DATE & TIME
2 October 2025, 9:00 – 10:30
TRACKS
TRACK 1: Living Labs for Grand Societal Challenges
TRACK 5: Living Labs Operations, Methods, Tools, and Impact
ROOM
IGNIS
Description
The aim of the workshop is to increase the understanding of gender in LLs and provide practical ways in which LLs can become more gender sensitive.
‘Gender’ remains a complex issue, with many simply dismissing it as simply a woman’s problem or not relevant to their work. The workshop aims to put this right, through
- A short presentation with examples of how gender is relevant to all LLs.
- Scenario-based activities in which participants will work in teams to discuss everyday gender related problems faced by LLs and select from a series of tools and methods developed by GILL project, which can be used to alleviate them
- Action learning sets to develop Gender Action Plans for their LLs
At the end of the workshop, all attendees will:
- have co-designed a ‘gender action plan’ to implement in their LLs;
- receive a certificate in gender competence.
Agenda
Timeslot |
Item |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:05 | Rapid introductions and admin |
| 09:05 – 09:20 | Important gender definitions for Living Labs |
| 09:20 – 09:50 | Scenario based learning in teams. We provide a set of typical gender related problems that are experienced in LLs – you have to select, form a car dec, the most appropriate Gender Responsive Smart Innovation Tool to use |
| 09:50 – 10:20 | Developing Gender Action Plan (GAP) for your LL in Action Learning Sets (ALS) – in small groups you will discuss one gender/diversity issue in your LL and then make a GAP which you can implement in your LL which you will share with your ALS |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Handing out of Gender Competence Certificates |
Facilitators
Andree Woodcock
Professor of education ergonomics and design at Coventry University & Member of Coventry City Lab
Andree Woodcock
Professor of education ergonomics and design at Coventry University & Member of Coventry City LabAndree is professor of education ergonomics and design at Coventry University, and a member of Coventry City Lab. She has led and contributed to a number of EU funded projects in the areas of mobility and gender and British Council grants to support research development in Pakistan. Her work focuses on user centred design and encouragement of design research methods. She is leader of the WG in Gender and Innovation.
Nicola Marsden
Professor of social informatics at Heilbronn University
Nicola Marsden
Professor of social informatics at Heilbronn UniversityNicola Marsden is a professor of social informatics at Heilbronn University, where she leads the Lab for Social Informatics. The lab focuses on gender-responsive innovation and inclusive tech development, using feminist living lab methods like co-creation and participatory design to tackle social and technological challenges. She has served as an expert for bodies such as the EU's ERA Committee on Gender, the German Government’s Equality Report, and the UNESCO Commission on AI and Gender. Trained in psychology, her work bridges tech, design, and organisational behaviour, with a research focus on debiasing design processes and developing socially responsible AI.
Sheena Laursen
Programme Manager at the Danish science centre Experimentarium
Sheena Laursen
Programme Manager at the Danish science centre ExperimentariumSheena Laursen is a Programme Manager at the Danish science centre Experimentarium. With a background in teaching and a master’s degree in ICT and Learning, she has specialised in science learning projects, and strategic development. She is committed to enhancing diversity and inclusion within science communication, promoting equitable opportunities for all. Sheena has been the lead on organisational change towards a more inclusive environment and inclusive science communication at the Experimentarium.
Barbara De Micheli
Head of the Social Justice Unit in Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini
Barbara De Micheli
Head of the Social Justice Unit in Fondazione Giacomo BrodoliniBarbara De Micheli has over 25 years of experience in on the field research on social policies, fundamental rights, diversity inclusion and gender related issues. Since 2019, she is the Head of the Social Justice Unit in Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini. In the last ten years, she has coordinated complex multiannual and transnational projects at the ‘Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini’, concerning the analysis, assessment and elaboration of the Gender Equality Plans, both grounding on qualitative and quantitative research methods; she has coordinated the development and implementation of the GEPs of Institute Pasteur, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute University, Toscana Lifescience. Her work includes coordination of research projects funded by European Commission, FRA, Eurofound, DG Reserach and DG EMPL. In addition, she is involved in training services to different institutions and private companies. She is particularly focused on diversity and inclusion issues as the designer and coordinator of the Master in ‘Gender Equality and Diversity Management’.
Andra Tanase
Strategic Development, Membership and Partnership Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster
Andra Tanase
Strategic Development, Membership and Partnership Manager at Transilvania IT ClusterCurrently serving as Strategic Development, Membership and Partnership Manager at Transilvania IT Cluster and expert consultant on green and digital transformation, conflict management, non-formal education and development cooperation. She works on strategic programme design, capacity building, intercultural intelligence, policymaking and organisational and civil society development from mainly the perspective of collaborative leadership and innovation. Her passion is to create environments of personal, organisational and societal strategic and systemic learning and development, and this only sounds complicated it is only complex and at the same time extremely feasible and magically rewarding when there is a will.
Gabriella Quaranta
Head of Network - ENoLL
Gabriella Quaranta
Head of Network - ENoLLGraduated in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Rome “Sapienza”, she has been working as project manager in EC funded projects, including GILL, working with multidisciplinary teams and driving collaboration across a diverse range of stakeholders for the last ten years and, she has been very active in the EU R&I Framework Programmes being also an Italian National Contact Point (NCP) in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe following mobility and security areas in particular. She has been personally coordinating EC funded projects, dealing of course with project management but also with dissemination & communication activities and with stakeholder engagement, acquiring a deep knowledge in these matters as well; furthermore, she has been a trainer, delivering dozens of trainings on Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe related issues.
Arianna Marucci
Junior Project Manager - ENoLL
Arianna Marucci
Junior Project Manager - ENoLLArianna Marucci is a Junior Project Manager at ENoLL. Fascinated by the intersection of new technologies and cultural diversity, she holds a Master’s degree in International Relations in the Digital Era. At ENoLL, Arianna contributes to the Projects Unit and the Proposals Writing team, where she supports the management and implementation of various projects, as well as the preparation of proposals for competitive bids.In her role, Arianna is also part of the coordination team for the GILL (Gendered Innovation Living Labs) project, where she is gaining valuable experience in the coordination of EU projects.
Konstantina Tsimpita
Project Manager in European initiatives and Living Labs in the Health and Well-being sector
Konstantina Tsimpita
Project Manager in European initiatives and Living Labs in the Health and Well-being sectorKonstantina Tsimpita holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics (2021) and a Master's in Biomedical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has experience in project management, particularly in European initiatives and Living Labs in the Health and Well-being sector. Her research focuses on Assistive Technologies and the use of AI and machine learning to extract health metrics from daily life data and predict health outcomes. She is also actively working on applying Living Lab methodologies in healthcare settings.