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WOMEN & WORK PRIZE FOR of AAP and download the papers for a fee that rants a long-terms rain resistance de-
will directly benefit the author of the paper. The
pending on the weather and the un-
FEMALE INVENTORS process of identification, quality check, publica- derground, at least 6 weeks up to a
tion and financial handling will be organized
whole gardening season. In contrast,
by a team in both Berlin and the institution in slug poison pellets work only half a
There are many women who have made important contribution to society, economics and the partner country and through crowd-voting
industry through great inventions. Nevertheless there is a huge unused invention potential, mechanisms, via App and peer-review system.
particularly with women. Thus the women & work prize for female inventors was awarded
at the iENA forum of the iENA 2017 for the first time. The winners of the female inventors’ On one hand AAP will give graduates a chance
prize of 2017 are: to receive a compensation/income for their
work as well as empower them to continue their
academic carrier. On the other hand, AAP will of-
fer researchers outside Africa/MENA a chance to
enrich their knowledge on the region through
genuine first-hand information.

week or less, if it’s raining.

Dr. Julia Borggräfe (Category: Service
& Social)

Dr. Julia Borggräfe has developed and
implemented a compensation model
for equal pay for systematically analyz-
ing factors of importance for determin-
ing gender-neutral compensation that is
equitable for the tasks to be performed.
Sonja Andjelkovic (Category:
Business model & organization) Nadine Sydow (Category: Technology) The review of pay equality at Messe Ber-
lin analyzed the extent to which jobs
Ms. Andjelkovic was awarded for her Ms. Sydow was awarded for her invention Slux- are equivalent in terms of their actual
project Afara Academic Publishing. AAP agon which is a painting that prevents slugs requirements, independently of the in-
is an innovative social entrepreneurship and snails from sticking to any vertical barrier. dividuals who carry them out. In the
initiative that is aiming at publishing em- Thus, it saves your plants & veggies from be- first step, we identified jobs that are car-
pirical research papers from university ing eaten by them! Simply apply the tensidic ried out mostly by women or mostly by
graduates from Africa/MENA region on oil mixture with a brush on your favorite pot- men. This was done by first compos-
an online platform that will be hosted in tery, your raised flower bed, a lawn edging or ing three comparison pairs which were
Berlin, Germany. whatsoever, let it dry until it is transparent and each classified at the same or roughly
witness the slugs to rail climbing onto these the same. Equivalence was established
Official partner is the Free University of surfaces. by using e.g. Check [English:”pay equal-
Berlin (FU Berlin). Interested researches ity. Check”], which is a recognized gen-
on the region, e.g. universities, interna- Sluxagon works like a soapy slide for snails, der-neutral evaluation system that we
tional organizations, libraries, research because their mucus frees the embedded adapted to the specific in-house condi-
networks etc. can browse the data base tensides. The natural oil-based matrix war- tions in the second step.

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