PARIDEE Workshop,...

PARIDEE Workshop, University of Salento 25 September 2015 Sala Rettorato, Lecce, Italy. Gianna Avellis was invited by Prof. Sara Invitto, Università del Salento, to participate to the workshop PARIDEE at Salento, Lecce. She accepted the invitation and presented Role Models for women scientists and enterpreneurs in ICT Living Labd 2.0, in particular the ebook of MCAA women scientists. The presentation started by illustrating the Living Lab approach, where the role of end users are central in the design of a solution to a requirement of a given territory. In particular, the Living Lab ICT and E-Learning in which the ebooks on Role Models were developed by ITWIIN, MCAA and MCFA was introduced. It addresses the requirement for the youngest and young women who are disadvantaged categories to initiate training in English, Informatics and Enterprise. To this end, they developed a web-based environment where the community of young people and young women can meet and learn English, Informatics and have an ebook on enterprise’s women who have done a spin-off or a start-up in their career. This is the ebook developed for the Living Lab by ITWIIN (ITalian Women Innovators and Inventors Network) who selected 10 enterprise’s women from the ITWIINNERS, the winners of the ITWIIN annual award. Besides this ebook, there were two other ebook in this Living Lab concerning more the researchers in Europe and outside Europe by Marie Curie Alumni Association and Marie Curie Fellows association: they give to the young women in the living lab the examples and stories of mobility in Europe and outside and acted as Role Models for young woman who wanted to start a scientific career. In these ebooks, especially the one of MCAA, we bring examples of stories of women that are not famous such as the same Marie Curie or Marghetita Hacks and Rita Levi Montacini, who can seem not reachable role models for young scientists, but we bring into play the stories of "normal " successful researchers who express their passion to science and have to face concrete probems in their mobiity experience (child care , dual career, brain drain, pension schemes, flat arrangements, relationships with the host and home institution....). The presentation ended with some results from the mobility stories in bad news (brain drain of young women scientists, changing in host and home institutions, ...) and good news (be open minded toward societal challenges, be flexible and organised, feel a revolution inside you after a mobility experience, ....) and some hints and conclusions concerning policies on mobility (exploit and take into account the mobility experiences when judging for a position at the university, reach a good balance between life/work, dual career, reintegration mechanisms...).