Moving from Gender Barriers in Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Policy Actions: The Potential of Living Labs
TIME
14:00 – 15:15
TRACKS
TRACK 2: Living Labs for Policies, Governance, collaboration and innovation ecosystems
TRACK 3: LLs for Inclusive Soci(et)al Engagement
ORGANISER
Barbara De Micheli & Silvia Sansonetti (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini), Alberto Cerezo (ENoLL)
Target Audience
All stakeholders from the quadruple helix willing to advance gender innovation through the Living Lab practice
Type of Session
Topic Debate
DESCRIPTION
Living Labs are collaborative environments designed to amplify societal voices, promote inclusive participation, and bridge community gaps. They must be deliberately inclusive, reflecting societal diversity through gender and intersectionality perspectives to maximize their impact. By integrating these perspectives, Living Labs break down innovation barriers, ensuring equal opportunities for all to lead projects and driving systemic change towards equitable solutions for societal challenges.
Global discussions over the past 15 years have underscored the need to integrate a gender perspective into research and innovation for both equity and enhanced business and technological outcomes. Barriers have been extensively researched and identified, being now the time to address specific policy actions to overcome them.
This session will spur the debate on policy recommendations addressed to stakeholders of the quadruple helix, by leveraging the potential of Living Labs.
Agenda
- Welcome, setting the scene, Barbara De Micheli, Head of Social Justice, Giacomo Brodolini Foundation (10 min)
- Notes on Gendered Innovation from stakeholders of the Quadruple Helix (20 min)
- Marta Martorell Camps, Director of Digital Social Technologies Research, i2CAT Foundation
- Andra Tanase, Head of Strategy, Transilvania IT Cluster
- Flavia Marzano, expert, inclusive innovation in technology and entrepreneurship and policymaking
- Silvia Sironi, Ecosystem Lead at the United Nations World Food Program Innovation Accelerator
- Discussion: Moving from Gender Barriers in Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Policy Actions: The Potential of Living Labs (30 min)
- Questions & Answers (10 min)
- Conclusions, Barbara de Micheli (5 min)
SPEAKER BIOS
Barbara De Micheli
Head of Social Justice Area Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
Barbara De Micheli
Head of Social Justice Area Fondazione Giacomo BrodoliniBarbara De Micheli has over 25 years of experience on social policies, fundamental rights, diversity inclusion and gender equality. Since 2019, she is the Head of the Social Justice Area in Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini. She has been focusing on gender and innovation and has coordinated complex multiannual and transnational projects concerning the analysis, assessment and elaboration of the Gender Equality Plans, both grounding on qualitative and quantitative research methods, she has recently co-authored the chapter "Promoting Structural Change in Small Organisations: Strengths, Resistance and the Quest for Excellence" in the edited book “Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations – A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality†for the project TARGET funded by DG Research Programme H2020. She is particularly focused also on diversity and inclusion issues as the designer and coordinator of the Master in ‘Gender Equality and Diversity Management’. She holds a PHD on organizational innovation and she is member since 2012 of the Board of Ingenere.it, an Italian web magazine contributing to the debate on gender equality in the country .
Marta Martorell Camps
Director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area, i2CAT Foundation
Marta Martorell Camps
Director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area, i2CAT FoundationMarta Martorell Camps is a leading figure in participatory process innovation at local, regional and national levels. She is the director of the Digital Social Technologies Research Area of the i2CAT Foundation, which works on research lines such as the impact of digital technologies on society, the implementation of facilitation techniques and methodologies for the adoption of new technologies in line with healthy lifestyles and cultural values, or the design and implementation of innovation policies and strategies for social and digital transformation.
Andra Tanase
Head of Strategy and Green & Digital and Future Competences Programme Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster
Andra Tanase
Head of Strategy and Green & Digital and Future Competences Programme Manager at Transilvania IT ClusterCurrently serving as Head of Strategy and Green & Digital and Future Competences Programme Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster as well as Expert, Trainer and Strategist on digital transformation and education, Andra works on strategic programme design, capacity building, policymaking and organisational development from mainly the perspective of sustainability, collaborative leadership and digital innovation. She is involved in training and competence - building activities and engagement with other civic and educational actors and is eager to engage with professionals who dare with vision, challenge with passion and think critically in order to inspire and be inspired, to create impact and achieve sustainable growth at personal, community and world-wide levels.
Elena-Manuela Bîrsănuc
Associate Lecturer at BabeÈ™-Bolyai University
Elena-Manuela Bîrsănuc
Associate Lecturer at Babeș-Bolyai UniversityElena-Manuela Bîrsănuc, PhD, is a geographer specializing in feminist and gender studies. Her research focus has been on finding the connection between gender prejudice and the local level of development. Also, she has been connected with the entrepreneurial field through clusters within the North-West Region of Romania. She has worked on national and international projects addressing energy poverty, gender equality, and socio-economic issues.
Silvia Sironi
Ecosystem Lead United Nations World Food Program Innovation Accelerator
Silvia Sironi
Ecosystem Lead United Nations World Food Program Innovation AcceleratorSilvia Sironi is Ecosystem Lead at the United Nations World Food Program Innovation Accelerator, where she serves as the gender focal point, supporting innovators working towards gender equality. She also founded "She is a Scientist," advocating for gender equality in science and innovation. Silvia holds a PhD in Human Biology from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.