The prize will be awarded to an IDA-member, who works towards increasing the gender equality within their field. The award winner has distinguished him- or herself within the following areas:

Highlighting highly educated women in technical and scientific disciplines
Promoting equality for highly educated women in technical and scientific discipline
A woman or man who has done something remarkable in and/or for technical and scientific disciplines.

The winner will be revealed at the conference “Diversity in Tech and Science” in the fall, where we shine a light on all the possibilities and challenges of creating inclusion and diversity within Science, Tech, Engineering and Mathematics.

And the nominees are...

IDA's committee has deliberated, and we can now reveal the three nominees for the Agnes & Betzy Award 2022.

Christine Ipsen
Associate Professor, DTU Management

This year we’ve received two different nominations of Christine Ipsen, both of which highlight her as a role model in a male dominated field due to her prowess as a researcher and as a highly skilled conveyor of her field of expertise: organizational behavior, occupational health, and management.
Christine has been engaged in the political work of increasing gender equality throughout DTU, as a part of an equity delegation and a committee for diversity and equity. As part of this work, Christine has arranged “Girls in Science”-day for several years. Furthermore, Christine has implemented that names are removed from all assignments for her classes to minimize unconscious bias, in regard to gender and nationality.

Agnes & Betzy Award 2022

Each year IDA awards a member with 25.000 DKK in the name of the first two danish female engineers Agnes Nielsen and Betzy Meyer. They graduated in 1897.