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P-056"Hands on for a sustainable change"Ewa Gunnarsson, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden- mainstreaming gender competence and practice in a technically advanced innovation systemThis contributtion draws on our experiences from an ongoing three years gender integration and competence research- anddevelopment project in a complex and technically advanced innovation system. The project is integrated in the Faste Laboratorya Swedish VINN-excellence center. The innovation system incorporates 8 industrial companies and 6 academic divisions atLuleå university of Technology. The project is part of the VINNOVA TIGER programme (Applied Gender Research for strongresearch and innovation environments). A strategy to strengthen the fulfillment of gender mainstreaming in strong research andinnovation environments.Our experiences show that combining gender science with participatory action methods are necessary to promote an increasedmainstreaming sustainability. The strategy is to use both gender science and participatory action oriented methods. Researchersand actors in the innovation system together work with joint reflecting learning processes to enable the system actors toincreasingly own and take over the mainstreaming process. A strategy to create a greater sustainability and survival of theprocess when the project is finished.Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 2010135