Presentations and Publications

Scientific Publications

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen / Breuer, Elke / Callies, Nathalie / Wolffram, Andrea (eds.) (2010): Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges. Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Science, Technology and Business, Opladen: Budrich UniPress (forthcoming).

• Breuer, Elke / Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (2010): Gender-Oriented Human Resources Development in International Cooperation – The Mentoring Programme TANDEMplusIDEA as a model of Best Practice. In: Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges. Gender and Diversity Perspectives in Science, Technology and Business, Opladen: Budrich UniPress, (forthcoming).

• Callies, Nathalie / Breuer, Elke (2010): Going Diverse 2009: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges. Bericht über die internationale Abschlusskonferenz des EU-Projektes TANDEMplusIDEA zu Gender und Diversity in Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft am 29.-30. Oktober 2009. In: Journal Netzwerk Frauenforschung, Nr. 26/2010, pp. 66-70.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (2009): Gender-Oriented Human Resources Development in International Cooperation – The Mentoring Programme TANDEMplusIDEA as a Model of Best Practice. In: Book of Abstracts, Conference “Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges”, pp. 21-32.

• Elke Breuer/Carmen Leicht-Scholten (2009): International Mentoring – A Model of Best Practice of Gender-Equal Human Resources Development. In: VDI – The Association of German Engineers (ed.), Gender and Diversity in Engineering and Science, Report 39, Düsseldorf, pp. 149-160.

• Elke Breuer/Carmen Leicht-Scholten (2009): Gender and innovation – Capacity building of female high potentials at technical universities, Paper for the 7th International Triple Helix Conference, 17-19 June 2009, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, CD-ROM.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (2009): Wissenschaftliche Personalentwicklung an Hochschulen – der Beitrag von Mentoring-Programmen als Element einer gendergerechten Personal- und Organisationsentwicklung. In: Heidrun Stöger, Elisabeth Ziegler, Diana Schimke (eds.), Mentoring: Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen / Wolf, Henrike (2009): Vergleichende Evaluation von Mentoring-Programmen für High Potentials mit disziplinärem Schwerpunkt. In: Heidrun Stöger, Elisabeth Ziegler, Diana Schimke (eds.), Mentoring: Theoretische Hintergründe, empirische Befunde und praktische Anwendungen.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (2008): Where is the Key to Success? A Comparative Evaluation of Mentoring Programmes for Outstanding Female Scientists in Natural Science, Engineering, Social Sciences and Medicine. In: Sabine Grenz et al. (eds.), Gender Equality Programmes in Higher Education. International Perspectives, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 163-178.

• Breuer, Elke: TANDEMplusIDEA - Vorbereitung auf europäische Karrieren. Erste Bestandsaufnahme des internationalen Mentoring-Programms, in: ADA-Mentoring. Fachzeitschrift für Mentoring und Gender Mainstreaming in Technik und Naturwissenschaften, Nr. 25, March 2009, pp. 11-13.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen (2007b): Challenging the leaky pipeline: Cooperation scheme between technical universities and research institutions for excellent female researchers. First results. In: Ingelore Welpe et al. (eds.), Gender and Engineering: Strategies and Possibilities, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pp. 175-189.

• Leicht-Scholten-Carmen (2007a): "IDEA League startet EU-Projekt für Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaftlerinnen". In: Journal Netzwerk Frauenforschung NRW Nr. 22.

• Breuer, Elke: “Gender-Oriented Human Resources Development in International Cooperation – The Mentoring Programme TANDEMplusIDEA as a Model of Best Practice”. Presentation at the final conference of the project TANDEMplusIDEA “Going Diverse: Innovative Answers to Future Challenges – International Conference on Gender and Diversity in Science, Technology and Business”, Aachen, 29-30 October 2009.

Presentations at Conferences

• Schaefli, Bettina / Breuer, Elke: “Steps towards equal gender representation: TANDEMplusIDEA - an international mentoring and personal development scheme for female scientists”. Presentation at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, Session “Women in Geosciences and 'What can EGU do for Women Geoscientists?'”, Vienna, 02-07 May 2010.

• Breuer, Elke: “TANDEMplusIDEA”. Presentation at the eument-net – International Workshop on Mentor Training and Coaching, Session “Identification of good mentors & matching process”, Haute Ecole Pédagogique Lausanne, 25-26 February 2010.

• Breuer, Elke: “Career development in science – The example of the mentoring programme TANDEMplusIDEA”. Expert input at the workshop “Supporting women's inroads into scientific organisations. Promoting change through experimentation: Mentoring as a tool to overcome obstacles for women in scientific careers”, Aarhus University, 16 February 2010.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “International Mentoring – A Model of Best Practice of Gender-Fair Human Resources Development”. Presentation at the 1st European Conference on Gender and Diversity in Engineering and Science, Verband Deutscher Ingenieure VDI, Düsseldorf, 11-13 September 2009.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Versus the Female Brain Drain – Personnel Development in a European Context”. Presentation at the 6th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Stockholm University, 05-08 August 2009.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Gender and innovation – Capacity building of female high potentials at technical universities”. Presentation at the 7th International Triple Helix Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 17-19 June 2009.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “International Mentoring for Female Scientists – Objectives and First Results”. Presentation at the 7th European Feminist Research Conference “Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics”, University of Utrecht, 04-07 June 2009.

• Breuer, Elke/Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Unterstützung europäischer Karrieren – Wissenschaftskulturen begreifen und verändern”. Presentation at the conference “Managing Gender and Diversity – Engendering Reflexivity and Change? University St. Gallen, 28-30 May 2009.

• Carmen Leicht-Scholten: “Gender Equal Human Resource Management at a Technical University.” Key Note at the conference “Women in Academia – Barriers and Good Practice” Aarhus University, 18-19 May 2009.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: Gender- und Diversity-Management – Zukunftskonzept für exzellenten wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs! Presentation held at the workshop "Exzellente Kooperationen von Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft für den weiblichen Fachkräftenachwuchs", organised by competence centre “Technik-Diversity-Chancengleichheit e.V, Bielefeld” on behalf of the Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia for Generations, Family, Women and Integration, 5 December 2008, Aachen.

• Breuer, Elke: “TANDEMplusIDEA - Mentoring auf internationaler Ebene”. Presentation at the Annual General Meeting of Ada-Lovelace-Mentoring e.V. 2008, Dortmund, 27 November 2008.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Erfolgsstrategien zur Rekrutierung und Bindung weiblicher High-Tech-Potenziale an der Schnittstelle Studium – Beruf”. Presentation at the Symposium “Ingenieurkultur und Geschlechterrollen”, Institut für Frauenforschung und Gender-Studien, University of Applied Sciences Kiel, 20 November 2008.

• Breuer, Elke: “TANDEMplusIDEA – International Mentoring and Networking in Europe”. Presentation at the Women’s Worlds Conference 2008, Session “Perspectives on Technology and the Construction of Gender”, Madrid, 07 July 2008. More...

• Breuer, Elke: “Mentoring auf internationaler Ebene – TANDEMplusIDEA”. Presentation at the Mentoring Clubnight “Karriereplanung mit Visionen – Persönlichkeiten und Potenziale“, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 26 June 2008. More...

• Asli-Juliya Weheliye: “TANDEMplusIDEA - Development Programme for Female Scientists in Science and Engineering”. Poster presentation at the EPWS Annual Conference 2008 “Women Shaping Science”, Vilnius, 5-7 June 2008.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Mentoring als Instrument einer geschlechtergerechten Personalentwicklung” Presentation at the Mentoring-Workshop at the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Karlsruhe, 18 April 2008.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Exzellenz braucht Vielfalt” Presentation at the Exzellenzcluster „Rebirth”, Institut für Mehrphasenprozesse, Hannover, 27 November 2007.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Mentoring in Europa - TANDEMplusIDEA”. Presentation at the meeting of Forum Mentoring e.V., Berlin, 19 November 2007.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Best practice examples. Gender and diversity management at the Technical University of Aachen. Gender issues in Science and Engineering”. Presentation at the European Computer Science Summit / 3rd Annual Informatics Europe Meeting 2007, Berlin, 08-09 October 2007.

• Leicht-Scholten, Carmen: “Where is the key to success? A comparative evaluation of mentoring programmes for excellent female scientists in natural science, engineering, social sciences and medicine.” Presentation at the 5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education, Berlin, 28-31 August 2007.