Assistant Professor in Sociology Institute at the University of Gdansk, Principle Investigator, Academic Teacher, Expert focused on women and men carriers in STEM, diversity management, intimate relations, and gender studies.

She conducts training on Diversity Management, Intercultural Communication, Age Management, Work-Life-Balance & Male and Female Leadership Principal Investigator and member of projects of international projects. Cooperates in international research projects with Norway, USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Romania, Chile, and France. Expert in gender relations and status quo for (1) Community of Practice (On the Way to Gender Equality – Community of Practice for Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe) of Act Project under grant agreement No 788 204 (introducing Memorandum of Understanding for establishing Communities of PrACTice for advancing gender equality in RPOs and RFOs across Europe for at UG), (2) Gender Academy European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 824585, (3) National Researcher for Gender-Sensitive Parliaments – EU 28 assessment, (4) National Researcher for COVID & Domestic Violence – EU 28 assessment.

As a diverse expert, she also co-authored the Integrative Model for Migrants for the City of Gdańsk. She is media expert for Gazeta Wyborcza, TVN, Radio Gdańsk, TVP Gdańsk.

Diversity & Inclusion expert, motivational speaker, trainer, HR consultant, and mediator

Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka has a Ph.D. in Psychology and works as an Associate Professor in the Division of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Psychology of Gender at the University of Gdańsk (Poland).

Her main area of practice and research is diversity and work-life balance within the area cross-cultural psychology and her special interests are mechanisms of bias, social change and organizational cues fostering social capital and diversity within organizations and societies across the world. She gained her expertise working for e.g. ABB, BPH, BRE Leasing, BRE BANK, Det Norske Veritas, Deloitte, DR IRENA ERIS, Energa, European Solidarity Center, Farm Frites, Fundacja Gospodarcza, Gdańska Fundacja Przedsiębiorczości, GFKM, HBSC, Intel, L'Oréal, LOTOS, LPP, MPK Łódź, NSZZ Solidarność, Polkomtel SA, Remontowa Shipbuilding, Schenker, Thomson Reuters, Ulstein, Wojewódzki Urząd Pracy.

She has also a leading role of Principal Investigator in two international consortiums PAR Migration Navigator coordinating a research project entitled Socio-Cultural and Psychological Predictors of Work-Life Balance And Gender Equality: Cross-Cultural Comparison of Polish And Norwegian Families, funded by Norway Grants in the Polish-Norwegian Research Program, wherewith her team she analyses profits of gender equality for men and women and Towards Gender Harmony (www.towardsgenderharmony.ug.edu.pl).

As a diverse expert, she also co-authored the Integrative Model for Migrants for the City of Gdańsk. She is media expert for Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik Bałtycki, Newsweek, Radio Gdańsk, Polish Radio Trójka.

How to be an effective team member? How to manage diverse teams effectively, so we achieve our top performance? How to deal with conflicts in teams?

dr hab Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, prof. UG

number of available places: 16

The goal of the workshop webinar is to equip participants with practical knowledge on how to enhance diversity within teams and how to manage it if one is a team member or leader/PI of a group. Diversity can be related to personality differences, different working styles but also is a direct result of gender, age, and cultural diversity, etc. Innovative teams are the ones that are built on diversity. Nevertheless, there are certain conditions that allow team members to work together in synergy and achieve top performance. During our course, we will thus, together with participants, analyse their strengths and potential in effective team building and team management and apply best practices in diversity team management to their cases/future plans/careers. The themes discussed during the workshop can be used within:

• Building effective teamwork while conducting research

• Fostering interpersonal relations with academics

• Planning your academic career

• Managing teamwork while dealing with intercultural/gender differences

Workshop Partner

See more at: https://mosaic.iimcb.gov.pl

Seven steps to building rapport and engineer your presentation skills in the times of corona.

dr Magdalena Żadkowska

number of available places: 16

The training will focus on basic and advanced presentation skills and techniques: how to effectively manage "oneself and the content" during the online presentations/workshops etc. During the workshop webinar we will focus on hints on how to master one’s self-presentation skill, with a special focus on online meetings, the main themes:

• Getting to know one's (self)presentation strengths and determining the potential for development

• Getting acquainted with the tools for building a structure and content of an effective presentation.

• Getting to know different techniques of building the right impression, attracting attention, and influencing others during the presentation

• Creating a set of good practices for dealing with "difficult" participants of the presentation

• Managing stress during presentations

• How to appeal to diverse audiences?

Workshop Partner

See more at: https://mosaic.iimcb.gov.pl

Career opportunities in Roche Global It Solution Centre

Roche IT Solution Centre

number of available places: 16

Those interested in career paths that Roche IT Solution Centre offers to talented people with a scientific background we would like to invite for a short workshop. During the workshop we will present four career paths available for post-scientists in our organization.

Participants will have the opportunity:

• to learn how our software contributes to early stage drug discovery process 

• what are our roles and responsibilities 

• discover their own potential to join the team
  
  

The symposium is financed by the "Excellent science - support for scientific conferences" program of the Ministry of Education and Science (formerly the Ministry of Science and Higher Education).

More: Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme.

The symposium is financed by the "Excellent science - support for scientific conferences" program of the Ministry of Education and Science (formerly the Ministry of Science and Higher Education).

IIMCB received funds from "Excellent science - support for scientific conferences" Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme for the organisation of 1^st Women in Science Symposium. 

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Sponsor and Workshop Partner

See more at: https://mosaic.iimcb.gov.pl

1^st Women in Science Symposium

4^th and 5^th of March 2021

Registration is open! 

We are very excited to anticipate what WiSS 2021 has to offer. Along with virtual workshops, we are delighted to announce our speakers:

Keynote talks by:

• Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz – Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge, UK. Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, USA.

• Prof Maya Schuldiner - Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Three exciting sessions featuring speakers from academia, industry, and mainstream careers:

Academia:

• Dr Sushma-Nagaraja Grellscheid - Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway and Assistant Professor at Durham University, UK.

• Dr Dragomir Milovanovic, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin.

• Prof Alexandre Bonvin - Professor of Computational Structural Biology, Scientific Director of the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Industry:

• Dr Pamela Williams – Senior Director, Molecular Sciences, Astex Pharmaceuticals.

• Dr Carien Dekker, Senior Principal Scientist at Novartis, Basel.

• Dr Alicja Czubaty - IT Expert Business Analyst, Roche Global IT Solution Centre.

• Dr Stefan Merkl – Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of CrystalsFirst GmbH.

Mainstream careers:

• Dr Danielle Desravines – Grants Officer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Grenoble, France, and Heidelberg, Germany.

• Dr Karin Kuehnel - Senior Editor, Nature Communications. London, UK.

• Dr Radika Patnala – Founder and Director Sci-Illustrate, Munich, Germany.

• Dr Bianka Siwińska – CEO Perspektywy Education Foundation.

In addition, during the facts and figures session, we will learn about women in science and gender balance across Europe and in Poland through the talks of:

• Dr Marem Jochimsen – Essen College of Gender Studies, Essen-Duisburg University, Germany. Vice-president of the European Platform of Women Scientists. 

• Prof Gijsbert Stoet - Department of Psychology, University of Essex, England.

• Dr Izabela Wagner - Associated Professor of Sociology at Collegium Civitas - Warsaw/Poland, Associated Researcher in DynamE - Dynamiques Européennes (L’UMR7367 - CNRS - Université de Strasbourg), Fellow ICM PARIS at the Institut Convergence Migration.

The cherry on the cake will be a round table discussion on the closing day of the symposium with speakers from different sessions.

Don’t miss the registration date, the upcoming WiSS website, and all you need to know to make the most of this unique event.

The symposium is financed by the "Excellent science - support for scientific conferences" program of the Ministry of Education and Science (formerly the Ministry of Science and Higher Education).

More: Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme.