researcher and expert in gender dimension in research content, gave the online workshop.
ADItech and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) held this workshop with Navarrabiomed, a SINAI agent committed to excellence, with the goal of promoting scientific excellence.
As a national leader in the field, the BSC presented examples and best-practices. There was also a conceptual introduction to the topic, the requirements for drafting successful Horizon Europe proposals were discussed, and health and artificial intelligence projects that included gender dimension were presented.
You can access the conferences with the international workshops organised by ADItech in collaboration with UPNA and the INAI where international experts in various disciplines discussed the meaning of including the gender dimension in research to contribute to scientific excellence and generate results that benefit society as a whole.
You can access the master class by Professor Londa Schiebinger where she covers the basic concepts for tackling any scientific discipline with excellence and incorporating the gender dimension in the entire research process.
Londa Schiebinger is an advisor to the European Commission and an international leader in the gender dimension in science and technology. She has a PhD from Harvard University, she is a Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
You can access this conference by neuroscientist Gina Rippon where she shows the stereotypes we are bombarded with from birth and how that social conditioning moulds our sense of identity and even gives form to our brains, because a sexist world produces sexist brains.
Gina Rippon is a pioneering researcher in the field of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Center at the University of Aston, Birmingham (United Kingdom). She is the author of the book, “The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain”.
This help guide created by ADItech and based on the SAGER guidelines goes through every aspect of the thought process research staff at the Navarre R&D&i System (SINAI) should engage in to incorporate an important indicator of excellence, the gender dimension, in the collaborative projects coordinated by ADItech and subsidised by the government of Navarre. The guidelines may likewise be used for any kind of R&D&i or scientific publication project.
Download the guide here to see how the gender dimension is included in collaborative R&D&i projects in Navarre.
This is an issue that in some pioneering countries like Norway, Sweden or Canada has been addressed for decades and where there are already initiatives for improving the quality of science by promoting the integration of the gender dimension in both the design of research and the analysis of results. In our country, the issue has only been raised in the last few years. What about Navarre?
In the preamble of our regional science and technology law, which was passed in 2018 and is framed by domestic and European strategic lines, it states, “The gender perspective shall be included as a transversal category in scientific and technical research. And it should be taken into consideration in all aspects of the process to ensure effective equality between women and men.”
You may think there are R&D&i fields where this issue is not relevant. However, we believe that it is always relevant to raise the issue to achieve scientific excellence, even if the response may or may not lead to research with the gender dimension. And we ask the Navarre R&D&i system (SINAI) to take it seriously, because science and technology is not a pristine bastion immune to gender bias.
For example, the majority of basic research with animal models is centred on males and excludes females due to bias. And the results for the males are generalised for females without justification. Even some illnesses that occur more frequently in females are most often studied in male animals.
Another bias can be found in car crash tests, which are done with standardised dummies based on the measurements, weight and muscle mass of an average man.
Gender bias can also be found in artificial intelligence where the algorithms of the Apple, Google and Amazon virtual assistants reinforce gender stereotypes even more, according to a recent UN report.
But, what is happening in Navarre? If at SINAI we deal with the issue as a whole, we will still be in time to be at the forefront of an innovatively essential matter like this one.
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