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  • Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk in the EU – focus on Cyprus

    The European Institute for Gender Equality will the launch the study on estimating the numbers of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in Cyprus, Belgium, Greece, France, Italy and Malta. The event will take place on 25 June 2018 in Nicosia and is organised in cooperation with the Office of the Commissioner for Gender Equality of Cyprus. We will...

  • Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk in the EU – focus on Greece

    The European Institute for Gender Equality will launch the study on estimating the numbers of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in Greece, Belgium, France, Italy, Malta and Cyprus. The event will take place on 22 June 2018 in Athens and is organised in cooperation with Greek General Secretariat for Gender Equality . We will present our latest research...

  • GENERA Workshop: Focus on Policy (London,UK)

    Genera is a European project funded under Horizon 2020 to implement Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in physics research organisations. GENERA developed a range of evidence- and practice-based tools and recommendations to assist in the design and implementation of GEPs, which can be also applied to other related fields. The project started in September 2015 and is now ready to share...

  • Gender Summit 15 - London (UK)

    The 2018 Gender Summit in London is 15th in the series and the first for London. Like previous events it is led by influential science institutions, with the Science and Engineering South Consortium of leading universities as the principal partner. GS15 builds on past discussions and recommendations and tackles fresh gender issues, in the context of new concerns such as...

  • International Conference "Gender Differentiation in Media Industries"

    On 14 - 15 June, Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, will organize the international conference focusing on the processes of gender differentiation in the media industry. Departing from the finding about the lack of suitable epistemologies and methods to adequately address gender differentiation in the media, the conference introduces theoretical starting points of the feminist...

  • Second LERU Gender Conference

    UZH is proud to host the Second LERU Gender Conference on 14 - 15 June 2018. The disproportional loss of female talent in academia is evident and systematic almost without exception across disciplines, faculties, universities, and countries. Join us for this exciting opportunity to think and talk to each other about why this happens, and ways to stop it.

  • EIGE Delegation to France

    On 11 - 12 June 2018, EIGE will meet with gender equality stakeholders in Paris. On 11 June 2018, an open event with presentations and a panel discussion will be organised. Bilateral meetings will take place on 12 June. EIGE will present methods and tools that French colleagues could use to monitor and advance gender equality, Gender Equality Index and...

  • EIGE at Women Political Leaders Summit 2018

    This year's Women Political Leaders Summit will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 6-8 June. The WPL Summit is the foremost global gathering of female political leaders. This year's event is co-hosted by Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, and will bring together women Heads of State and Government, Ministers, Parliamentarians and Mayors from all over the world. The WPL Summit...

  • Gender-sensitive Parliaments Tool launch

    Gender-sensitive Parliaments Tool is an online tool designed as a self-assessment exercise measuring gender sensitivity of the national parliaments of the EU Member States. Its objectives: • to build competences of the public administration of the EU Member States in the area of gender equality, • to collect empirical data on participation of women and men in political decision-making and...

  • Journalist Thematic Network meeting - Vilnius, Lithuania

    EIGE's next Journalist Thematic Network meeting is coming up on 7 – 8 June in Vilnius. With the upcoming elections for the European Parliament in May next year, we will sharpen our focus to look at who holds the decision-making power in Europe. The format of this meeting will be a bit different from others. Instead of the usual 1.5...

  • EIGE at Regional Conference: The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans

    EIGE was recently invited to speak at the regional conference: The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans, taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, on 6-8 June. The conference aimed to create an opportunity to discuss and exchange views on the strategic choices and options for the future of the welfare state in the Region. It also sought to...

  • Workshop on gender-sensitive parliaments online tool

    EIGE has developed an innovative self-assessment tool that helps collect empirical data to measure the gender sensitivity of national parliaments, in terms of their organisational structures and work processes. Considering a range of key criteria, EIGE's online tool offers a way to asses and monitor gender equality in parliaments over times. We have worked together with a few Parliaments (Estonia...