Name: GENERA Network General Assembly 2025 and GENERA-COPA Kick-Off, Limerick
Start: 2025-09-04T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-06T19:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Thursday 4 September
- 09:30
  
  Arrival
- Welcome, introduction, presentation of University of Limerick
- Keynote: EDI in the University of Limerick and across Ireland
  
  Convener: Dr Marie Connolly (UL)
- 11:30
  
  Coffee and tea
- Updates from the network partners, good-practice exchange
  
  New Initiatives:
  - Tomas Brage: What works for Gender Balance? A project for the Faculty of Science in Lund.
  - Dalia Šatkovskienė: Improving the situation of Early Career Researchers in the Baltic States.
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- GENERA Network
  - Update of the GENERA MoU
  - GENERA activities and working groups
- 15:30
  
  Coffee and tea
- GENERA Network
  - Update of the GENERA MoU
  - GENERA activities and working groups
- Prepared discussion: Artificial Intelligence and EDI
- 19:00
  
  Dinner
Friday 5 September
- Kick-off of ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership GENERA-COPA: Introduction and planned activities
  - 1
    
    General Introduction
    
    Speaker: Thomas Berghoefer
  - 2
    
    Gender & Diversity perspective in the math-intensive fields of STEM (WP2)
    
    Speakers: Yossi Nir (Weizmann Institute), Deirdre Ní Eidhin (Uni Limerick)
  - 3
    
    Innovative Education (new approaches in inclusive teaching and learning, including universal design and STEAM education)
    
    Speakers: Tomas Brage (Lund Uni), Dalia Šatkovskienė (Vilnius Uni)
  - 4
    
    Innovative Mentoring, Sponsoring and Networking Approaches (WP4)
    
    Speakers: Maria Rosaria Masullo (INFN), Milica Pavkov Hrvojević (Uni Novi Sad), Sabina Pellizzoni (INFN), Elvira Toth (Uni Novi Sad)
  - 5
    
    Dissemination, Outreach and Target Group Coordination (WP5)
    
    Speakers: Thomas Berghoefer (DESY), Yolanda Lozano (Uni Oviedo)
- 11:00
  
  Coffee and tea
- Kick-off of ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership GENERA-COPA: Organisation and practical aspects
  - 6
    
    Practical aspects of running the project by the UL Erasmus+ Projects Manager
    
    Speaker: Ivanna D'Arcy (UL)
  - 7
    
    Project Management
    
    Speakers: Thomas Berghoefer, Maria Rosaria Masullo (INFN), Sabina Pellizzoni (INFN)
  - 8
    
    Project Calendar: Meetings & Events
    
    Speakers: Lisa Kamlade (DESY/DZA), Thomas Berghoefer (DESY)
  - 9
    
    Digital Tools: what is existing, what needs to be implemented?
    
    Speakers: Thomas Berghoefer (DESY), Tomas Brage (Lund Uni)
  - 10
    
    The Swiss project contribution funded by Movetia
    
    Speakers: Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg (SPS), Maya Widmer (SPS)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- Kick-off of ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership GENERA-COPA: Integration
  - 11
    
    How to integrate all GENERA Network partners into GENERA-COPA and align activities?
    
    Speakers: Tomas Brage (Lund Uni), Maria Rosaria Masullo (INFN)
- 15:00
  
  Coffee and tea
- Kick-off of ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership GENERA-COPA: Planning of the first months
Saturday 6 September
- 09:00
  
  Excursion