The document summarizes statistics from EU reports on gender in research and innovation. It finds that while women represent 40-60% of PhD graduates across EU countries, they remain underrepresented in engineering and computing. There is also a gender imbalance in academic careers, with fewer women achieving full professor roles. The document also describes the CARRE project, an EU-funded project on cardiorenal disease with efforts for gender balance among work package leaders, task leaders, and project participants.

1. Gender Balance in EU
and a Case Report of an EU Funded Project
Eleni Kaldoudi
kaldoudi@med.duth.gr
Associate Professor, DUTH, Greece

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SHE Figures - EU
Gender in Research and Innovation: statistics and indicators
 a series of reports published every 3 years by EU
 since 2003
 5 reports so far
 currently: SHE Figures 2015
 published in March 2016
 https://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/pdf/pub_gender_equality/s
he_figures_2015-leaflet-web.pdf (doi:10.2777/744106)

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gender balance in PhD graduates
EU has reached a gender balance in PhD graduates
 40-60% women of PhD graduates in all EU countries (2012)
 women PhD graduates numbers generally increase at a faster
rate than the number of men (2002-2012)
 despite improvements since 2004,
women remain under-represented in most narrow fields of
science and engineering

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% women PhD graduates in
computing
EU mean: 21%
max: 58% Luxemburg
min: 6% Hungary
EU SHE Figures 2015

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2012
% women PhD graduates in
engineering trade
EU mean: 23%
max: 42% Romania
min: 14% Czech Republic

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% women PhD graduates in
physical science
EU mean: 37%
max: 67% Cyprus
min: 22% Iceland
EU SHE Figures 2015

8. EU SHE Figures 2015
gender (in)balance in academic career
1st year PhD grads
Full Professors
79%
21%

9. gender (in)balance in academic career
in science and engineering
1st year PhD grads
Full professors
87%
(79% for all fields)
13%
(21% for all fields)
EU SHE Figures 2015

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research output
 28% women in board members (including leaders) in 2014
 31% of publications had a woman
corresponding author between 2011 and 2013
 the gender gap in the funding success rate
 decreasing at the EU-28 level
 success rate for men is still higher
than that for women in 70 % of countries
EU SHE Figures 2015

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proportion of women team leaders in
research funded projects
50%
28%
55%
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applicants beneficiaries
EU SHE Figures 2015

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CARRE
Cardiorenal
comorbidity management
via empowerment and
shared informed decision
FP7-ICT-2013-611140
consortium: 6 partners from 4 EU countries
coordinator: Eleni Kaldoudi (DUTH)
duration: Nov 2013 – Oct 2016
budget: 3,210,470€
http://carre-project.eu/
Democritus Univ. of Thrace
DUTH, GR
The Open
University, UK
Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK Vilnius Univ. Hospital, LT
Kaunas Univ., LT
Industrial Research Institute
for Automation & Measurements, PL

14. what? CARRE
EU FP7-ICT-2013-611140
3.2M, 2013-2016
DUTH, OU, BED, VULSK, KTU, PIAP
why? cardiorenal disease
chronic, common, dangerous,
expensive, with many causing
factors and complex progression
for the patient for the medical expert
how?
quantified self
medical evidence
personal
risk
prediction
personal
decision
support
Processor
Real time clock &
Calendar
Micro SD
Card
4GB
Electrocardiogram
I, II, III leads
TI front-end
ADS1294DRL
RA
LL
LA
BlueTooth
Power
LA
RA
LL
Body Composition /
Weight Scale
TI front-end
AFE4300
LCD
WiFi
CARRE
server
sensor developments
for the ICT expert
entry.carre-project.eu www.carre-project.euvisual.carre-project.eu

15. http://carre-project.eu
CARRE team in Luton project meeting, May 2015
women: 5 out 15  33%

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gender balance in CARRE
 WP leaders: 50% representation of both genders
 Task leaders: 55% women
 Team Leaders and GA: 1/3 women
 Key team members: 37% women
 Reviewers: 2/3 women

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dedicated task on gender balance
part of management activities, with the aim to:
 ensure a gender balanced representation across the project
 collect and report to EU data on women’s participation in all project
committees, working groups, research and dissemination activities
 devote a small part of each Project Meeting for discussing gender issues
 liaise with IFMBE WiMBE and other related committees

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Gender issues discussions in the project
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Alexandroupolils, Nov 2013:
Gender balance in EU research era: the 2009 SHE figures
Warsaw, Apr 2014:
Gender balance in EU FP7 projects – funded research work on gender balance
Vilnius, Sep 2014:
Gender balance in EU research era: the 2012 SHE figures
Luton, May 2015:
UN Women Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2015
Kaunas, Sep 2015:
Nature Specials: Women in Science

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www.slideshare.net/WiMBE_IFMBE

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twitter @WiMBE_IFMBE

21. acknowledgment
European Commission under the
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
7th Framework Programme
Contract No. FP7-ICT-2013-611140
CARRE: Personalized patient empowerment
and shared decision support
for cardiorenal disease and comorbidities
http://www.carre-project.eu/

22. Contact
Eleni Kaldoudi
CARRE Coordinator
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
Democritus University of Thrace
Alexandroupoli, Greece
Email: kaldoudi@med.duth.gr
http://iris.med.duth.gr/kaldoudi
Cite as
E. Kaldoudi, Gender Balance in EU
and a Case Report of an EU Funded
Project, Invited Talk, Special Session on
Women in Medical and Biological
Engineering, MEDICON 2016, Paphos,
Cyprus, 2 April 2016