Activities
Since our creation in late 2012, the WISE Office has been actively working on various projects:
- Monthly seminars with a gender focus given by women leaders in different fields
- Preparation of the CNIO Equality Plan in collaboration with Direction, Management and the Works Council
- Exhibitions with a gender perspective (eg “Marie Sklodowska-Curie. A Polish Woman in Paris”)
- Organization of events to promote Equal opportunities in SOMMa Centers
- Organization of science workshops for high school students accompanied by a mentoring session by CNIO scientists
- Presentations in schools and IES by CNIO scientists on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Events
2024
- María López de la Usada; Hamida Andisha and Jessica Louzame
Mujeres Sin Fronteras: Luchas y Esperanza desde Afganistán hasta España (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Registration - Rocío Hervella
What does coffee have to do with the CNIO?
Video - Nuria Oliver
My personal story in AI
Video - Mina Sohn
Power of listening to your inner voice
Video - Eleonora Viezzer
Nuclear fusion: Bringing the Sun down on Earth (this seminar will be held in English)
Video - Clara Montoya
Ignotas y Resueltas (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - H.E. Dr. Sarmila Parajuli Dhakal
Bridging Borders Through Science: Insights from Nepal
Video
2023
- Ana Maiques
Revolutionizing brain therapies from Barcelona to Boston – a story of entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector (this seminar will be held in English)
Video - Carme Riera
Cómo se escribe una novela
Video - Victoria Cirlot
Místicas en la Edad Media
Video - Chus Gutiérrez
Team Management from a Feminist Perspective (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Ana Losada, Nuria Malats, Francisca Mulero and CNIO Director Maria Blasco
Colloquium ‘Women leaders in science’
Video - Sara García Alonso
Sara García, la científica del CNIO que está a un paso de la luna
Video
2022
- Cristina Aranda Gutiérrez
La diversidad, la principal palanca de innovación
Video - Marina Echevarría
Retos del Derecho frente a la tecnología (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Irene Cano
an interview with Irene Cano, General Director of Meta Iberia, carried out by our Director, Maria Blasco
Video - Eva Orúe
Feria del Libro de Madrid: apocalípticos e integrados se encuentran en El Retiro
Video - Paloma Chen
Reflexiones desde una experiencia chino-española sobre la identidad
Video - International Women’s Day: A celebration of Dr Jane Goodall’s Life
A celebration of Dr Jane Goodall’s Life
Video - Gabriela Wiener
Espejos descoloniales (this seminar will be in Spanish)
Video - Fe López
Periodismo, mujer y deporte
Video - María Folguera
“Marta y María han de andar juntas”. Vivir entre la acción y las nubes (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video
2021
- Blanca Li
Estar en la acción (Coloquio entre Blanca Li, Directora de los Teatros del Canal y Maria Blasco, Directora del CNIO)
Video - María Pagés
Bailar necesita algo de talento y mucho trabajo (seminario online)
Video - Maria Purificación Neira
Salud pública en femenino (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Rigoberta Bandini
Dialogo con Rigoberta Bandini
Video - Marta Sanz
La escritura: un viaje por el cuerpo humano
Video - Zulema Altamirano Argudo
Trabajando en igualdad: empoderar, creer, transformar
Video - Cani Fernández
La Presencia de la Mujer en la Abogacía
Video - Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
Talento femenino y gestión de crisis
Video - ‘Women and Power’: mesa redonda con Mary Beard, Maria Blasco y Susana Torres
‘Women and Power’
Video - Gemma Robles
Prensa, ciencia y la deuda con Matilda (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Sara Giménez
Avanzar en igualdad de trato y oportunidades, aproximación al pueblo gitano
Video
2020
- Pepa Bueno
Periodismo y feminismo
Video - Marieta Jiménez Urgal
El potencial de la mujer como fuente de crecimiento y líder del proceso de transformación social
Video - Ana de Miguel
Filosofía y feminismo: si la filosofía lo mueve todo… ¿por qué encerró a las mujeres y cada filósofo puso su propio cerrojo?
Video - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Ciencia y Política (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Videov - Inés Cobo Calleja
The Prado Museum and Women Artists (this seminar will be held in Spanish) - Amelia Valcarcel
El don de la duda (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Laura Freixas
Cuando hablo de mí, hablo de vosotras… y de vosotros (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video
2019
- Maria José San Román
Mujeres en Gastronomia (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - María Pilar Allué Blasco
40 años de la incorporación de la mujer a la Policía Nacional (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Cheryl Smythe
Creating an inclusive environment (what, why and how)
First Gender Equality Event of the SOMMa Research Centres of Excellence - Susana Malcorra
Leadership in times of change
Video - Maria Hervas
La alquimia de un cuerpo que actúa (this seminar will be held in Spanish language) - Maria Luisa de Contes
Un proyecto para la igualdad de Género en las Empresas - Ruth Vera García
Mujeres en la Oncología (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Luz Casal
Aproximaciones a una biografía (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
more information - Rosa Montero
Women’s word (this seminar will be held in Spanish) - Consuelo Madrigal
La mujer profesional: el largo camino a la igualdad
Video
2018
- Marta Macho
Entre el suelo pegajoso y el techo de cristal: la realidad de las mujeres en el ámbito laboral
Video - Eulalia Pérez Sedeño
Conocimiento y estereotipos de género - Elvira Sastre
Escritoras, más allá del género y la biografía (The talk will be held in Spanish) - Laura González Molero
Atrévete a ser el rector de tu propia vida (this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Victoria Camps
La filosofía como instrumento de emancipación (Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish)
Video - Fátima Bosch
Translational Gene Therapy Approaches to Treat Metabolic and Neurodegenerative Diseases - Elisa Martín Garijo
Yes, we can
Video - Laura Ferrero Carballo
Decisiones racionales e irracionales: una breve historia de cómo llegué a ser escritora (Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish)
2017
- Margarita de Cos
El futuro de la mujer en nuestras manos (Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish) - Ana Requena
Micromachismos, el machismo cotidiano que condiciona la vida de las mujeres (Charla en Castellano- Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish) - Katharina Miller
Leave your comfort zone and be disruptive! - Natalia Flores Sanz
Situación del deporte femenino en España. Experiencia personal (Charla en Castellano- Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish) - Ana Botella
Experiencias de una mujer perteneciente a la generación de españolas que nacemos cuando todavía no existe una igualdad jurídica entre mujeres y hombres - María Ruiz and Clara Sanchís
“Una habitación propia” (Basada en discurso de Virginia Woolf/Based on Virginia’s Woolf speech), dirigida por/directed by María Ruiz e interpretada por/interpreted by Clara Sanchís. (Representación en Castellano/ this play will be held in Spanish) - Teresa Jurado and Mariano Nieto Navarro
How the current design of parental leaves is hampering the professional development of women. The ‘PLENTy of rights’ proposal - Belén Yuste y Sonnia L. Rivas-Caballero
Marie Sklodowska-Curie: Ella Misma (Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish) - María Angeles Durán
Medicine, health organization and care system. The changing boundaries
2016
- Christina Rosenvinge. Spanish singer-songwriter, actress and producer
30 years of work: my view on the politics and procedures of the Spanish and global music scenes/30 años de trabajo: mi visión en la política y procedimientos en la escena musical Española y global. - “Marie Sklodowska-Curie. A polish girl in Paris” at the CNIO
Marie Sklodwska-Curie: a polish girl in Paris. Exhibition. Rocaviva Eventos & CNIO WISE Office. 8-30 November – Exhibition “Marie Sklodwska-Curie: a polish girl in Paris” - Opening Talk: Marie Curie Exhibition
“Marie Sklodowska-Curie: Medical Phsycs pioneer and inspiration to female scientists”. Guadalupe Martín Martín. Radiofísica Hospitalaria/Medical Physicist. Servicio de Radiofísica /Medical Physics Service. Fuenlabrada University Hospital, Madrid, Spain. - Ángeles González-Sinde. Scriptwriter, Film Director. Former Spanish Minister of Culture
Out of focus: women and film (Fuera de foco: mujeres y cine). - Tánia Balló. Documentalist and Film Director, Barcelona, Spain
Las Sinsombrero, sin ellas la historia no esta completa (The seminar will be held in Spanish language). - María Teresa Fernández de la Vega. President of Women for Africa Foundation (Fundación Mujeres por África), Former Vicepresident of Spain
Recuerdos y olvidos feministas (Please note that this seminar will be held in Spanish). - Edurne Pasaban. Mountaineer, Tolosa, Spain. Women in Science Office Seminar Sponsored by Fundación Banco Sabadell
EXPEDITION TO SUCCESS: Achieving goals and overcoming difficulties. - Pilar Garrido. IRYCIS. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Lung cancer in women: a different disease?. - Margery Resnick. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US and International Institute in Madrid, Spain
In Her Own Voice: MIT’s Earliest Women Scientists. - María Concepción Ferreras. You Tube, Head of Partnerships, Southern Europe and Russia
Woman and Technology: a positive story.
2015
- Natalia González-Valdés. Corporate Communications and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Director of L’Oreal Spain
Women in Business and Science : two parallel paths. - María del Mar Martínez. Director at McKinsey’s Madrid Office, Spain
Women at the top: Making it happen. - Margarita Salas Falgueras. CBMSO, Madrid, Spain
My life with phage ø29. - Maria Carmen Vela Olmo. Secretariat of State of Research, Development and Innovation, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Madrid, Spain
A professional career with a gender perspective. - Flora de Pablo. CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Sex, Science and Society: a triangle that matters?.
2014
- Paula Inés Papp. AFI, Madrid, Spain
Women in Finance. - Margarita Alonso. Director of IE Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Women leadership, Advocacy or Diversity Management. - Martha Gray. Harvard-MIT HST; MIT EECS; Research Lab of Electronics; IMES, Cambridge, USA
What is it like to be a girl professor?. - Capitolina Diaz. University of Valencia, Spanish Association of Women in Science and Technology, Valencia, Spain
Networking and Career building in Science.