Genera 2025 Competition

The competition “Beyond gender stereotypes and towards the professions of the future: women and research in physics” is now open for students of secondary schools and organized by CNR – IRPPS and INFN – National Institute of Nuclear Physics with the support of the Mind the Geps project, to raise awareness on gender issues and the opportunities offered by the study of Physics through both basic research and its countless applications in the technological, medical, cultural, financial fields etc.

Participants, individually or in groups and with the coordination of the teacher, will have to develop a short video on one of the following topics: Women and Science, Between Stereotypes and Prejudices o Scientists who change the world for the two-year period, and Gender Bias in Innovation o Gender, Science and Media for the three-year period.

Deadline to join: January 31, 2025
Project Submission Deadline: March 10, 2025

The complete announcement with the indications on how to participate, technical requirements of the videos and description of the themes is available on the website: https://genera.sites.lngs.infn.it/ .

In order to offer an opportunity to delve deeper into the topics covered by the call, the GENERA NETWORK group is organising a free online teacher training course by Title STEM disciplines: between professions of the future and gender gap. Participation in the course and the competition will allow you to obtain certification for a training activity of at least 24 hours. More details on the course, which will take place between December 2024 and January 2025, will soon be available on the website: https://genera.sites.lngs.infn.it/.