The University of Bergen welcomes researchers, university teachers, administrators, gender equality practitioners and student union representatives to the 7th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. The conference will focus on gender equality in a changing academic world against the backdrop of the current financial crisis in Europe and beyond.

The UK's most inspiring young women working in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) industries are being called for nominations to this year's 2012 WISE Awards. It celebrates individuals, organisations, leaders and advisors in STEM that promote gender equality and diversity, including the Excellence Award that recognises the achievement of women in the early stages of their technology jobs and other STEM roles, as well as promote their career to girls and other young women.

Interest in computer science continues to grow among undergrad students, who pushed enrollments up nearly 10% in the 2011-12 academic year. This marks the fourth straight year of increases. The numbers might have been even higher if not for enrollment caps that some schools have put in place because they don't have enough faculty members, equipment or classrooms to meet demand, according to the Computing Research Association (CRA), which conducts the annual Taulbee survey.

Award Honors Denver Woman Who Best Exemplifies Exceptional Professional Achievement ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud computing and managed services providers in North America, announces that Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder Nancy Phillips has been nominated for the ATHENA Award. Hosted by Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, the ATHENA Award honors the Denver woman who best exemplifies exceptional professional achievement, devotion to community service and generosity in actively assisting other women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills. Finalists are chosen from nominations that are submitted by the Colorado business community. From the group of finalists, a panel of business and community leaders will select the award recipient. The award gala will take place from 5:30pm - 9pm April 26 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, Colorado.

Addressing the worldwide need for more computing experts, Oregon State University has developed the nation's first online post-baccalaureate degree program in computer science, which is expected to open doors to countless new career opportunities for students, professionals and unemployed workers.

There’s ample data to show women are just as good - if not better - than men in the STEM career track. And some reports show that simple bias keeps even elementary school-age girls from advancing in math and science, putting the kink in the pipeline at the very earliest stage. But here's a question: Exactly why is it so crucial to get women into math and science in the first place? Gender diversity not good enough for you? You need practical reasons for this big STEM push? For the non-believers, a new report from the White House Council on Women and Girls provides some answers - and suggests that non-participation in STEM may be costlier than ever for women.

Nancy Lynch, a long-time Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer science professor, was named Tuesday the Athena Lecturer, an annual award for pioneering female researchers who work in computer science. Lynch, who has been an MIT professor since 1981, is the seventh recipient of the award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Council on Women in Computing. She works in the school's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and is known for pioneering work that uses mathematics to perfect wired and wireless computer networks.

The FP7 project FI-WARE, part of the Future Internet Public Private Partnership, announces its first Open Call for new project partners. FI-WARE will deliver a new service infrastructure, building upon generic and reusable building blocks called ''Generic Enablers''. FI-WARE develops open specifications and reference implementations of Generic Enablers. This open call asks for organizations that can contribute or develop the Generic Enablers related to middleware and business models. Total funding available for new partners is up to 2 Million Euro, and the call closes on 25 April 2012 at 17h00.

WIRES is the international summit for women who are interested in pursuing international collaborative researching opportunities. The main objective of this summit is to enable meaningful and sustainable research exchanges between female engineers from around the world while identifying issues faced by females pursuing careers in engineering that could benefit from a global strategy. More information about the 3rd Women's International Research Engineering Summit- WIRES 2012 to take place at 12-14 September 2012 in Athens, is available in WIRES website.

The conference aims to showcase the situation of women in companies committed to research, development and innovation. Moreover, it attempts to show the importance of gender perspective in industrial R&D. The conference gives also place to companies to present their measures introduced to achieve gender equality.