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 […]

GENDERACTION webinars

Marina Angelaki In the context of its mutual learning and capacity building activities the GENDERACTION project organized a series of webinars for Horizon 2020 National Contact Points (NCPs) in 2018. The webinars aimed at enhancing the capacities of NCPs in addressing the gender priorities in research and within the different Horizon 2020 thematic areas, taking […]

EPWS on Horizon Europe

On 14th October European Platform for Women Scientists (EPWS) published its 1st Memorandum on the European Commission‘s Proposal for the next EU Research & Innovation Programme (2021-2027) Horizon Europe. Two later EPWS Memoranda will deal with other issues related to Horizon Europe. The Memorandum “Courageous Revolution speeds up Evolution – First EPWS Memorandum on the […]

Research infrastructures: video of webinar

On 26th October 2018 we´ve organised webinar on gender dimension and its relevance for research infrastructures in cooperation with RICH2020. Download the presentation (in PDF).  

Gender and health: video of webinar

On 15th of October 2018 we´ve organised together with HEALTH NCP-Net 2.0 webinar on health, demographic change and wellbeing. The webinar was led by Katrien Van der Heyden. Download the presentation (in PDF).