We should like to say a special
thank you to Nicole Dewandre, and present
and former members of the
Women and Science sector in DG12: Annalisa
Colosimo, Brigitte Degen, Claire Simonini and Clementina Tibazarwa, for
making arrangements for the group’s meetings in Brussels and for providing
additional data. We should also like to acknowledge Alison
Parken of Bristol
University, who helped with data collection and proof-reading and Tony
Streeter and Caroline Keedy in Göttingen for help in producing the final
versions of the report. Dave Worth was responsible for the design and layout
and we owe him a special debt of gratitude.
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Abbreviations
AFFI ....................................................... Association of French Women Engineers
AKFiZ .................................................... Arbeitskreis: Frauen in den Forschunsgentren (Ger)
ALLEA ................................................... All
European Academies
AWIS ..................................................... Association for Women in Science (US)
AWISE ................................................... Association for Women in Science and Engineering (UK)
BLK ........................................................ Federal State Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion
(Germany)
BMBF ..................................................... Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Germany)
BuKoF .................................................... Network of Equality Commissioners in Higher Education (Germany)
BIOAC ................................................... Biological Sciences Advisory Committee (NSF)
BOE ....................................................... Biological, Oceanographic and Earth Sciences
CEA ....................................................... Atomic Energy Commission (France)
CEC ....................................................... Commission of the European Communities
CERN .................................................... The European Laboratory for Particle Physics
CNISF .................................................... National Council of French Engineers and Scientists
CNR ...................................................... Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche (Italian Research Council)
CNRS .................................................... Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Natural
Centre for Scientific
Research) (France)
CODEST .............................................. Committee for the Development of Science and Technology
CRAF ..................................................... Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequenices
CRE ........................................................ European Rectors’ Conference
CREST ................................................... Scientific and Technical Research Committee
DFG ....................................................... Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association)
DDR ...................................................... former German Democratic Republic
DG ......................................................... Directorate General (of the EC)
DM ......................................................... DeutscheMark
EARMA ................................................. European Association of Research
Managers and Administrators
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Science policies in the European Union
EC .......................................................... European Commission
EIRMA ................................................... European Industrial Research Managers’ Association
EMaPS .................................................... European Marine and Polar Science
EMBO .................................................... European Molecular Biology Organisation
EMBL ..................................................... European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EMRC .................................................... European
Medical Research Council
ERT ......................................................... European Round Table
ESA ......................................................... European Space Agency
ESF ......................................................... European Science Foundation
ESF ......................................................... European Social Fund
ESO ........................................................ European Southern Observatory
ESRF ....................................................... European Synchrotron
Radiation facility
ESSC ...................................................... European Space Science Committee
ESTA ...................................................... European Science and Technology Assembly
ETAN ..................................................... European Technology Assessment Network
EO .......................................................... Equal opportunities
EU .......................................................... European Union
EURO-CASE ........................................ European Council of Applied Science and Engineering
EURESCO ............................................ European Research Conferences
FEBS ....................................................... Federation of European
Biochemical Societies
FNRS ..................................................... Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique
FRG ........................................................ Federal Republic of Germany
HCM ...................................................... Human Capital Mobility
HESA ..................................................... Higher Education Statistics Agency (UK)
HFSP ...................................................... Human Frontier Science Programme
HGF ....................................................... The Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres (Germany)
HRST ..................................................... Human Resources in Science and Technology
HSP II/III ................................................ Special University Programmes of the
Federal Government and States
(Germany)
IBNC ...................................................... Institute for Molecular Pathology (Portugal)
IFU ......................................................... International Women’s University on Technology and Culture at Expo 2000
(Germany)
INSERM ................................................. National Institute of Health and Medical Research (France)
IRDAC ................................................... Industrial Research and Development Advisory Committee
ITQB ...................................................... Institute for Biotechnology (Portugal)
KNAW .................................................. Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
LESC ...................................................... Life and environment sciences
MPG ....................................................... Max-Planck-Society (Germany)
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