UNESCO’s "Global Monitoring Report on Education for All (2006)" shows a clear connection between illiteracy and prejudice against women. Click here to read more about the differences between women and men in terms of education and training in EIGE's Gender Equality Index.
To strengthen the input into the report and debates on human rights of women in the EU, EIGE is calling a meeting of experts in the areas of implementing human rights instruments, ensuring equality and non-discrimination in law and in practice in the EU, women’s access to justice. It aims to discuss the achievements as well as challenges to promoting...
Transgender, Gender Identity and Expression - Training for EIGE-staff members TGEU gave a training for EIGE-staff members on August 27 2014 in Vilnius on issues pertaining to transgender, gender identity and expression. Transgender Europe is a European human rights NGO working for the human rights and equality of all trans people. More Information: www.tgeu.org
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) invites you to participate in the online discussion “ Functionality and design of EIGE’s database on gender statistics”. EIGE has been developing and collecting several gender statistics datasets, which are currently being conceptually and technically merged into a unique database on gender statistics - a centralised source of data and statistics on gender...
The Event will address outcomes of the 2014 European Parliament elections from a gender perspective and aims to evaluate the impact of the Parity Democracy and EWL 50/50 Campaign, which aims at reaching Parity Democracy quantitatively and qualitatively. Newly elected MEPs, governmental bodies, academics, NGOs and journalists will find answers to questions like: How to ensure elected women are in...
The key aim of GS4EU is to promote a standards-based and systematic operationalization of gender in research and innovation process as a core quality condition in study design, research content, and processes, in order to foster smarter, sustainable, and effective European science endeavour. The Gender Summits are dedicated to supporting and advancing excellence and effectiveness of research and innovation at...
The summit will focus on the cross-cutting role of gender and how gender has been and should be integrated within some of the major themes of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme, such as personalised health, water resources, energy, environment, transportation. Speakers and participants will examine the latest research evidence and showcase studies and projects, organisations and strategies that have significantly...
We invite you to engage in a discussion on the priorities for the European Institute for Gender Equality, on its future work on gender-based violence. We hope that EIGE’s stakeholders will bring forward the ideas, information and analysis from Member State and European level to shape these priorities. In order to be able to participate, please click on Join Event...
Dear Member of EuroGender, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is inviting you to participate in a tender for the collection of gender equality policy documents and grey literature from Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Finland. The tender is announced on EIGEs website EIGE's RDC - Collection of gender equality policy documentation and grey literature...
The 4th ATGENDER Spring Conference: Setting a New Agenda for the Equality Policies will take place on 25-27 June 2014, hosted by Barcelona Provincial Council in the Francesca Bonnemaison Centre. Since 2010 ATGENDER has established a tradition of organising spring conferences dedicated to research and teaching/learning in Women, Gender and Feminist Studies, as well as to activism, policy making, and...
The European Commission is holding an information and networking meeting, bringing together all on-going projects on gender equality in economic decision making and on the gender pay gap, funded in the framework of PROGRESS. The aim is to get an overview of the progress of the projects, share experiences and exchange good practices. EIGE will be represented by Ana Sofia...
The consultation meeting "From Practices with Potential to Good Practices in the area of Women's Entrepreneurship" will take place in Vilnius on 19-20 June 2014. 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 dissemination of good practices in gender mainstreaming and...