Nordic network of Women in Physics

Nordic Network of Women in Physics (NorWiP) was established in 2005. It is a network of female physicists in Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden. In addition, Russia is represented as the first of the neighboring countries towards east. Norwip serves as an umbrella organization for the existing national networks for women in physics in the Nordic countries; Netværk for Kvinder i Fysik in Denmark, Nettverk for Kvinner i Fysik in Norway and Women in Physics in Sweden.

The objectives of the Nordic Network of Women in Physics is to significantly strengthen the recruitment, education and career possibilities of Nordic female students and young researchers. In order to achieve this, partial goals of the network include:

• To train, encourage and retain female Ph.D. students and post.docs.
• To allow students and young researches to find female advisors, mentors and role models in their field and to allow female physicists at all career stages to exchange information and experiences and to establish contacts to other female physicists in the Nordic countries.
• To increase the visibility of nordic female physicists and to maintain an open database of women researchers in physics in the Nordic countries.
• To identify gender barriers in the career paths of women in physics and to work toward removing such barriers.
• To facilitate international networking by developing contacts with women in physics organizations around the world.

The first in history meeting of the Nordic Network of Women in Physics took place in Bergen, Norway, August 8-10 2005 in connection with the World Year of Physics 2005.

Nordic Network of Women in Physics is open to anyone who feels that she/he belongs to a Nordic network of physics and who supports the basic ideas of the network, to work towards equal participation and equality of women and men within physics.

It is now possible to register in our data base of women in physics. Go to registration. You can also search the database.