INTEGRATING GENDER DIMENSION AND EQUALITY OBJECTIVES INTO ENERGY AND DEEP TECH FIELDS FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Deep tech and sustainable energy are crucial for the future as they drive innovations that address global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity, and societal wellbeing. Deep tech, with its focus on advanced technologies like AI, communication technologies, photonics and optoelectronics, quantum computing and biotechnology, has the potential to revolutionize industries, enhance efficiency, and create new economic opportunities. Tackling the energy crisis and making effective transition to low-carbon economies are among the most essential challenges societies face today. The aim of this conference is to show how gender equality objectives can be integrated into the socio-technical pathways to inclusive and sustainable future.
Women are significantly underrepresented in both the deep tech and energy transition fields as researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, decision makers, and leaders. The average share of women in the R&I workforce in energy sector companies in the EU27 is 22% (CINEA 2024). Only 14% of founders in deep tech startups are women. An important current policy driver for gender equality in the EU is the commitment in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 for mainstreaming gender into the budgets of all funded programmes.
The conference aims to examine gender dimension in both green and digital transitions, to shape interactions between technology and society, and new understanding how to integrate gender equality as a significant objective of technologically focused interventions. The event targets science policy and decision makers and advisers, domain experts, researchers and innovators, promoting knowledge for social progress.
he conference is jointly organized by the two EU funded HorizonEurope projects gEneSys (Transforming Gendered Interrelations of Power and Inequalities in Transition Pathways to Sustainable Energy Systems) and NET4Air (Advanced nanotechnology-based devices and smart systems integration in environmental monitoring).
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