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From shared challenges to practical action: the GENDERACTIONplus2027 Community of Practice launches in Brussels

We are excited to announce that the GENDERACTIONplus2027 Community of Practice (CoP) will launch on 23 and 24 September, when members meet in Brussels to begin their work together. The launch will bring its two Circles, one for national authorities and one for research and innovation funding organisations, together to identify their needs, exchange expertise and set priorities for their first year of collaboration. The CoP is a central part of GENDERACTIONplus2027. It provides a trusted space for policy coordination, peer learning, mentoring and practical support, helping members translate commitments to inclusive gender equality into concrete policies and measures. The launch meeting will explore the different national and organisational contexts in which members are working. Through an initial needs assessment, participants will identify implementation challenges, promising practices, available expertise and areas where further support is needed. It will also give the two Circles an opportunity to meet, begin shaping how...

GENDERACTIONplus2027 is underway: follow our journey

GENDERACTIONplus2027 has officially begun! Over the next two years, the Horizon Europe project will bring together national authorities, research funding organisations, researchers and other stakeholders to advance inclusive gender equality across the European Research Area (ERA). Coordinated by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the project builds on the expertise, experience and established Community of Practice developed through GENDERACTIONplus and GENDERACTION. At the centre of the project is a simple but important question: how can policy commitments on inclusive gender equality be translated into concrete measures and policies? Through its Community of Practice, GENDERACTIONplus2027 will support peer learning, mutual exchange and co-creation among national authorities and research funding organisations. The project will also develop practical guidance on intersectionality, monitor actions and measures taken at the national and research funder level to advance policy, and support gender mainstreaming in selected ERA priorities. All these resources will be...

Learn more about GENDERACTIONplus2027 activities and new developments and highlights about gender equality policies in R&I in the EU. The newsletter is published twice a year.

 

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