1st GENDERACTION traineeship

On 10-12 December 2018 Veronika Fajmonova from Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports visited Ministry of Science and Culture in Hanover (Germany). She participated on several meetings and workshop, learned about the experience with implementation of gender equality measures and gained new knowledge about the processes and achieved benchmarks. “I´ve got a lot of support […]

Gender Equality Plan: How to?

In February 2019, LIBRA is offering a 2-day workshop to share our experiences in “How to design, implement and follow-up a Gender Equality Plan”, supporting research organisations to remove institutional barriers and empower all genders to be equally successful in their field and to ensure that the outcomes of the organisation’s research is relevant to […]

Best-practice event of EU funded projects

3rd mutual learning workshop aimed at best-practice exchange focusing on EU-funded projects on structural change. Date: 25 March 2019 | 12.00 – 18.30 & 26 March 2019 | 9.00 – 14.00 Venue: Berlin | Harnack Haus PROGRAMME PHOTO GALLERY REPORT Best-practice exchange workshop aims to get together around 60 persons from different groups not sufficiently […]

Integrating the Gender Dimension in Research

New booklet of Kilden «What is the Gender Dimension in Research?» presents case studies from a variety of scientific fields such as: Health and well-being Food, agriculture and fisheries Energy Transport Environment and climate Safe societies   Download the booklet in PDF here.

Improve Horizon Europe through a gender perspective

Recomendations of the conference Women in Science held on 25 September 2018 in European Parliament: 1/ TO INTEGRATE GENDER EQUALITY AS A CROSS-CUTTING PRIORITY 2/ TO EMBED GENDER EQUALITY IN THE PROGRAMME STRUCTURE 3/ TO SECURE GENDER BALANCE IN RESEARCH TEAMS AT ALL LEVELS 4/ TO FOSTER GENDER BALANCE IN THE DECISION-MAKING BODIES 5/ TO […]

Angela Wroblewski at ERAC workshop

Angela Wroblewski presented analysis on implementation of ERA´s priority 4 “gender equality and gender mainstreaming” in National action plans at ERAC worshop on December 5th. Here you can download the presentation (in PDF).

SWGGRI on Advancing Gender Equality in ERA

ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation released a Report on the implementation of Council Conclusions of 1 December 2015 on Advancing Gender Equality in the European Research Area. The survey on implementation of the CC reveals important differences among EU-15, EU-13 and Associate Countries as well as between Strong Innovators and […]

Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

The publication of the Guidance on the implementation of PlanS puts flesh on the bones of earlier statements about this potential transformation in scholarly publishing. Download the guidance here (in PDF).

Gender Equality in Irish Higher Education

Ireland has published a Gender Equality Taskforce Action Plan for Higher Education 2018-2020. Under the Initiative new and additional female-specific senior academic positions will be created in the Higher Education sector. Gender Equality Taskforce Action Plan for Higher Education 2018-2020 (donwload in PDF). Press release (here). Performance of higher education institutions in addressing gender inequality will […]

Our 2nd newsletter is out!

We´ve published 2nd newsletter. Since the last newsletter we successfully organized seven webinars for Horizon 2020 National Contact Points (NCPs) with one still ahead of us before the end of the year. We published widely and positively received Policy Brief Series on gender in the proposal for the new framework program Horizon Europe. In September […]