Building on two highly successful convenings held in?2018?and?2019?in Nairobi and Dakar respectively, GoFoWiSeR 2020 will be held on the margins of the?Next Einstein Forum (NEF)’s Global Gathering 2020. ?NEF Global Gathering is the largest science and innovation gathering on the African continent, held every two years. #NEF2020 will be held in Nairobi from?March 10-13, 2020?with more than 2000 delegates expected to attend including Heads of States and ministers. With GoFoWiSeR seeking to improve the experiences and increase the numbers of particularly emerging women scientists, #NEF2020 is an exceptional platform to accelerate this objective.

On March 11 and 12, GoFoWiSeR 2020 will convene stakeholders including young women scientists, established senior women scientists, research funders and heads of institutions to share and discuss the strategies that are working in catalyzing connections and strengthening the networks of actors working to bring the gender gap in STEM. In addition, #GoFoWiSeR2020 seeks to showcase some outcomes of its previous convenings by spotlighting some lessons from previous participants which can be scaled up.

GoFoWiSeR 2020 postponed

Out of an abundance of caution and informed by the growing risks and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, we take the difficult but necessary decision to postpone GoFoWiSeR2020 to a later date.

At this point we judge it to be in all our interest to not bring together over 400 participants from across the globe for the event and we hope you understand. We will communicate the new dates for the event as soon as the threat of COVID-19 dissipates and we appreciate your understanding in the meanwhile.