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  • Online Certificate Course on Gender Mainstreaming - 2019 edition

    Course Description Gender mainstreaming is a strategy to achieve gender equality. This strategy aims at making visible the different impacts on or impact of women and men in a given context. It involves the recognition that the gender division of labor and its associated norms, values and ideologies are defined by a complex of power relations which tend to accord...

  • Montenegro launches its first Gender Equality Index 2020

    Congratulations to Montenegro for their first national Gender Equality Index! This EU candidate country achieved a score of 55 out of 100 and sits below the 2019 EU average of 67.4. Montenegro's Gender Equality Index was developed with EIGE's support and follows #EIGEIndex methodology. More about EIGE's cooperation with the EU candidate countries and potential candidates here. The following documents...

  • Launch of Albania's Gender Equality Index 2020

    Congratulations to Albania for their first national Gender Equality Index! This EU candidate country achieved a score of 60.4 out of 100 - just 7 points below the 2019 EU average of 67.4. "Now that Albania has its own Gender Equality Index, it will be able to monitor progress. With a detailed analysis of remaining gender equality challenges, politicians can...

  • "Cineforum ! Cinema, eguaglianza, lavoro - verso il giorno della memoria"

    Il CPO del Consiglio dell’Ordine degli Avvocati di Firenze, l’associazione AGI Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani, la Fondazione per la Formazione Forense di Firenze, in collaborazione con Mediateca della Regione Toscana, promuovono una rassegna cinematografica dedicata ai temi dei diritti della persona costituzionalmente garantiti, con particolare attenzione ai principi d’eguaglianza e di pari opportunità, nel mondo del lavoro e nella società tutta...

  • Moments and Milestones. EIGE 10 Years

    EU gender equality leaders celebrate 10 years of EIGE On 23 January, in Vilnius, Lithuania, EU leaders on gender equality are marking a decade since the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) opened its doors. Senior EU figures such as Helena Dalli, EU Commissioner for Equality, and Evelyn Regner, Chair of the European Parliament's gender equality committee, will join EIGE...

  • Debunking myths and online gender stereotypical behaviour

    Concept: A one-day conference in which we want to give guidance on how to deal with gender-stereotyped behaviour among young people online. It will target a wide range of professionals who come into contact with young people in one way or another (social workers, teachers, NGOs, etc.) and it will lead to concrete recommendations to (Belgian and European) politicians and...

  • UN Women – Webinar on The Impact of Trade Agreements on Women’s Economic Empowerment

    In the framework of WE EMPOWER, a program promoting economic empowerment of women at work in G7 and EU countries, funded by the European Union and implemented by UN Women in partnership with the International Labour Organization, UN Women will be conducting a webinar on The Impact of Trade Agreements on Women’s Economic Empowerment on December 12, 2019 at 16:00...

  • [GE Academy] FREE Training: Towards a gender-aware research organisation: what you need to know (but never dared to ask)

    Why: This important training gives a unique opportunity to familiarise with basic concepts and sensitise about key problems at stake regarding gender in R&I and unconscious bias. It aims at raising awareness about the importance of institutional change for Gender Equality and familiarising with the concept of a Gender Equality Plan and its main stages of measures aimed at tackling...

  • EIGE attends the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO)

    In the context of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) will be held in Brussels on December 09 - 10, 2019. The event will begin in the morning of December 9, when the Council will hold the public debate entitled "Economy of Wellbeing - next steps in...

  • [GE Academy] Free Training: How to avoid gender bias in recruitment and promotion?

    Why: This important training gives a unique opportunity to sensitise about unconsious bias, challenging allegedly objective and gender-neutral career enhancement criteria guided by one of the leading gender experts in Europe, Dr Maxime Forest. The training will provide an overview of the main imbalances and bias with regard to HR management in research and the academia (vertical and horizontal segregation...

  • Companies against domestic violence: final event for the CEASE project

    Who doesn't know at least one person that has been or is a victim of domestic violence? Because domestic violence never stays just at home and it has an impact on work, the CEASEproject aims to implicate companies against this plague by creating a supportive and secure workplace for victims of domestic violence. On the 20th november, come and discover...