GENERA Network General Assembly 2025 and GENERA-COPA Kick-Off, Limerick

4 Sept 2025, 09:30 → 6 Sept 2025, 19:00 Europe/Dublin

Annual meeting of the GENERA General Assembly and the Kick-Off event for the ERASMUS+ funded Cooperation Partnership GENERA-COPA

Poll for the excursion on Saturday

Travel and Accommodation

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