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people.

– Tolstoy –

Science is the captain, and
practice the soldiers.

– Leonardo da Vinci –

Frontiers of science are like the
horizon: the more we approach
it, the more it moves away.

– Boiste –

The fantasy is more important
than knowing.

– Albert Einstein –

Science – it means organized
knowledge.

– Spencer –

Freedom for the science the
same as the air for a living soul.

– Poincaré –

Research area of all sciences is
endless.

– Pascal –

System of science must be
looked at as the system of
nature: all in it is endless and
necessary.

– Cuvier –

Scientific plan without working
hypothesis is a skeleton without
living body.

– Hirschfeld-

The main research subject of
mankind is the human.

– Goethe –

All is important in science.

– Heine –

Books must be results of
sciences, but sciences not results
of books.

– Bacon –

Scientist is not the one, who
gives the right answers, but the
one, who asks the right
questions.

– Claude Lévi-Strauss –

The more we will seek for the
truth outside us, the more we
will move away of it. The more
we will be able to understand
who we are, the more the truth
will assert us in ourselves.

– Antonio Meneghetti –

Before being dictated the nature
needs to be obeyed.

– Bacon –

A true scientist is not one who
has more acquired, but one who
has more understood.

– Leibniz –

Science – to know how the
being acts. To know the action
of the being.

– Antonio Meneghetti –

Science is benefactor of
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Sākums » News » The Institute of Economics of LAS will implement the Horizon 2020 project

The Institute of Economics of LAS will implement the Horizon 2020 project

December 2020 | News

The Institute of Economics of the Latvian Academy of Sciences is starting an ambitious HORIZON-2020 project in the field of gender equality “EQUALS-EU: European Regional Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age”. The project involves 19 partners from the following countries: Norway, Sweden, France, UK, Belgium, Ukraine, Switzerland, Latvia, Spain, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Israel, Greece, Serbia, China and the Republic of Korea. The EQUALS-EU Consortium members were purposively selected to represent countries that have made noteworthy progress in achieving gender equality, such as Switzerland and Sweden, as well as countries that will use the partnership to accelerate progress, such as Ukraine and Turkey. 

The Project aims to promote gender equity in social innovation and to help eliminate gender stereotypes and biases by increasing the reputation of women and girls as leaders in social innovation and entrepreneurship through innovation in the education system. It focuses on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as well as power skills in the ICT sector. EQUALS-EU responds to the Call Topic Innovators of the future: bridging the gender gap, and is designed particularly to support Strategic Orientation 1 “Accelerating and catalysing processes of institutional change” and Strategic Orientation 2 “Stepping up support to Gender Equality in Research & Innovation policy”.

EQUALS-EU is anchored in three fields of practice for gender equity: 

1. Gender equity in innovation and entrepreneurship. Empowering women in the labour market means giving them the possibility to thrive as investors, entrepreneurs, executives, board members, and decision-makers. 

2. Gender equity in STEM education and lifelong learning. It is essential to recognize the importance of ICT-related education in all sectors in the digital age and to radically transform existing educational systems to enable women and girls to acquire STEM and power skills. 

3. Gender equity in employment in the ICT industry. The ICT industry is segregated. A small minority of developers in Europe are women. 

Project is funded by Horizon2020 Research and innovation framework “Science with and for Society” (SwafS-26-2020).



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