International Day of Women and Girls in Science: Attend the round table on "Gender, grant applications and success rates" on February 14

To mark the eighth International Day of Women and Girls in Science (on February 11), and in line with other initiatives and events organized at the Institut Pasteur to reflect its commitment to equality in the workplace, an event coordinated by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group and the Grants Office is coming up soon on campus. Other events on the topic of gender equality will also be taking place this year.

Research and advances in science depend in part on the need for funding. But it seems that women scientists receive less funding and apply less often than their male peers.* In light of this observation, the teams from the Grants Office (GO) and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group are running an event on Tuesday February 14, at 11am, in the Jules Bordet room (Metchnikoff building) and via Teams. The aim of the event, entitled "Gender, grant applications and success rates" and organized to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, is to encourage women at all stages of their career to apply for funding.

Registration is now open

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We encourage you to come along to this round table, which will explore questions related to gender and success in grant applications. Despoina Mademtzoglou, Sophie Dauzet and Ksenia Bagrintseva (a grant writing expert) from the GO will present the number of grant applications and the success rate by gender at the Institut Pasteur, together with some suggestions for how to boost the success rate for women. Two experienced PIs who have been successful in several grant applications, Caroline Demangel and Tamara Giles-Vernick, and a scientist starting out on the grant application journey, Hanna Julienne, will then discuss their experiences.

The aim of the event is to show that people with different profiles can respond to calls for proposals (postdoctoral fellows, research engineers, experienced scientists, etc.) and that it is important to have a range of perspectives in science. The organizers of the round table hope that it will provide participants with the keys to successful grant applications and offer an opportunity to discuss strategies to decrease gender bias during the grant review process.

We hope to see lots of you there – and don't forget to keep an eye on the Grant Finder.

*Source: This point is made by the United Nations ("Did you know" section) and has been verified in other contexts that will be discussed during the roundtable