Rita Bencivenga

University of Genoa | UNIGE · Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale (DCCI)

This paper presents the project “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for Research Enhancement in Bosnia Herzegovina” (EDIRE) within the framework of the European Union (EU) policy on gender equality and diversity in universities and the Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (WIDERA) Programme and Actions. The authors wi...

The problem of gender imbalance in the high-tech sector, particularly in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), has been extensively analysed in the literature. At international and national levels, its causes and consequences have been analysed in detail from various perspectives. Numerous programmes and initiatives implement...

This article explores the use of participatory approaches to promote gender equality in academia, focusing on initiatives implemented in two universities. First, we look at the experience of the University of Deusto (Spain) in developing a handbook to integrate a gender perspective into teaching and research practises through an equality, diversity...

Abstract: This article explores the use of participatory approaches to promote gender equality in academia, focusing on initiatives implemented in two universities. First, we look at the experience of the University of Deusto (Spain) in developing a handbook to integrate a gender perspective into teaching and research practises through an equality,...

Many EU-funded basic research projects in STEM fields do not yet take a cross-cutting approach to gender and diversity. We have included an experimental action in Area 4, "Integrating the gender dimension in research and teaching", of a Gender Equality Plan (GEP). The relevance of this initiative is related to its easy replicability, as C&D plans i...

The Gender Equality Plan (GEP) represents an eligibility requirement in Horizon Europe from January 2022. Universities and other public institutions publish the GEP on their websites, as required by the European Union, and many measures are already being implemented. Although Italian universities and public institutions have had Positive Action Pla...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted higher education, imposing the need to add new strategies to academic educational models to facilitate young people’s transitions from education to work. Among the new challenges, the research study focuses on the importance of valuing and incrementing inclusion, raising awareness of equality, diversity, and incl...

Un Piano di Comunicazione permette di dare visibilità al Gender Equality Plan per promuoverne al meglio gli obiettivi. Il report contiene suggerimenti e ipotesi di lavoro.

The paper introduces the MILIEU H2020 Project ‘Women, disability and inclusion – scientific excellence in Bulgaria’ – a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) project funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme, ‘Spreading excellence and widening participation – Twinning’ Call. The project aims to unlock, foster and sustain high-quality research at the...

Research on the implementation of positive actions and gender mainstreaming in academia reveals a fragmented patchwork in adopting strategies and policies. Even when national policies guarantee uniformity in adopting Gender Equality Plans (GEPs), this does not always lead to substantial changes in research and innovation teams and management struct...

Since its fifth framework programme (1998–2002), the European Union has promoted gender equality and equal opportunities in the higher education sector and science and technological development. In its current framework programme for research and innovation, Horizon Europe (2021–2027), the EU requires scientists to systematically integrate the conc...

The European Union has been encouraging a move towards gender equality since its 6th framework programme. In its 8th programme, H2020, the EU points scientists to documentation outlining the concepts of sex/gender, inviting those applying for funding to state how and why their research will impact gender and how the project will foster gender equal...

Ingegneria come percorso di studio e di carriera per le studentesse: fattori che ne determinano la scelta / Engineering as a study and career path for female students: factors that determine their choice

Con l’arrivo del nuovo Programma di Finanziamento per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione Hori-zon Europe (2021-2027), alla fine del mese di Febbraio 2021 l’Unione Europea ha pub-blicato il Work Programme dell’European Research Council (ERC), che contiene le in-formazioni tecniche per chi intende presentare candidature e richieste di finanziamenti. In poche...

With the arrival of Horizon Europe, the 9th framework programme for research and innovation (2021-2027), in late February 2021 the European Union published the European Research Council (ERC) Work Programme containing detailed information for potential applicants and funding requests. In a matter of hours, there was a flurry of informal contacts in...

The article summarises the scientific debate on the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies adopted by the European Union to promote gender equality in academia and the adoption of a gender perspective in research. The article focuses on introducing gender mainstreaming, promoting gender equality and structural change in research performing and...

Gender equality has been actively promoted in EU academic institutions by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme through the implementation of gender equality plans (GEP). GEP formulation and implementation was strongly influenced by involvement in EU projects in Irish as well as Italian higher education institutio...

The theoretical contribution explores the role of nondisabled researchers in disability research and points to the possibilities this collaboration could offer to advance the research in gender studies and in disability studies. The chapter starts with an overview of the conceptual path leading from the social model of disability to feminist disabi...

Gender/Sexuality in the Workplace: IT Companies and Higher Education. The presentation describes the FIAGES project results.

FIAGES projects results. Gender in Academia and in IT companies. EU strategies to reach gender equality and diversity.

New Institutionalism (NI) explores how institutional rules, norms, and cultures constrain the choices and actions of individuals when they are part of an institution. Feminist Institutionalism (FI) applies NI through a gendered lens, starting from the premise that institutions are highly gendered, and considers how they constrain and/or enable gend...

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is a very diverse arena of practice, operating across the public, private and non-profit sectors. Informal RPL processes addressing formal, non-formal and informal learning and skills are seldom planned and performed. When the persons involved are migrants, their specific knowledge and experience is recognised to...

BENCIVENGA, R. (2019). The gender dimension in assessing migrant women’s non-formal and informal learning and skills. In M. Endepohls-Ulpe & J. Joanna Ostrouch-Kamińska (Eds.), Gender – Diversity – Intersectionality. (New) Perspectives in Adult Education (pp. 87-104). Münster: Waxmann Verlag GmbH.

O'Neil, M., Bencivenga, R., Gülrü Göker, Z., & Uçan Çabukçu, S. (2018). Perspectives on gender studies in Turkey. AG About Gender - International Journal of Gender Studies, 7(14), 208-226. doi:https://doi.org/10.15167/2279-5057/AG2018.7.14.1019

The empirical study described in this chapter used grounded theory methodology to investigate adults’ accounts of their interest in and use of MOOC. Seventy-two Italian respondents were interviewed, all of them aged over 50. It was found that the participants shared a common eagerness to use MOOC, but only as one of several means of enhancing their...

Gender (and not only) stereotypes and (self) segregation mechanisms in training and professional choices: the case of Gender Equality Plans in European universities. Key words: Gender mainstreaming, intersectionality, Gender Equality Plans, Horizon 2020.

This research contributes to critical literature in the field of recognition of prior learning and skills. It frames the idea of the initial assessment as a tool for selecting and orienteering migrants in their further learning and/or training paths, considering the influence of the training background and personal beliefs of the personnel, who des...

The article is available at http://www.rela.ep.liu.se/issues/10.3384_rela.2000-7426.201681/04/rela_9117.pdf ABSTRACT The study described in this article used grounded theory methodology to investigate adults’ accounts of their relationships with others when using information and communication technologies (ICT). Ten women and ten men were interview...

The presentation discusses two topics 1) Which relation between gender studies and disability studies? 2) Non-disabled researchers in disability studies

Bencivenga, R. (2017, March). From H2020 to the 9th Framework Programme: looking for gender. SAGE – International workshop, University of Brescia. Brescia, Italy. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36443.16162

Referring to the EU call for proposals under H2020, the paper analyses the current state of the art and proposes strategies that could significantly improve the quality of gender-related proposals within a short period of time. These strategies could directly accelerate the process of gender equality both in the research process and in the research...

In some European regions, elder care in homes and in residential care units is carried out mainly by migrant paid caregivers, for the most part migrants within Europe. This research sought to inquire into the learning needs of these professional migrant caregivers as they perceive them, as a step towards addressing contextual strains on elder healt...

L’usage et l’image des ordinateurs, comme toute technologie, ne sont pas seulement liés au développement technologique, mais aussi à un « cercle vertueux (ou vicieux ?) qui s’est établi entre la technologie, la société, l’histoire et les idées » (Bennato, 2001). Cette construction de l’usage et de l’image de l’ordinateur, que nous pouvons définir c...

Presentaziione del supplemento della rivista About Gender.

New alliances between gender, technology and adult education studies could help in reducing risks of sexism and ageism. This review begins by outlin-ing Gender and Technology studies, their concepts and evolution. Four main phases are shortly described: the study of women in technology, that of gender and technology, the understanding of a reciproc...

In this fourth round table, four researchers answer questions to assess the state of the art and future perspectives in gender studies related to three countries: Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The researchers have chosen to debate different perspectives that will raise readers' interest, no matter their status be it teacher or learner. The distinctiv...

Current perspectives on gender studies in thirteen countries are debated in the four Round Tables re-printed in this special supplement of the Journal About Gender (AG).

this third round table, four researchers answer questions to assess the state of the art and future perspectives of gender studies in three German speaking contexts: Austria, Germany and German speaking Switzerland. As for the previous round table (which involved French speaking contexts) the main criterion for the selection of these three regions...

Lorsque, au début des années 1980, les premiers ordinateurs firent leur apparition dans les bureaux des entreprises et chez les particuliers, toute une génération de personnes a appris à les utiliser en auto-apprentissage ou a fait appel à de brefs cours de formation. Aujourd’hui, ces personnes sont souvent assimilées de façon générique à un groupe...

Dans cette deuxième table ronde, ce sont sept chercheuses qui répondent aux questions visant à dresser l’état des lieux des études genre dans quatre contextes francophones: la Wallonie, la région francophone de la Belgique, le Québec, la province canadienne dans laquelle le français constitue la seule langue officielle, la France et la Suisse Roman...

When we talk about adults using ICT, inequalities between women and men very often emerge, and particular emphasis is placed on the negative relationship which women supposedly have with computers. Studies on ways of reducing these inequalities have often been based on information collected by IT professionals or expert users. This leaves out the m...

Which model of non-formal education can respond to the specific needs of caregivers of people having Alzheimer and similar diseases? A programme financing study circles allowed a group of citizens of Genoa (Italy) to self-organise to developing their knowledge and competencies. The final aim of the group was that of acquiring an expertise in caring...

Este texto tem como objectivo apresentar e discutir resultados de uma investigação conduzida em cinco países europeus sobre as necessidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida de mulheres adultas no uso de tecnologias. A metodologia adoptada baseou-se em entrevistas autobiográficas a cerca de 250 mulheres nos diferentes países e que puderem assim expr...

Bencivenga, R. (2007). Donne, disabilità e lavoro. Visioni differenti. Genova, Italia: Studio Taf.

EmpowerNet – un progetto cofinanziato dal Ministero del Welfare in base alla l. 383/2000 – è nato nel 2004 dalla collaborazione fra tre organizzazioni: l’AISM (Associazione Italiana Sclerosi Multipla), l’AIPD (Associazione Italiana Persone Down) e la FISH (Federazione Italiana Superamento Handicap). Il DISA, Dipartimento di Scienze Antropologiche d...

Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) receive information related to the disease via a vast array of means, in addition to their physician or other health care professionals. In recent years mass media has been responsible for relating to the public relevant news regarding MS, such as research updates and the approval of new pharmaceuticals, at time...

To develop an international services and needs assessment instrument (SUN) for people with multiple sclerosis and their carers and to pilot this in different countries of the European Community. Interview study of people with multiple sclerosis, their carers and nominated key professionals examining the unmet needs of patients and carers. Belgium,...

Objective: To develop an international services and needs assessment instrument (SUN) for people with multiple sclerosis and their carers and to pilot this in different countries of the European Community. Design: Interview study of people with multiple sclerosis, their carers and nominated key professionals examining the unmet needs of patients an...

To identify the demographic characteristics of callers utilizing a tollfree service provided by the National Headquarters of the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society (AISM) and to determine the topics of these calls, an analysis of 1,384 consecutive telephone calls received during a period of three months, from February 1, 1996 through April 30, 1996...