The Salento University (UNILE) is a young dynamic university. Since 1955 it has had the aim of promoting knowledge, skill and merit and has offered a large range of educational opportunities. From law to science, economics to engineering, humanities to media studies, the university provides academic pathways to a range of professions as well as post-graduate and specialist courses tailor made to meet the needs of the workplace. Six Faculties – hubs for the eight Departments – providing services and information for students, as well as thirty-three Research Centres throughout the Salento area.
Salento University
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technologies, Lecce, Italy - Research Performing Organisation
The Salento University aims to acquire the awareness and capability to introduce the enrolment and retention of women in science, implement work-life balance policies, and remove obstacles to women’s career progression.
GEP Library of UNILE
Based on the 5-Phases CALIPER work plan, UNILE implements 2 rounds of Gender Equality Plan design, development and evaluation lasting 12 months each.
Substantial results stemming from this process ensure the smooth running of the planned interventions, the engagement and commitment of key stakeholders and the envisioned sustainability of GEPs.
The Research & Innovation Hub of UNILE
What is the R&I Hub?
UNILE has identified external key players of the regional and national innovation ecosystem, including academia and universities, industry players, ministries/government bodies and public sector and civil society organisations to engage them in the GEP process.
Engaging interested and key external stakeholders in the GEP processes can bring gender balance and gender sensitiveness in transfer to market of scientific research results, it motivates young girls to embrace STEM studies, and it promotes gender sensitive co-design of research and tech products.
UNILE works with the external players of the Hub, to implement the collaborative GEP actions. These actions facilitate institutional change internally, but also initiate a conversation among the regional and national stakeholders, to adopt and implement gender policies in their organisations.
The R&I Hub members
The R&I Hub of UNILE consists of 4 organisations. All of them are industry players, working with a network of private and public entities.
GEP Working Group
Τhe UNILE Working Group (WG) supports the design of the GEP, its implementation, monitoring and further update whenever necessary, through collaboration with the UNILE CALIPER project team.
- Fabio Pollice, Rector
- Donato De Benedetto, General Adminstrative Director
- Rosaria Rinaldi, UNILE partner coordinator/full professor
- Sara Invitto, UNILE partner staff/adjunct professor
- Anna Maria Cherubini, UNILE Rector delegate for gender policies
- Monica McBritton, Head of UNILE CUG (Single Warranty Committee)
- Andrea Ventura, Rector Delegate for University's performance
- Loredana De Vitis, Head of UNILE Communication Office
- Gianna Avellis, Innovapuglia/ITWWIN
- Valeria De Matteis, Researcher
- Mariafrancesca Cascione, Researcher
- Elena Laurenzi, Researcher
- Matteo Maria Maglio, PhD representative in Academic Council
- Giulia Giannone, PhD representative in Math and Phys Dept.
- Linda Albanese, Undergraduate Student/Student representative
Organisation Team
Rosaria Rinaldi
Full professor in Condensed Matter Physics
Anna Maria Cherubini
Rector delegate for gender policies in UNILE – Adjunct Professor in Complex Systems Analysis
Sara Invitto
Adjunct professor in Cognitive Neurosciences
GEP Activities of UNILE
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“PROTAGONISTE”: UNILE goes against violence
This November, our RPO University of Salento, organises a series of events, dedicated to combating v...
November 7, 2022 -
UNILE publication: Spatial Olfactory Memory and Spatial Olfactory Navigation, Assessed with a Variant of Corsi Test, Is Modulated by Gender and Sporty Activity
Our colleague Sara Invitto and her colleagues from the University of Salento, recently published the...
September 20, 2022 -
The UNILE WIN event
The project acknowledges that gender stereotypes also exist in the business sector and that more wom...
August 17, 2022 -
UNILE invited us to the Annual Conference of the National Conference of the Equality Bodies of Italian Universities
In the context of the Annual National Conference of Equalisation Bodies of Italian Universities tha...
June 30, 2022 -
UNILE’s GEP is now officially approved and published!
Our CALIPER project partner, the University of Salento, officially published their approved Gender...
February 16, 2022 -
Annual Conference of the National Association of the Equality Bodies of the Italian Universities hosted by UNILE
Outcomes of the Annual Conference of the National Association of the Equality Bodies of the Italian ...
December 23, 2021 -
Annual Conference of the National Association of the Italian Universities Equal Opportunities Bodies
The Annual Conference of the National Association of the Italian Universities Equal Opportunities B...
June 25, 2021 -
Presentation of First Gender Report
On March 8, International Women’s Day, the University of Salento presented the first “Ge...
March 10, 2021 -
Gender Equality in Research: Training
The three half-day online training sessions (27th – 29th April 2020) were designed and carried...
May 19, 2020