The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic launched the first call for applications in the SIGMA programme. The programme contains a specific call for the inclusion of women in the IT sector. The gender dimension of research and team diversity are among the evaluation criteria of project proposals. The Czech Science Foundation needs more women in its evaluation panels. Please, consider applying and/or helping spread the call!
We are happy to welcome a new member to the family of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects focused on gender equality in R&I. The project INSPIRE, started in October 2022, aims to be Europe’s sustainable centre of excellence, globally renowned for the quality of its research and analysis produced on inclusive gender equality in research and innovation. The project will provide a gateway for scholars, equality experts, practitioners and trainers to connect and share resources, co-create new ones, and link strategically with public and private institutions to benefit the European Research Area. INSPIRE’s research programme will develop new indicators for inclusive GEP design, conduct a GEP monitoring survey throughout Europe and identify key configurations of GEP success and failure. It will also fill critical knowledge gaps on the basis of case studies on intersectional policies whilst identifying promising practices in gendered regional innovation policy. By doing this, INSPIRE aims...
On 13 October, the Higher Education Authority in Ireland launched its implementation plan for years 2022 – 2024. The actions set out in the plan respond to the recommendations that emerged from the National Surveys of Staff and Student Experiences of Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish HEIs, which were conducted by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) at the request of the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. The delivery of the actions in this plan is intended to build on and complement the broad range of initiatives ongoing across the sector towards the outcomes set out in the national policy framework published in 2019; ‘Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive: Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions, (often referred to as the ‘Framework for Consent’), and accompanying institutional action plans. The HEA is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the framework, and HEIs...
A new amendment of the Spanish law on R&I brings alignment with the EU framework by including the institutional change to support inclusive and gender-sensitive environments (i.e., free from gender bias, discrimination, sexist behaviour and sexual harassment) and the integration of the gender dimension in research projects and sex/gender analysis in content. The National Plan for R&I will require a gender assessment report, and the Spanish R&I public institutions will have to develop GEPs and sexual/sexist harassment protocols with annual monitoring. The amendment also promotes gender expert advice in evaluation committees, requests implementation of positive actions targeting women (particularly at the highest level of the research career) and requires that gender equality criteria be included in public procurement. The law also obligates the integration of intersectionality in the design of GE policies and in the content of research, innovation and knowledge transfer. Also, the gender award scheme for R&I centres...
GENDERACTIONplus appointed its members of the Advisory Board. The AB consists of 5 experts and/or stakeholders, reflecting project values, priorities, key topic areas and target audiences. We are happy that our invitation to become GENDERACTIONplus AB members accepted Sergej Mozina, the co-chair of the ERA Forum, Yvonne Benschop from Radboud University, Adrien Braem, Senior Policy Officer, responsible for ERA policies and gender and diversity at Science Europe, Jörg Müller from the Open University of Catalonia and a member of our Horizon Europe sister project INSPIRE focused on research and analysis on inclusive gender equality in research and innovation. Last but not least, the member is Ágota Dávid, a science attaché at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU.
Two communities of practice (CoPs) will work on advancing gender equality in the European Research Area in GENDERACTIONplus project. The work of policy CoP consisted of representatives of national authorities is organised through WP topics. The RFO CoP will create Working Groups that will focus on key topics identified by CoP members. At the end of August, the RFO CoP Working Groups (WG) leaders were appointed: The RFO CoP brings together 51 members, expert partners and allied partners.
The GENDERACTIONplus project builds on the Horizon 2020 project GENDERACTION implemented from 2017 to 2021, the work of the Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (SWG GRI) and the work of the FORGEN Community of Practice of RFOs developed in the ACT project implemented 2018 to 2021. Learn more about us here or watch the video:
