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AWSE Project Underway

African Women in Science & Engineering is cooperating with IWISE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Colleges and Universities on a two-year HIV AIDS science education project. Headquartered in Nairobi, AWSE has a secretariat whose members include former IWISE participants, Mabel Imbuga, Caroline Lang’at Thurua, and Ebby Chagala. Other IWISE participants actively involved in this project are Debra Meyer, Sophy Musaana, Kallunde Sibuga, Mary Mwangi, and Ana Mpunami. To find out more about AWSE and this project, please contact Mabel, Ebby, and Caroline at awse@cgiar.org. Congratulations to AWSE!

E-wise Network Launched

A second IWISE-affiliated network, E-wise, was set up at a meeting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in May 2001. Participating in that meeting were Nataliya Babenko, Institute of Biology, Kharkiv National University, Maria Dobrotvorskaya, Kharkiv Institute of Single Crystals, Jolanta Liesiene, National Technical University, Kaunas, Lithuania, Galina Merkulova, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, Svetlana Zhmaylo, Federal Nuclear Center, Sarov, Russia, Mzia Zhvania, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Ardith Maney and Mary Ann Evans, IWISE co-directors. Other founding members who could not be present are Meri Melkonyan, State Engineering Academy, Yerevan, Armenia, Adriana Marica, National Institute of Meteorology & Hydrology, Bucharest, Romania, and Daniela Pilarska, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

As a result of the meeting, the following decisions were taken.

1.Establish the E-wise network affiliated with the IWISE worldwide network of women scientists. Masha Dobrotvorskaya agreed to act as the network facilitator. Secretariat services for the network will be provided by NGO Perspectives, which is connected to the IWISE training program at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in Kharkiv, Ukraine.


2. E-wise participants seek to organize activities benefiting network members in two main areas: international information sharing and skill building

3. A network website will be constructed offering the following services to members – electronic resume hosting and career services, electronic conferencing, an electronic course bank (see below), and related services. It will be linked with the IWISE website.

4. Electronic courses designed for skill building are especially sought in the following areas: resume writing, working in teams, time management, project management, proposal writing, effective communication, motivating people, developing supervisory leadership skills, and managing conflict.

5. The E-wise website will also host websites for women’s scientists’ clubs and nongovernmental organizations in the region and, on a pilot basis, summaries of research by women scientists in the region.

6. Access to the network will expand to include former IWISE participants in Bucharest, Romania, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Yerevan, Armenia, who were not able to attend this year’s workshop and, later on, to all other former IWISE Fellows in the region.

7. Network members will actively work with IWISE to fund network projects. We look forward to working with E-wise. For more information about how to join this network and participate in its activities, please contact Masha Dobrotvorskaya at masha@isc.kharkov.com.

 

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