Become a Gender and Inclusion Ambassador in Your Living Lab
TIME
09:00 – 10:30
TRACKS
TRACK 3: Living Labs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
ORGANISER
GAC Group – GILL project; Géraldine Quetin – Cheffe de projets / Project Manager
DESCRIPTION
Join us for an engaging and dynamic workshop designed to empower Living Lab staff with essential gender awareness and inclusion tools. As a participant, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in a unique, interactive serious game that highlights gender and societal inclusion challenges. Utilize our GILL Hub tools through role-play and practical exercises to gain a deeper understanding of inclusion practices.
Develop a heightened awareness of gender and societal inclusion, learn actionable tools and strategies to implement in your Living Lab, and equip yourself to lead positive change and promote a gender-responsive innovation landscape.
Seize this unique opportunity to enhance your skills, meet inspiring individuals, and make a meaningful impact.
Agenda
- GILL Project Presentation (5 min)
An introduction to the GILL project, outlining its goals and the tools available to foster gender awareness and societal inclusion.
- Role Play Activity (tot of 75 min)
- Step 1: Group Formation and Context Selection (5 min)
Gather into 3 or 4 small groups. Each group will select a Living Lab context and objective, such as increasing women’s participation in entrepreneurship.
- Step 2: Platform Exploration (20 min)
Navigate through the platform, utilising the provided tools and services to address your chosen context and objective.
- Step 3: Drafting Insights (10 min)
Prepare a brief note on the most useful content and tools for addressing your specific topic or context.
- Step 4: Spinning Wheel (10 min)
Use the spinning wheel to randomly determine which external stakeholder (e.g., HR manager, BU director, CTO) you will present your insights to, expanding your perspective and preparing to defend your position.
- Step 5: Stakeholder Presentation (30 min)
Present your findings and insights in front of the assigned stakeholders, showcasing how the tools can effectively address gender and societal inclusion issues.
- Wrap-Up and Conclusion (10 min)
A final discussion to summarize key takeaways, share experiences, and conclude the workshop.
SPEAKER BIOS
Andree Woodcock
Chair Educational Ergonomics and Design
Andree Woodcock
Chair Educational Ergonomics and DesignI am a longstanding member of Coventry City lab, and a member of ENOLL executive committee and the Land C subcommittee. I have worked at Coventry as a researcher since 1999 and am Chair of Educational Ergonomics and Design, Driving my research is the belief that applying systems-thinking and user-centred design principles drawn from ergonomics and design research can be applied to and solve many of the wicked problems we face today. In this, the key for greater inclusion and recognition of the needs and contributions of all sectors of society is paramount. This requires the development and application of inclusive methods to understand these needs, empathy fed by an in depth understanding of the lived experience and a willingness on the part of stakeholders (such as designers, municipalities and agencies) to use this information in the application and development of inclusive approaches, systems and products. Most of my research has been located within design departments, looking at applying systemic design research to wicked problems in health, education, mobility, sustainability and gender. I have led successful national and EU funded projects in excess of £15m, all featuring ‘hard to reach groups’ most recently within the field of transport. The proposal builds on the following projects. H2020 TInnGO (2019-2021): to develop a Pan European Transport innovation Gender Observatory and 10 hubs across Europe creating a step change in gender and mobility across transport through use of gender action plans and gender mainstreaming. (approx. 3 million euros): role PI WEMOBILE (2018-2019) project to understand the lived experiences of women in Malaysia and Pakistan and the effects of gender transport poverty and everyday harassment (approx. £45 K): role PI H2020 CIVITAS SUITS 2016-2020): capacity building to develop sustainable mobility projects in small to medium local authorities (approx. 4 million euros) : role PI Empathic design and elders: Frank Jackson Foundation (2016-2019) looking at ways to encourage transport design and engineering students to be empathic in consideration of older transport users. (approx. 30K). Role PI FP7 METPEX: (2013-2016) project to develop pan- European tool to measure the quality of multimodal, end to end traveller journey (approx. 3 million euros) P1: role PI Elder’s mobility needs University pump priming (2016) to deliver co-design workshops in UK and USA. PI: £10K Evaluation of early adopters experiences of the use of e-vehicle: EPSRC, n/d A multistakeholder evaluation of a full scale, working electric bus: Consultancy: 2010 Developing intelligent zero-emissions vehicles, Science city project with Birmingham, RDM and Microcab, 2009 Investigating the safety and security of women drivers and their passengers DETR (2001): PI £100K
Laura Varisco
Consultant in Regional economic development, European cooperation and Innovation at GAC Group
Laura Varisco
Consultant in Regional economic development, European cooperation and Innovation at GAC GroupLaura Varisco is a Consultant in Regional Economic Development, European cooperation and Innovation at GAC Group. Over the past years she has been working with local public authorities to develop and implement cross-border cooperation projects and strategies on different topics, from territorial attractiveness to environmental protection and sustainable mobility. She is Thematic Expert in Research and Innovation for the Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform, in charge of delivering targeted policy learning services to policy makers across Europe. Under GILL Project she supports the Pan-European collaboration hub. Email - lvarisco@group-gac.com
Sofiane Bari
Innovation Consultant at GAC Group
Sofiane Bari
Innovation Consultant at GAC GroupSofiane is an Innovation Consultant at GAC Group. He supports the management of different tasks related to impact maximisation of EU projects and cooperation enhancement. He holds a master’s degree in business management and public Affairs.
Gabriella Quaranta
Senior Project Manager at ENoLL
Gabriella Quaranta
Senior Project Manager at ENoLLGraduated in Aerospace Engineering at University of Rome “Sapienzaâ€, has been working as project manager in EC funded projects for the last ten years and she has been very active in the EU R&I Framework Programmes being also an Italian National Contact Point (NCP) in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe following mobility and security areas in particular. She has been personally coordinating EC funded projects, dealing of course with project management but also with dissemination & communication activities and with stakeholder engagement, acquiring a deep knowledge in these matters as well; furthermore, she has been a trainer, delivering dozens of trainings on Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe related issues. She happily joined ENoLL as senior project manager and network builder, after a long period in APRE, the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research, and two years in EMSO ERIC, the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory.
Arianna Marucci
Junior Project Manager at ENoLL
Arianna Marucci
Junior Project Manager at ENoLLArianna is a junior project manager at ENoLL. Fascinated by the intersection of new technologies and cultural diversity, she holds a Master’s degree in International Relations in the Digital Era.  At ENoLL, Arianna contributes to the Projects Unit and the Proposals Writing team, where she supports the management and implementation of various projects, as well as the preparation of proposals for competitive bids. In her role, Arianna is also part of the coordination team for the GILL (Gendered Innovation Living Labs) project, where she is gaining valuable experience in the coordination of EU projects.