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  • AUGUST Call for papers: the 4th Health in Transition Conference: Challenges of Health, Demographic Changes, and Wellbeing in Post-socialist Societies

    Call for Papers: the 4th Health in Transition Conference: Challenges of Health, Demographic Changes, and Wellbeing in Post-socialist Societies August 26-27, 2015 Hosted by: Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia) The 4th Health in Transition Conference addresses current challenges of health, demographic change, and wellbeing in post-socialist societies and the role of social sciences and...

  • 6 - 10 JULY: Summer School on Gender Economics and Society - ITCILO Campus, Turin, Italy

    The importance of gender strategies to promote growth and development and to improve welfare systems is widely recognized. This is reflected in the increasing commitment of both international organization and national governments towards programmes aimed at strengthening women’s participation in economic life, in politics and in institutions, as well as in the progress of theoretical analysis and development of indicators...

  • EU Conference: Launch of the Gender Equality Index 2015

    About The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) develops and shares reliable evidence on gender equality in the EU and the Member States to support better informed policymaking. Since its creation in 2010 it is increasingly referred to as the EU knowledge center for gender equality matters. As a major achievement EIGE developed and launched the Gender Equality Index in...

  • Green Growth, Green Jobs: Integrating Environmental and Employment Policies in the EU

    ‘Green jobs’ are quickly redefining traditional job roles and simultaneously creating new professions in a wide range of sectors such as construction, transport, energy supply, engineering and science. In particular, they have emerged as a response to global challenges linked to environmental protection, economic development and social inclusion. The ‘Environmental Goods and Services Sector’ (EGSS) represents approximately 2% of total...

  • Meeting with Social Platform

    EIGE's meeting with the Social Platform will take place on 11-12 June 2015 Draft agenda (.pdf)

  • Round-table meeting ‘Strengthening cooperation to combat female genital mutilation’

    The aim of this round table is to pool existing expertise and knowledge at the level of the Member States in tackling FGM, to initiate specific cooperation on prevention, and to contribute to the actions of the European Commission at the EU level. On Tuesday, June 9, EIGE presented its new report on the ‘Estimation of girls at risk of...

  • Gender and Human Rights (Foundation Course)

    This 6-week e-learning course provides a general introduction to gender equality within the international human rights system. Participants will understand the evolution of human rights frameworks in response to gender inequality and women's empowerment, think critically about how the human rights system engages with the reality of gender disparities and assess progress and gaps in securing gender equality and human...

  • 7FP project INTEGER (INstitutional Transformation for Effecting Gender Equality in Research (SiS-2010-2.1.1.1)) dissemination semi

    The aim of the project INTEGER ( INstitutional Transformation for Effecting Gender Equality in Research) is to engage problems of gender equality in academia and research institutions involving every part of them – managers, researchers, administrative staff exc. This is only possible by pointing out matters and answering them. Using seminars, internal and external experts partners will learn the needs...

  • The 9th European Feminist Research Conference 2015

    The 9th European Feminist Research Conference will take place at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, on June 3-6, 2015. The theme for the conference is ‘Sex and Capital’. The conference will look for feminist analysis on the meaning of capital and money in constructing societies and cultures. By combining the important aspects of material corporeality, sexual citizenship and power...

  • Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge

    The Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the DHST calls for papers for the conference Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge which will held in Prague on 4-6 June 2015.