Taking place at the Association Jean Monnet in Paris, on 27 January 2012, and organised under the joint presidency of Isabelle Bénoliel (President of the Association Jean Monnet) and Henri Malosse (President of the Employers Group in the European Economic and Social Committee), this event will approach the presentation of projects considered to be good practices and which have taken...
The purpose of the seminar " Gender Perspective in the Evaluation of the European Social Fund" is to discuss the integration of gender in the evaluation of Structural Funds and to exchange good practices in Member States. The purpose is also to support the development of gender sensitive models and strategies in evaluation. The seminar is targeted to people who...
On 14 th December 2011, EIGE will participate in the workshop " L'esperienza insegna – Good practices in Structural Funds to promote work life balance and to tackle human trafficking”, organised by the Italian Department for Equal Opportunities. The workshop aims to share at national and international level results coming from a survey on good practices, developed by Italian Department...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) aims to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality including gender mainstreaming in all EU policies and the resulting national policies. Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender equality; it refers to the (re)organisation, improvement, development and evaluation of policy processes, so that a gender equality perspective is incorporated in...
According to its Regulation, EIGE has the task to develop a European network on gender equality. In this context, EIGE is hosting a consultation meeting on useful and effective networks, which will target different stakeholders and actors engaged on gender equality issues, with the purpose to discuss the work developed until now and the future steps.
The 7th Experts' Forum meeting took place in Vilnius on 15 and 16 November 2011. The meeting was dedicated to presenting the approuved EIGE's Annual Work Programme 2012 and discuss the main findings of EIGE's Second Ex-Ante Evaluation. Furthermore, at this meeting was discussed and gathered Experts' Forum Members views on (i) EIGE's work with Good Practices in Gender Mainstreaming...
For the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) “Making equality between women and men a reality for all Europeans and beyond” is what we strive to. The awareness of Gender Equality questions is very important and media are among the ways of creating awareness. EIGE is currently developing its Communication Strategy and invites media and communications persons for an important...
On 20-21 October 2011, in Cracow (Poland), the expert conference “Mechanisms for reconciling professional and family roles for women and men as a chance to actively participate in the labour market” took place. EIGE presented the results of the report on reconciliation of work, private and family life prepared in close cooperation with the Polish Government in support of the...
The fight against Trafficking in Human Beings (THB) is an important topic for the EU. Together with other EU agencies EIGE joint the 5th EU Anti-Trafficking Day held in Warsaw on October 18 under the slogan “ Together Against Trafficking in Human Beings.” The event organised under the auspices of the Polish Presidency brought together policy-level, law-enforcement and civil society...
The overall objective of the meeting is to enhance the capacities of EIGE's Operations staff in providing technical assistance to the EU institutions and Member States in the development of tools and methods for implementing GM policies.
The seminar will focus on important questions regarding the introduction of the dimension of Economy in the EU Gender Equality Index (EU GEI) How to include the dimension Economy in the EU GEI? How to measure it?