1st GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

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1st GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

• Oberpfaffenhofen
• 26 October 2005

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Agenda (1)

• 900 - 1015 Welcome Danielle Hoja
• Introduction Each participant
• 1015 - 1030 Coffee break
• 1030 - 1130 Short impulse lectures
• DLR - Audit Family and Job Danielle Hoja
• GMOSS Gender Action Plan Clementine Burnley
• Gender Dimension of Security Issues Irmgard
  Niemeyer
• JRC Women Science Network Nathalie Stephenne
• 1130 - 1300 Lunch

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Agenda (2)

• 1300 - 1400 Introduction to DLR
• 1400 - 1415 Coffee break
• 1415 - 1600 Discussion and Brain Storming
• ? Discussion of proposed gender action plan
• ? Definition of new work package and
  responsible person(s)
• ? Definition of objectives and deliverables
• ? Gender email list discussion forum on web
  site
• Objective a document with suggest actions and
  action items
• to be presented at the GMOSS review meeting

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Introduction of participants
GMOSS partner
Other Networks of Excellence
Danielle Hoja, DLR
Dörthe Gottschalk-Hofmaier, DLR
Konstanze König, DLR
Sigrun Matthes, DLR
Susan Giegerich, DLR
Heidelotte Craubner, DLR
Claudia Künzer, DLR
Thomas Kemper, DLR
Clementine Burnley, JRC
Nathalie Stephenne, JRC
Vinciane Lacroix
Karin Mertens
RMA
Michal Shimoni
Irmgard Niemeyer, TU Freiberg
Gracia Joyanes, EUSC
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GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

• Dr. Danielle Hoja, Engineer for CartographyPhD
  thesis in Oceanography and Remote Sensingsingle,
  no children
• German Aerospace Centre, Remote Sensing
  Technology Institutesupervision / employment
  since 1999
• Gender action
• Since 1999 Representative for Gender
  Mainstreaming (one women for whole DLR)
• Project Audit Occupation and Family since
  2002(project group with members of all DLR
  locations, me for OP)
• Pilot mentoring project for women only in 2000,
  since 2002 yearly programme that is open for
  both genders
• Participation on different meetings and
  presentations at GirlsDays and OpenDays, but no
  problems so far

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• Konstanze König, studied law at the University in
  Munich and specialized in Commercial Law.
• I started in DLR in November 2003 and currently
  Im working as the legal and financial
  Co-ordinator of the GMOSS-Project. Additional Im
  responsible for the Controlling of the Satellite
  Project TerraSAR-X.
• What means gender action for you?
• First of all equal opportunities for men and
  women
• Encourage girls to study technical or scientific
  subjects (e.g. Girls Day)
• Special support explicitly for women (e.g.
  Mentoring, Networks)
• Combination of work and family
• How is it handled at your project?
• Two main Measures are written in the GMOSS-GAP
• Avoiding all-male groupings
• Arranging baby-sitting facilities for Network
  meetings
• Reminder of the Reviewers in the 12-month report
• What are your personal experiences?
• Lots of activities (Conferences, Action Plans,
  etc.), but not much practical output

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• Susan Giegerich, responsible for GMOSS Staff
  Exchange Work Package
• German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of German
  Aerospace Center (DLR), - administrative
  assistant to the DFD director English technical
  translationsand editing for various DLR staff
  and offices
• Personal View of Gender Action
• For me it means using gentle but persistent
  personal pressure to overcome gender prejudices
  which get in the way of giving the most qualified
  person deserved responsibility.
• For my institution both at DFD and at
  DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen gender actionis not
  handled by anyone nobody feels particularly
  responsible. At DFD thematter is regarded as
  adequately taken care of by willingly hiring
  competentwomen when they are the best candidate
  for a position, and by allowing women to adjust
  their work schedules (in moderation) to
  accommodate family duties.
• Personal experience it is easy to achieve gender
  equality when things arekept at the theoretical
  level, when no more than lip service is required,
  andwhen only trivial adjustments are called for.
  As soon as specific, more major,creative
  adjustments and unusual solutions are required to
  accommodate forbiological inevitabilities, the
  willingness to make them tends to evaporate.

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• Claudia Künzer
• ? University of Trier, Applied Physical
  Geography, Majors RS and Soil Science
• ? One-year study grant WWU, USA Huxley College
  of Environmental Science,
• ? Diploma thesis, Prof. J. Hill ( Parc Naturel de
  la Haute Sure)
• ? Internships at 2 months BMBF, 2 months GAF, 2
  months UNEP, USA
• ? Student work 3 yrs introductory RS and GIS
  seminars, EU projects (e.g. DEMON)
• ? Since July 2001 Full time project scientist at
  DFD, support of project management, data
  analysis, supervising interns and diploma
  students, organizing field campaigns and
  workshops Coal Fire Project and Natural Hazard
  related projects
• ? February 2002 to February 2005 PhD at Vienna
  University of Technology
• ? March to July teaching RS at BNU, China,
  science exchange with IRSA, China
• Gender action aspects
• ? Support science careers of women, esp. with
  regard to leading positions, build up networks
  for mutual support and project acquisition
• ? No Experience with gender action issues, only
  girls day at DFD, perception issue

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• Thomas Kemper, born in Wickede, Germany (1969)
• Diploma in physical geography at the University
  of Trier (1997)
• PhD for quantification of heavy metals in soils
  using reflectance spectroscopy University of
  Trier (2003)
• 1998-2004 Institute for Environment and
  Sustainability of JRC Ispra, Italy, working on
  soil degradation and desertification
• Since October 2004 German Remote Sensing Data
  Center (DFD) of DLR in the Center for satellite
  based Crisis Information (ZKI)

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• Clementine Burnley
• Research into News based indicators for
  monitoring conflict situations, conflict early
  warning
• Practical Tools for Policy makers in area of
  conflict management
• Institute for the Protection and Security of the
  Citizen (SES Unit)
• Gender action aspects
• Equal chances for men and women to fulfil work
  and life ambitions
• Support for better gender balance
• Balanced peer group, largely male management.
  Personally supportive environment due to
  sensitised management. Insufficient practical
  support for realistic work-life balance.

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• Personal introduction
• Belgian, 2 kids
• Geographer
• Master in Development studies
• PhD in Geographical Sciences SALU model
  published by ARSOM (2002)
• Experiences at Image Consult IGEAT-ULB
• Postdoc at DG JRC, IPSC, SES, ISFEREA since
  1/02/2005
• Your institute
• Gender action aspects
• What means gender action for you? Open the eyes
  of men in everyday life
• How is it handled at your institute?
• What are your personal experiences?

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RMA GMOSS Researchers
GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

• Karin Mertens
• Formation MSc Geography, MSc in Computer
  Sciences
• Field of interest GIS, Crisis Management and C4I
  Systems
• Applications Security, Disaster Relief
  Operations
• Michal Shimoni
• Formation MSc Geology
• Field of interest Hyperspectral, SAR, InSAR,
  PolInSAR, Fusion SAR
• Applications Coastal zone, chemical pollution,
  tectonic, security.
• Vinciane Lacroix
• Formation MSc Physics, MSc Comp. ? Syst. Eng,
  Eng. Phd
• Field of interest Image processing, computer
  vision, Remote sensing, GIS
• And besides Art and photography
• Applications cartography, security, humanitarian
  demining

GMOSS GENDER ACTION MEETING, 26 OCTOBER 2005, DLR
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Signal and Image Centre
GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

• Part of Faculty of Applied Science of the Royal
  Military Academy of Belgium
• Research lab over several departments (mainly
  from the Electricity Dept.)
• Expertise in restoration and compression, pattern
  recognition, remote sensing, GIS, data fusion and
  robotics.
• Personnel 16 researchers, 6 women

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Gender Action
GMOSS Gender Action Meeting

• Gender Action is an operation aiming at
• Encouraging women to undertake management
  positions
• Promoting gender equality and womens rights in
  all sectors
• Inciting young generation to enter all working
  sectors especially the ones where women are in
  minority
• Addressing women well-being and women specific
  problems in today's society
• Well  
• The women in the SIC are managing the majority
  of the projects!
• The three top salaries of the SIC researchers are
  the ones of women!
• So, why are we here today?  
• To give an example of an institute that gives
  equal rights to women and appreciates their
  working skills

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• Personal introduction
• Irmgard Niemeyer, Geographer
• Assistant professor (in German junior professor)
  Photogrammetry/ Geomonitoring at Freiberg
  University of Mining and Technology (TU
  Bergakademie Freiberg)
• Main field of work interest Satellite and
  aerial imagery analysis for security
  applications, in particular for nuclear
  monitoring
• Your institute
• Institute of Mine-Surveying and Geodesy
  Engineering of geoinformation in the fields of
  geomatics, geoengineering, geomonitoring,
  geoscience, geoinformatics
• 2 professors (male), 1 assistant professor
  (female), 5 scientific staff members (4 male, 1
  female)
• Women at the University (2004) 44 diploma, 38
  PhD students, 19 doctoral degress, 14
  Habilitationen, 30 scientific staff members, 3
  professorships

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• Gender action aspects
• What means gender action for you?
• Terminating the mans quote
• How is it handled at your institute?
• No explicit handling of gender actions at our
  institute, no specific gender actions at the
  University
• What are your personal experiences?
• Individual support - despite or because of
  being female?

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• Personal introduction I am a Chemical Engineer,
  at present I am a phD researcher at the GMOSS
  project and I am involved in different WPs
  (20200, 20600 and 20700).
• Your institute EUSC (European Union Satellite
  Centre)
• Gender action aspects
• What means gender action for you? For me this
  action means that everyone could made a little
  contribution to increase the participation of the
  women in the science fields. And with all these
  actions and contributions, and step by step, we
  could improved the situation of the women in
  European research.
• How is it handled at your institute?
• In the EUSC, 20 of the permanent staff are
  women.
• The EUSC have from this year two new image
  analysts in the Operations Division (the first
  two women in this division).

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• The statistics are of 17 image analysts (two
  vacant posts) two of them are women so it is the
  11 of all the image analysts.
• In the EUSC one of the eight Heads of division is
  a woman and is the Head of Finance and Budget.
• The EUSC takes care to avoid any form of
  discrimination in its recruitment procedures and
  actively encourages applications from women.
• What are your personal experiences?
• My personal experiences as an engineer
  (originally a men's world) is that I never have
  any problems, and at the EUSC (where I am
  temporary staff) I have never noticed any
  different due to my gender.

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• Sigrun Matthes, PhD in Physics (Meteorology),
  Institute of Atmospheric Physics, PA, DLR. Global
  modelling of traffic emission impacts with a
  general circulation model (ECHAM).
• Network of Excellence (NoE) ECATS, Co-ordination,
  Environmental compatible air transport system,
  Start Jan 2005
• Gender action aspects
• Gender action should allow women and men to work
  together as equal partners, referring to contract
  issues, responsibilities, work.
• Knowledge of weak representation of women in our
  research field. Gender action committee (build
  but not really operational).
• Topics Equal opportunity employer, mobility
  allowance for female students, promote women in
  research, adopt best practice from performing
  partners, think about mentoring within the
  Network.
• I have family (two children). I did work part
  time before. My boss within DLR supported me.
  Have to attend numerous meeting within Europe,
  harmonise with family issues (like some of the
  men, e.g. no travel on Sundays).

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• Dörthe Gottschalk
• M.A. International Cultural Business Studies
• M.A. Human Resource Development M.A. Adult
  Education
• 2 children girl 6 years boy 3 years
• since 15th of March 2004 in DLR, working part
  time (27 hours weekly)
• Coordinator EU-project SatNEx 22 partners, 9
  european countries,
• duration 2 years, grant for integration
  4.400.000
• SatNEx II starts 1st Jan 2006, 3 years, 7 mio,
  slightly changed consortium
• Gender issues are stimulating the participation
  of women in science
• and technological development
• SatNEx involves women in Management, JPA
  (Prof.PhD), special trainings
• and exchanges between partners, award
  content production network female
• participation in SB and AB
• What are your personal experiences?

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• Adelheid Craubner
• Diploma in Mathematics in 1971 at Technical
  University of Munich
• Working at DLR since 1972
• Main Field of Work Visualisation and Animation
  of Remote Sensing Data
• Responsible for Earth Observing Experiment in
  DLR-Schoollab
• Teaching Girls Workshops in the DLR-Schoollab
• Since 1982 participating in Gender Action Groups
  for Female Computer Scientists
• Private Life married, one son (31, Computer
  Specialist)
• Gender action aspects
• I believe that women should not only get same
  payment but also have the same chances as men to
  get interesting work projects and decide about
  how to act in these projects. The results of
  female work should be honored and appreciated as
  well as those of males. Men should get better
  chances to work part time and to make a family
  pause without getting out of the career track.
• My experiences at DLR payment seams to be
  equal, but chances for women for a career and
  influence on how to act in a project are reduced
  compared to those of men with equal
  qualification.

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• Where are the Girls and Women in Science and
  Engineering?
• Conference in Berlin, Oct. 20. -21., 2005
  (participation of A. Craubner and K. König)
• In the future industry and public sector will
  need a high number of skilled engineers.
• Women can bring different views, diversify the
  mono cultural engineering workforce
• and broaden the impact engineering has on
  society.
• Workshop 1 Education in Physics for young Girls
• Lessons in physics should start at very young
  age, adapted to the childs ability.
• The social context of a certain technology is
  very important to girls and women,
• it must be included in tuition.
• Girls need encouragement to try new role models
  and they like learning by doing.
• Dropping of lessons in physics should be made
  impossible to them.
• If math and physics is taught in such a way that
  girls like it, boys will also do.