Overview:

The Specific Support Action (SSA) “Strengthening the Role of Women Scientists in Nano-Science” = WomenInNano is funded by the 6th Framework programme of the European Commission in “Science and Society”/ "Women and Science" (http://www.cordis.lu/science-society/fp6.htm). It brings together 11 partners from 9 European countries - Germany, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Italy and France – under the coordination of the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research IFW Dresden, Germany. The basic idea of the project is to allow high-level women scientists working in Nano-science to act as Ambassadors for Women and Science in order to raise awareness of gender issues in science (more specific, in Nano-Science) and to provide ‘role models’ for girls and women, with a view to encouraging them to consider studies and pursue careers in scientific fields. The project will empower and enlarge the women scientists group working in Nano-Science and increase its visibility in the international scientific community. WomenInNano proposes a series of activities, which will create and stimulate structural links at national, trans-national, regional and trans-regional level between scientists (female and male), policy makers and society at large.