Sharing knowledge and experience to improve the working conditions of women and strengthen equality is the main objective of the international conference ‘Women’s health and work' that the ETUI organises on March 4-6, 2015 at the ITUH in Brussels. The conference will touch on 6 areas organised in workshops of broad interest: health inequalities and division of labour; women workers...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is celebrating International Women's Day. The event will take place at EIGE’s premises in Vilnius, on 6 March, 2015. EIGE supports the Presidencies of the Council of the EU in delivering reports / research notes on the EU follow-up of the BPfA. Therefore, EIGE will present the findings of its Research Note on...
EIGE is having a meeting with Lithuanian NGOs and trade unions. The aim is to present EIGE's goals and activities on promoting gender eguality and to have a discussion about it. If you need more details about this meeting, please contact us at: rdc.info@eige.europa.eu
EIGE is having a meeting with women from different Lithuanian trade unions to present activities of EIGE and to provide the latest information about equality in Lithuanian labour market. If you need more details about this meeting, please contact us at: rdc.info@eige.europa.eu
Following the project’s successful kick-off conference in Brussels in April 2014, the European Gender Medicine consortium is now undertaking a series of workshops to assess the state of the art concerning sex and gender in European biomedical and health research and to develop a strategy for their further implementation. The goal of the European Gender Medicine (EUGenMed) project is to...
EIGE is organising this consultation meeting to present and discuss the content of EIGE's Database on Gender Statistics, its interface and functionalities as well as to assess the prospect of gender statistics production/dissemination. If interested to find out more about the outcome of the meeting, please contact its Project Manager at: ligia.nobrega@eige.europa.eu. If you want to search/browse the inital navigation...
The stakeholders consultation meeting on an updated gender equality glossary and thesaurus for the EU will take place in Brussels 25-26 February 2015. Draft agenda (.pdf)
The Conference on Healthy Lifestyles, organised by the Latvian presidency of the Council of the European Union will take place in Riga on 23-24 February. The aim of the conference is to assess the implementation progress of strategic documents on nutrition and physical activity in EU Member States and to discuss the future challenges in order to enhance the implementation...
The consultation meeting on “ good practices in the area of political decision making “which will take place on 19 th and 20 th February 2015 in Vilnius. This meeting is organised within the framework of EIGE’s work on good practices on gender mainstreaming. The event represents a key step in EIGE’s approach to the assessment of good practices in...