Initiative to promote women empowerment at UC brings together three dozen researchers in Luso

Empower and give tools to women researchers, in different stages of their careers. This was one of the main goals of the Bootcamp for Women Researchers @ UC, which brought together 30 female researchers from the University of Coimbra (UC) in an immersive training to "increase gender perspectives in all research processes". According to the Vice-Rector for Innovation and 3rd Cycle, Cláudia Cavadas, "we have some data that show that women tend to apply for less competitive funding" so the workshop is also dedicated to show the "advantages of empowering women in research".

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