ERA of Inclusive Gender Equality

Keeping the Momentum, Addressing Challenges through Joint Action

The conference is organised by Horizon Europe GENDERACTIONplus project under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 

Date: 13 February 2024 from 9:00 am CET to 5:00 pm CET
Venue: BOSA, WTCIII building, 30 rue Simon Bolivar, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

The conference will be streamed for online attendance. 

Please follow this link in case you are attending the conference online.

Registration for onsite attendance closed on 31 January, for online attendance it closes on 6th February.

The conference will bring together relevant stakeholders to discuss the future priorities for inclusive gender equality in the European Research Area. This will be done against the backdrop of the results of GENDERACTIONplus benchmark studies on gender equality policy implementation in European research, which have identified ongoing challenges and gaps and highlighted advances achieved in recent years. The debates will highlight the need for advancing intersectional and inclusive approaches to gender equality policy, focusing on creating an inclusive research environment through institutional change and improving the quality and social relevance of research and innovation by integrating the gender dimension into its content research and innovation. The outcomes of the conference will serve to contribute to the debates on the future ERA policy agenda and, ultimately, the next European framework programme for research and innovation.

To inform the debates about further actions and measures at the conference, GENDERACTIONplus issued a position paper on the future of gender equality in the European Research Area. You can find the PDF version here.

Preliminary agenda

8:30	Registration on site
9:00	Welcome and introduction to the conference Conference host: Moa Persdotter, Vinnova
9:10	Conference Opening Marijke Weewauters, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Institute for Equality for Women and Men
9:30	Recent advances and continued gaps in policy design and implementation:  Main findings from GENDERACTIONplus policy benchmarking  Marcela Linková, project coordinator
9:45	Audience engagement
10:00	From gender to gender+ equality: Intersectionality and inclusiveness in R&I  Panellists: Fredrik Bondestam, UniSAFE Heidi Holt Zachariassen, GENDERACTIONplus  Rachel Palmén, INSPIRE  Helene Schiffbänker, GRANteD   Moderator: Eva Sophia Myers
10:45	Comfort break
11:15	Toward inclusive gender+ approaches: Looking ahead toward FP10  Panellists: Geneviève Almouzni, Chair of the Working Group on Gender and Diversity, European Research Council Sophia Ivarsson, Vinnova, the head of the GENDERACTIONplus RFO Community of Practice Sergej Možina, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the EU and ERA Forum MS Co-Chair Anne Pépin, Gender Sector Team Leader, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission Silvia Penati, CoARA, Scientific Leader of the Working Group on Inclusive Evaluation of Research TIER Moderator: Marcela Linková
12:15	Moderated discussion with the audience
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Toward an inclusive research environment: Synergising existing instruments to advance inclusive gender equality  Panellists: Fredrik Bondestam, Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research Izaskun Lacunza, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Jennie Rothwell, Higher Education Authority Emer Cahill, Irish Research Council Janka Kottulová, SAVIA Moderator: Heidi Holt Zachariassen, Kif Committee
14:30	Research and innovation quality through Inclusive gender analysis in R&I  Panellists: Lydia González Orta, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology Helene Schiffbänker, Joanneum Research Sophia Ivarsson, Vinnova Silvia Bottaro, European Commission, CoARA Working Group on Improving practices in the assessment of research proposals Moderator: Moa Persdotter, Vinnova
15:30	Comfort break
16:00	Maintaining the momentum  Panellists: Marcela Linková, MS Co-Chair, ERA Forum Subgroup on Inclusive Gender Equality Anne Pépin, Gender Sector Team Leader, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission Elena Phalet, BELSPO Anna Wahl, Royal Institute of Technology Moderator: Moa Persdotter, Vinnova
17:00	End of event