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Equality through Research
EWI supports the development of academic and applied research projects on equality and the creation of business cases with women as protagonists. It has 13 professors whose main or partial research focus is on diversity management and female leadership.
Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism. The paper addresses …
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The awakening of the ‘killer’ fungi
On planet Earth, annually 6.5 million inhabitants suffer from a fungal infection and 3.8 million do not overcome it. In 1992, the Reference and Research Laboratory in Medical Mycology commenced its journey at the Carlos III Health Institute in Madrid.