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The conference was meant to go in conformity with the current research system and science policy reforming processes in  Lithuania to meet contemporary challenges of science. One of the conference sessions was devoted to the social dimension of science policy-gender equality in science. Among key speakers of the conference were representatives of EIGE, member of ERAB Zaneta Ozolina, special assistant to the President of Stanford University for federal research policy and former Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) prof. Arthur Bienenstock (USA), outstanding researches and Lithuanian science policymakers.