The conference will showcase ERC-funded frontier research projects that both study diversity in society and that exemplify the importance of taking diversity into account in research design. (PDF)

Programme

8.30 – 9.00 | Registration

9.00 – 9.15 |  Opening address by European Commissioner for Equality, Helena Dalli

9.15 – 9.25 | Introduction by Maria Leptin, ERC President

9.25 – 10.20 | Keynote: The Female Turn: How Evolutionary Science Shifted Perceptions About Females

• Malin Ah-King, Stockholm University, SE (PDF)

10.20 – 10.40 | Coffee break 

10.40 – 12.10 | Session I: Diversity in Health Research

Moderator

• Geneviève Almouzni, ERC Scientific Council Member, Chair of the Gender & Diversity Issues Working Group

Rapporteur

• Philippe Cupers, Head of Unit Life Sciences, ERCEA

Speakers

• Social inequalities in health: an intersectional approach, Pierre-Yves Geoffard, CNRS, FR (PDF)
• Molecular insights in “real-life” immunology, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Leiden University, NL (PDF)
• Hypertension in African migrants: Lessons learnt from the RODAM study, Charles Agyemang, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, NL (PDF)
• ECAP: Genetic/epigenetic basis of ethnic differences in cancer predisposition, Gian-Paolo Dotto, University of Lausanne (UNIL) ,CH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), CH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, US (PDF)
   

12.10 - 13.10 | Lunch

13.10 – 14.40 | Session 2: Diversity from a Technological and Legal Perspective

Moderator

• Tom Henzinger, Member of the ERC Scientific Council

Rapporteur

• Alejandro Martin Hobdey, Head of Unit Physical Sciences and Engineering, ERCEA

Speakers

• Diversity in the Machine Learning Age, Louise Amoore, Durham University, UK (PDF)
• Improving Decision Making with Machine Learning, Fairly, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute, DE (PDF)
• Diversity in Body Representation for Neuroprosthetics, Giovanni Di Pino, University of Rome, IT (PDF)
   

14.40 – 15.10 | Coffee break

15.10 – 16.40 | Session 3: Perceptions of Diversity

Moderator

• Harriet Bulkeley, Member of the ERC Scientific Council

Rapporteur

• Lino Paula, Head of Unit Social Sciences and Humanities, ERCEA

Speakers

• Tracing Queer Citizenship over Time: older LGBTI+ lived experiences in Southern Europe, Ana Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, PT (PDF)
• NEUROEPIGENETHICS: investigating neurodiversity in a neuromixed research group, Kristien Hens, University of Antwerp, BE (PDF) 
• CEC - The Cognitive-Ecological Challenge of Diversity, Hans Alves, University of Bochum, DE (PDF)
• Coexistence and conflict in the age of complexity, Eeva Puumala, Tampere University, FI (PDF)
   

16.40 – 17.45 | Session 4: Roundtable: The Importance of Diversity in Research

Moderator

• Angela Liberatore, Head of Scientific Management Department, ERCEA

Speakers

• Joanna Drake, Deputy Director-General for Research & Innovation, European Commission
• Semiha Denktaş, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL
• Emilia Gómez, Joint Research Centre (European Commission) & Pompeu Fabra University, ES
• Gian-Paolo Dotto, University of Lausanne (UNIL), CH, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), CH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, US
• Ana Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, PT
   

17.45 – 18.00 | Concluding remarks

• Geneviève Almouzni, ERC Scientific Council Member, Chair of the Gender & Diversity Issues Working Group
• Laurence Moreau, Director of the ERC Executive Agency