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Comments made about us by our Partner organisations at the Equalitec Diversity Forum events, which promoted diversity best practice. They were hosted for Portia by the Royal Academy of Engineering








Established 1997
   

Portia has a proven record of delivering projects and forming effective partnerships with a wide variety of stakeholders to maximise impact and valorisation.

See the organisations that we have successfully worked with in the past on our PARTNERS page.

Portia's projects have addressed problems and opportunities in education, innovation, individual career paths, employment, recruitment, corporate and institutional diversity and more.

We deliver our projects with the overarching goal of promoting greater and more equal appreciation of and engagement in Science Engineering and Technology to drive positive social change.

To find out more about some of our projects see our SUCCESSES page.

Portia has experience of delivering European projects. Portia delivered Equalitec: Advancing Women in ITEC for the European Union's European Social Fund Equal Programme. Portia co-ordinated 23 development partners to deliver the project. Portia financially co-ordinated the project: the budget was £1.8m, 50% match funding. Please contact info@portiaweb.org.uk to explore building consortia for European projects.

If you or your organisation would like to discuss working in partnership with Portia, please contact info@portiaweb.org.uk

 

 


     
 
Meeting of European science leaders on the gender dimension in science
 ‘How can European Science benefit from taking integrated action on gender’

10 May 2010
14 leading science leaders from around Europe will meet in Paris to continue discussion on the gender dimension in science.  The meeting follows on the deliberations that have taken place at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London on 25-26th March and in Berlin on 29-30th April.   Among the issues they will address is the persistent concern of how to remove gender inequalities and biases in recruitment, retention, and advancement of men and women; how to ensure fairness and prevent gender bias in assessment of scientists’ work; how to make research process sensitive to factors related to gender and sex; and how to make sure that science knowledge-making and the science value system recognises when claims to knowledge are based on wrong assumptions about the nature and role of gender and sex.

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Kidzone Website launched by Hackney Pupils
28 April 2010
Eight pupils from East London's Olympic borough Hackney celebrated the launch of the website they had created for their age group with software development company, ThoughtWorks. The project was delivered by a partnership of Portia, Hackney Learning Trust SATH and ThoughtWorks.
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Portia promotes European Code of Best Practice for Women in ICT
01 September 2009
Portia is pleased to support the Information Society and Media Directorate General's Code of Best Practice for Women in ICT. Portia has invites its partners and supporters to sign up to the code, in recognition of their contribution to supporting women in ICT.
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