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Dr Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam and Dr Monique van der Veen, both of the faculty of Applied Sciences at the TU Delft, will receive the NWO Athena Prize 2018 at the CHAINS chemistry conference on 4 December.

Despite the fact that more and more women are pursuing careers in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – the gender gap is still significant. The good news is that at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, the number of women has consistently increased over the last years.

To what extent does the environment at research universities and universities of applied sciences contribute to an open, healthy and inclusive working environment? ScienceGuide has put together a dossier with articles, reports, news items and interviews on a range of subjects related to an open, healthy and inclusive working environment. What works well and what doesn't work when it comes to promoting diversity in the workplace? In a series of articles, professors at universities of applied sciences and others explain their approach and research into these issues. The ScienceGuide dossier also contains articles on the role of the confidential adviser and news about the emancipation of women in science and academia. See the dossier on the ScienceGuide website here.

This paper by the League of European Research Universities (LERU) looks at the role of implicit bias as a mechanism behind the gender gap and a potential threat to academic meritocracy.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has published a brochure in English on how to take gender and equal opportunities into consideration in Horizon 2020 projects.