First published in Research Europe (http://info.researchprofessional.com/research-europe/), 17 May 2018.
The great and the good of Italian science met in Rome last week, but politicians were nowhere to be seen.
It’s a question that has concerned Western society since the women’s liberation movement: is it really possible to be successful both at work and at home? When applied to women in the field of science, the question takes on various dimensions. We talked with Ilaria Capua, the Director of the Division of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, and Member of the Italian Parliament, about this challenge, the importance teaching women leadership skills and what the world learned from the Ebola outbreak.
Although the future of science in Europe is strongly debated, Horizon 2020 is still ongoing and the number of opening calls is increasing.
