The GenTIC research group is pleased to invite you to its upcoming annual research seminar to present recent research findings and share ongoing project activities with academics, researchers, students, professionals, and anyone interested in understanding intersectional gender inequalities to foster a more just, decolonial and inclusive society in the digital age: “Challenges and resistances to gender inequalities and intersectional power relations in education, research and innovation“.

When: Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Time: 10:00 h – 14:00 h CEST

Venue: UOC Campus – Building C (room C0.6, Rambla del Poblenou, 154 Barcelona) and online (link will be provided after registration)

Languages: Catalan, English and Spanish (no translation available)

Registration: To participate, please register here.

In this event, the GenTIC team will discuss their latest research studies on how to promote inclusive gender equity in education and in the science and innovation ecosystem, challenging persisting stereotypes and structural barriers, as well as discussing theoretical and methodological approaches to applying an intersectional and decolonial lens to end current inequalities.

See the programme below:

10:00 – 10:05 h Welcome by Milagros Sáinz, director of the Gender and ICT research group at UOC.

Part 1

10:05 h – 10:15 h Cosmopolíticas de la resistencia: agencia de mujeres indígenas y defensa de sus cuerpos y territorios. Ana María Noguera Durán

10:15 h – 10:25 h EDUGENIA – Un toolkit interseccional para el aprendizaje crítico con la inteligencia artificial en la educación secundaria. Marie-Monique Schaper 

10:25 h – 10:35 hThe Femtech Issue: from users’ experiences to regulation. Luana Mathias Souto

10:35 h – 10:45 h Technogendering de la economía digital: Intervenciones teóricas y metodologías feministas. Mónica Grau Sarabia

10:45 h – 11:15 h Questions and answers and discussion

11:15 – 11:30 h Break

Part 2

11:30 h – 11:40 h Inspiring women in STEM. Broadening young people’s horizons in STEM through an intervention with female role models. Milagros Sáinz  

11:40 h – 11:50 h A Scoping Review of the role of well-being in mentoring-based interventions to enhance STEM motivation among adolescents and youth: gender migrant background influences. Miruna Bivol

11:50 h – 12:00 h ¿Cómo perciben los estudiantes de primaria la igualdad de género y los estereotipos de género en las profesiones y la escuela? Rocío Segura Nebot

12:00 h – 12:10 h Challenging harmful gender stereotypes in children: starting to frame my thesis plan. Irune Ramírez Achutegui.

12:10 h – 12:40 h Questions and answers and discussion

12:40 h 13:00 h Break

Part 3

13:00 h – 13:10 h Empremtes d’interseccionalitat: un cas de formulació de polítiques interseccionals mitjançant la col·laboració entre unitats a una universitat pública espanyola. Aran Romero Moreno

13:10 h – 13:20 h An evidence-based reflexive approach to fostering gender equality in research performing organisations in Europe. Rachel Palmén 

13:20 h – 13:30 h From power to status, from resistance to justification. Rethinking logics of organisational change. Jörg Müller

13:30 h – 14:00 h Questions and answers and discussion

14:00 h Closing of the seminar

This seminar is organized in the framework of the following projects:

ACTFEM TOOLKIT. Funded by the Women’s Institute of the Spanish Ministry of Equality.

HORIGESTEM. Grant PID2021-123049OB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF “A way of making Europe”.

INDIWOMINTFunded by the European Union’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101149072.

INSPIREFunded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101058537.

THELMAFunded by the European Union’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101149321.

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