Quantum Technology training for policymakers - 2nd training series
The Quantum Flagship is offering a series of training sessions on Quantum Technology (QT), addressing policymakers at EU and national levels. The training has been designed in collaboration with EC policymakers accounting for their interests and needs.
The second training series consist of monthly online sessions from September 2024 to June 2025, each 60 minutes long with 30 minutes of presentations from experts and a 30-minute Q&A session. The sessions will be recorded and be made available on this page.
The training sessions will cover:
Click on the links below to be directed to the sessions and find more information.
Further training sessions will follow soon.
Contacts persons:
Oxana Mishina (CNR-INO) oxana.mishina@ino.cnr.it
Costanza Toninelli (CNR-INO) costanza.toninelli@ino.cnr.it
About the moderator:
Dr. Oxana Mishina obtained her PhD in physics from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. She conducted quantum experiment simulations at both the Niels Bohr Institute and the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory. Her contributions also extend to developing a theory for cooling and squeezing atoms at Saarland University. In her role as a physics education researcher at TU Braunschweig, she engaged in collaborative work with the University of Trieste, focusing on in-service teacher training in the field of quantum physics.
Oxana works as the Italian National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council CNR-INO within the Coordination and Support Action of the European Quantum Flagship. She contributes to the areas of education and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the European Quantum Technology community by creating and coordinating the QTEdu.eu community (>400 members), organising the Quantum Technology training for policymakers, coordinating the Equity&Inclusion working group at QTEdu.eu (>100 members) and being a member of the EDI WG since 2018. Oxana is also an experienced science communicator, having been a Quantum Ambassador in schools since 2015 and having organised and participated in numerous outreach events in France, Germany and Italy, such as the Italian Quantum Weeks, which developed 20 Italian cities.
1st session: Societal Challenges of QT in Europe
with Dr. Marcela Linkova, Head of Centre for Gender and Science at Czech Academy of Sciences
and Prof. Pieter Vermaas, Professor in Philosophy of Design and Quantum Technologies and Ethics Research Lead at Quantum Delta NL
moderated by Dr. Oxana Mishina, Quantum Physicist at National Institute of Optics CNR-INO
26 September 2024
11:00 CET - 12 :00 CET
Agenda
- Welcome to the second training series by Oxana Mishina
- Strategies towards gender balance and latest news from GENDERACTIONplus CSA by Dr. Marcela Linkova
- Addressing the Societal Challenges of QT Innovation - Vision Paper 2024 by Prof. Pieter Vermaas
- Q&A session
About the speakers:
Dr. Marcela Linkova is the Head of the Centre for Gender and Science at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Charles University, Prague. Her research focuses on the sociology of gendered organisations and institutional change, gender-based violence in academia, the governance of research, and public policies for gender equality in R&I. Marcela is the Member State Co-Chair of the ERA Forum Subgroup on Inclusive Gender Equality; she coordinates the Horizon Europe project GENDERACTIONplus and has participated in multiple Horizon 2020 gender equality projects.
Prof. Pieter Vermaas is an Associate Professor in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Department at Delft University of Technology. At Delft University, Pieter Vermaas contributed to the creation of the Dual Nature of Technical Artifacts research program (2000–2005), which analysed technical artefacts as having both structural and intentional natures, with functions playing a crucial role in relating these natures. From 2006 to 2010, he conducted research under an NWO VIDI fellowship on the use of functions and functional decompositions in engineering design methods. In 2017, he helped establish the Delft Design for Values Institute, which aims to incorporate moral, societal, and legal values into technology through design. His current research focuses on design and quantum technologies, specifically exploring how societal aims can be realised through design in accordance with codes of ethics.