Description: WHY: This webinar is part of the GE Academy capacity building program. It aims at informing attendees about ERA priorities on gender equality and related facts and figures. In addition, it wants to sensitise on how gender is relevant in the entire research and innovation cycle as well as in innovation policies, presenting relevant studies and projects carried out...
Course Description: Gender-based violence (GBV) has been recognized as a cross-cutting issue affecting the lives of victims from a diversity of dimensions including culture, education, health, economy, psychology, livelihoods and political participation. In fact, violence against women and girls was chosen as one of the critical areas of action following the Beijing Conference. This presents a key opportunity for different...
Gender Action Plans: getting them right and making them happen November 5, 2019 – Trinity College Dublin Facilitator: Maxime Forest Gender action plans are a core aspect of the higher education landscape in Ireland today, they form a key part of the Athena Swan application process and related assessment. However, drafting and devising an effective and robust gender action plan...
Dear Friends, We are happy to invite you to our Summit on ıntegrated elderly and patient care system in Turkey, taking place on 31 October - 2 November 2019, in Istanbul. The Ageing, Health, Solution ' 19 SUMMIT will further explore, advance and agree on the need for global integrative management approach for Elderly Care and Patient Care. Multisectoral and...
Description WHY: This webinar is part of the GE Academy capacity building program. It aims at exploring the concept of institutional change for Gender Equality in Research organizations, and how Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) can be a mean for implementing them in view of achieving the 3 main ERA objectives. FOR WHOM: It offers a learning opportunity to HR managers...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) jointly with the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia organise the “Beijing+25 Regional Review Meeting” which will be held in Geneva on 29 – 30 October 2019 The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995 is the most ambitious road map for the empowerment of women and girls...
With specific reference to family disputes involving minors, the seminar will focus on means and procedures available to acquire valid and necessary evidence before the trial starts. The working theme will be the anticipated acquisition of psychological assessment both of the parties and of minors involved, which is aimed also at preventing further judicial proceedings. More details on the event...
On 24 October 2019, in Brussels, EIGE organizes the first from the series of Joint consultation meetings “Advancing administrative data collection on intimate partner violence and gender-related killings of women”. The aim of the meeting is to bring together national authorities from the police, justice, national statistics offices and gender equality mechanisms responsible for data collection on violence against women...
Within the framework of EIGE’s cooperation with the Western Balkans and Turkey and the Instrument of Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) of the European Union, the 10th Regional Coordination Meeting of EU candidate countries and potential candidates is organised in Brussels on 16 October 2019. The aim of the meeting is to: gather stakeholders from the region to discuss ways to cooperate...
Congratulations to North Macedonia for their first national Gender Equality Index! This EU candidate country achieved a score of 62.00 out of 100 - just 4 points below the EU-28 score of 66.2. "We welcome the publication of North Macedonia’s first Gender Equality Index, which shows that North Macedonia is not an exception: there is room for improvement across all...
This meeting involves journalists from around the European Union. The first day, participants will attend a high level conference of the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union ‘Europe for Gender Equality? Taking stock – taking action’. The second half day will focus on EIGE’s upcoming work and resources, as well as the results of its study in...
