Direção de Projectos (DP)

8.30 – 9.00 | Registration

9.00 – 9.15 | Opening address by Commissioner (tbc)

9.15 – 9.25 | Introduction by Maria Leptin, ERC President

9.25 – 10.20 | Keynote: The Female Turn: How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females

• Malin Ah-King, Stockholm University, SE

10.20 – 10.40 | Coffee break

10.40 – 12.10 | Session I: Diversity in Health Research

Moderator

• Geneviève Almouzni, ERC Scientific Council Member, Chair of the Gender & Diversity Issues Working Group

Rapporteur

• Philippe Cupers, Head of Unit Life Sciences, ERCEA

Speakers

• Social inequalities in health: an intersectional approach, Pierre-Yves Geoffard, CNRS, FR
• Molecular insights in “real-life” immunology, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Leiden University, NL
• Hypertension in African migrants: Lessons learnt from the RODAM study, Charles Agyemang, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, NL
• ECAP: Genetic/epigenetic basis of ethnic differences in cancer predisposition, Gian-Paolo Dotto, University of Lausanne (UNIL) ,CH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), CH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, US

12.10 – 13.10 | Lunch

13.10 – 14.40 | Session 2: Diversity from a Technological and Legal Perspective

Moderator

• Tom Henzinger, Member of the ERC Scientific Council

Rapporteur

• Alejandro Martin Hobdey, Head of Unit Physical Sciences and Engineering, ERCEA

Speakers

• Diversity in the Machine Learning Age, Louise Amoore, Durham University, UK
• Improving Decision Making with Machine Learning, Fairly, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute, DE
• Reflections on Doing Disability Inclusive Research – in the Context of the Accessibility of Streets, Anna Lawson, University of Leeds, UK
• Diversity in Body Representation for Neuroprosthetics, Giovanni Di Pino, University of Rome, IT

14.40 – 15.10 | Coffee break

15.10 – 16.40 | Session 3: Perceptions of Diversity

Moderator

• Harriet Bulkeley, Member of the ERC Scientific Council

Rapporteur

• Lino Paula, Head of Unit Social Sciences and Humanities, ERCEA

Speakers

• Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: older LGBTI+ lived experiences in Southern Europe, Ana Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, PT
• NEUROEPIGENETHICS: investigating neurodiversity in a neuromixed research group, Kristien Hens, University of Antwerp, BE
• CEC – The Cognitive-Ecological Challenge of Diversity, Hans Alves, University of Bochum, DE
• Coexistence and conflict in the age of complexity, Eeva Puumala, Tampere University, FI

16.40 – 17.45 | Session 4: Roundtable: The Importance of Diversity in Research

Moderator

• Angela Liberatore, Head of Scientific Management Department, ERCEA

Speakers

• Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
• Gian-Paolo Dotto, University of Lausanne (UNIL), CH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), CH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, US
• Emilia Gómez, Joint Research Centre (European Commission) & Pompeu Fabra University, ES
• Anna Lawson, University of Leeds, UK
• Marc Lemaitre, Director-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission
• Ana Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, PT

17.45 – 18.00 | Concluding remarks

• Commissioner (tbc)
• Geneviève Almouzni, ERC Scientific Council Member, Chair of the Gender & Diversity Issues Working Group

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