Genera 2025 Competition

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

Participants, individually or in groups and under the coordination of a teacher, must produce a short video on one of the following topics: Women and science, between stereotypes and prejudices or Female scientists who change the world for the first two years of secondary school, and Gender bias in innovation or Gender, Science and Media for the final three years.

Registration by: January 31, 2025
Project submission by: March 10, 2025

The full call for applications, including participation guidelines, technical requirements for videos, and topic descriptions, is available at: https://genera.sites.lngs.infn.it/ .

In order to provide an opportunity for further study on the topics of the call, the GENERA NETWORK group is organizing a free online training course for teachers entitled STEM Disciplines: between professions of the future and the gender gap. Participation in both the course and the competition will allow for the certification of a training activity equal to at least 24 hours. Further details on the course, which will take place between December 2024 and January 2025, will soon be available at: https://genera.sites.lngs.infn.it/.