21st Experts' Forum Meeting will take place in Vilnius on 26 - 27 April 2018. Discussions and group work on different topics will take place at the meeting: we will present our new communication strategy and discuss opportunities for our cooperation, including the upcoming country visits and the upcoming Gender-sensitive parliaments tool we will discuss how the tools and methods...
On 24 - 25 April, EIGE will meet with gender equality stakeholders in Riga. On 24 April, an open event with presentations and a panel discussion will be organised at The Latvian School of Public Administration. Bilateral meetings will take place on 25 April. EIGE will present methods and tools that Latvian colleagues could use to monitor and advance gender...
The Experts’ consultation meeting on gender, youth and digitalisation will take place in Vilnius on 24 April 2018. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) supports the Presidencies of the Council ofthe EU in preparing reports on the EU monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPIA). For the forthcoming Austrian Presidency, we will develop a report on the opportunities...
9-13 April, 2018 – Turin, Italy How can organizations become gender responsive and transformative? The presence of more women does not automatically mean greater equality. This course analyses success stories and barriers, and goes deeper by looking at gender as part of an organizational change management strategy rather than as a stand-alone item on the agenda. ITC ILO workshop on...
I nvitation Debate (Spanish-french) Migrant women - Convention of Istambul. SIEMPRE aims to make visible and to strengthen the networks of Latina women in Europe and their contributions and points of view on women's rights, science, education, and culture.
Invitation to press briefing Predictions show that the EU will face a shortage of 70.000 ICT specialists by 2020, much due to the small number of women in these jobs. In Lithuania, 25% of ICT employees are women. This is not a lot, but actually much more than in most of the EU countries. The future does not look promising...
Only 17% of the almost 8 million people working in ICT in the EU are women. Strong gender divide in digital skills and gender-insensitive working conditions are just two factors that impede women from persuing a career in this area. EIGE prepared a presentation of the latest research on gender equality in the digital world and what can be done...
With the aim to strengthen synergies and cooperation, on 20-21 February 2018, EIGE organises an annual consultation meeting with Civil Society organisations. Given the positive feedbacks from last year’ experience, instead of bilateral annual consultation meetings with the civil society organisations, we are once again inviting our key civil society partners to a joint meeting. The meeting will bring together...
Officials from EU candidate and potential candidate countries (IPA) 1 will come together for the 7th time, in a meeting focused on EIGE's support to the advancement of gender equality in the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. The meeting is organised under the framework of EIGE’s Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance Project and brings together statisticians, gender equality policy officers and...
EIGE's Programme Coordinator on Gender-based Violence, Jurgita Pečiūrienė, is taking part in the II International Forum on FGM/C in the Gambia, where she is presenting findings from EIGE’s studies in the area. The meeting gathers lawyers, policy-makers, community and religious leaders, FGM stakeholders interested to find global solutions to this harmful practice. Agenda and more information about the event can...
Bucurestenii pot semnala discriminarile pe care le sufera in oras cu ajutorul unei harti interactive a discriminarilor urbane, pe care o pot accesa via site-ul www.discriminari-urbane.ro. Dupa succesul inregistrat de Harta discriminarilor urbane care a fost prezentata la Festivalul Femei pe Matasari si la Festivalul egalitatii de gen de la Sibiu, locuitorii Municipiului Bucuresti au acum la dispozitie o harta...
