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  • EIGE's 2017-2019 Single Programming document

    EIGE’s fourth Multi Annual Work Programme aims to build on the Institute’s capacities to provide good quality, unique evidence and data to assist policy makers working in gender equality and related sectors across the European Union and beyond. This document now rolls over into 2019 and includes proposals for continuation of the work into the next programming period. EIGE will...

  • Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk

    This tender is announced with a view to selecting the best proposal for the implementation of the study ‘Female genital mutilation: estimating girls at risk’ in six selected Member States. The study will contribute to EIGE’s efforts to undertake regular Female Genital Mutilation risk estimations and trend assessments, ensuring comparability of data across EU Member States. If needed, the study...

  • Traineeships - Gender equality

    Introduction The European Institute for Gender Equality [1] (EIGE) announces traineeship opportunities lasting up to six months [2] for graduates who are either nationals of an EU member state or an EFTA country or an IPA qualifying country [3]. The traineeships shall be based at the Institute's premises in Vilnius, Lithuania. The registration of applications will begin on 11 November...

  • Administrative data collection on violence against women: Good practices

    Violence against women (VAW) is a violation of human rights. Its very nature deprives women of their ability to enjoy fundamental freedoms. Increasingly over the last decade, EU Member States have announced policies, and to a lesser degree services, intended to reduce or eliminate VAW. These policies are built, explicitly or not, on theories of change reflecting causal assumptions that...

  • Researcher - Gender-based violence

    The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) [1] is organising a call for applications with a view to establishing a reserve list for a Researcher – Gender Based Violence. The registration of applications will begin on 11 November 2016 and will close on 11 December 2016 at 13:00 Eastern European Time. The deadline for applications has been prolonged until 16...

  • Framework contract for Public Relations Support Services

    EIGE seeks to conclude a framework contract with professional company/ies capable of providing a wide range of services related to the production, maintenance and monitoring of its public relations. Correction notice: Conditions for opening of tenders: Instead of: Date: 09/12/2016 Time: 15:00 Date: 12/12/2016 Time: 15:00

  • Promoting gender equality in academia and research institutions: Main findings

    Over the last 15 years, continuous and cumulative steps have been made to advance gender equality in research and higher education institutions in the European Union. Despite these efforts, and although progress can be noticed, there is still work to be done because literature and statistics provide evidence that: research and higher education institutions are gendered settings; unconscious or implicit...

  • Gender Equality in Academia and Research: GEAR Tool

    Note: The GEAR tool was updated in 2022. Find the latest version of this document here. Institutional change is a strategy aimed at removing the obstacles to gender equality that are inherent in the research system itself, and at adapting institutional practices. Within an institutional change approach, the focus is on the organisation. Research organisations and higher education institutions are...