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Innovative approaches for organizing an inclusive optics and photonics conference in virtual format

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2023

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Heras, Alba de las
Gómez Varela, Ana Isabel
Tomás, María-Baralida
Sánchez, Luis Alberto
Gallazzi, Francesca
Santamaría, Beatriz
García Lechuga, Mario
Vinas María
Delgado Pinar, Martina

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MDPI
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The COVID pandemic is forcing the renewal of scientific conferences, offering opportunities to introduce technological and inclusive developments. Our analysis focuses on the implementation of inclusive practices for female and early-career researchers in a virtual scientific conference. This organization approach was applied in the XIII Spanish Optical Meeting (RNO2021), which was also characterized by avatars interacting in an online metaverse. The effectiveness of inclusive policies and novel technological tools was evaluated using the participation data and a post-conference survey. Our study reveals the high impact of inclusive actions and a strong interest in the scientific community to explore conference advances.

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Gender and science, Metaverse experience, Optics and photonics, RNO2021, Virtual conference

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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación / Institute of Smart Cities - ISC / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren

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