The General Secretariat for Gender Equality (GSGE), i.e. the governmental organization in charge of equality between women and men in Greece, is organizing a Seminar entitled "Men's Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children" (Athens, 11th of November, 2016). It is underlined that the Seminar is being organized in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Greece on the occasion...
"I welcome the Summit’s objective to discuss how gender continues to be addressed in Horizon 2020, as well as how to further gender mainstreaming in my 3 priority areas of open innovation, open science and open to the world. The future of Europe’s knowledge economy will be entirely dependent on women reaching their full potential in STEM careers. My services...
As an overarching topic for this meeting, we have chosen to explore the relevance of gender equality in the European Pillar of Social Rights – one of the major priorities announced by President Juncker in the field of employment and social affairs. The outcomes of our debate will contribute to the extensive consultation that the European Commission is carrying out...
On the 8th of November, the End FGM European Network is organising a conference on FGM in the EU asylum procedures. The conference is organised as part of our 2016 focus on asylum and builds on the capacity building seminar on asylum and FGM that took place in June. Read why we are organising this conference and see the draft...
The 2016 annual EIGE's RDC partners' meeting will be coorganised with GenPort and will have the form of a workshop on taxonomies. The RDC partners and a group of experts on taxonomy will discuss and identify areas of collaboration and synergies regarding the gender gossaries/thesauri/taxonomies.
Much attention is given to the existence and measurement of gender inequality, but relatively little attention is given to the macroeconomic costs that result from the presence of inequality. EIGE's Director, Virginija Langbakk, is going to participate in the conference and will be presenting the preliminary results of EIGE's new study on Economic Benefits of Gender Equality. The aim of...
The conference "Gender Equality and reconciliation" will take place in San Sebastian, Spain. The conference is organized by the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and will take place 27-28 October 2016. EIGE will present the its study on the economic benefits of gender equality in the European Union.
The 5th Meeting of Officials from EU Enlargement countries will take place on 27-28 October 2016 at the European Institute for Gender Equality, Gedimino pr. 16, Vilnius, Lithuania. The event will be organised within the framework of EIGE’s Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance project Involvement of EU candidate countries and potential candidates in work of the European Institute for Gender Equality...
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), in collaboration with Statistics Finland, is organizing the 6 th Global Forum on Gender Statistics under the Global Gender Statistics Programme and guidance from the Interagency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics (IAEG-GS). Our colleague, Ligia Nobrega, gender expert and Project Manager for EIGE's Gender Statistics Database will present the Database during the Forum...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in cooperation with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation are hosting a high level conference “Mainstreaming gender equality into academic and research organisations”. The conference will bring together around 170 decision-makers, experts and practitioners responsible for gender mainstreaming in the research sector. Building on the achievements of academic and research organisations...
The international conference on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) organized in Helsinki, Finland on the 13th of October 2016 will host a panel on FGM/C policies in the Nordic Countries and the EU. Jurgita Pečiūrienė - EIGE's Gender Expert will be presenting EIGE's work in the area. More information can be found here. The conference is organized by the Finnish League...
The conference “Engendering Habitat III: Facing the Global Challenges in Cities, Climate Change and Transport” will continue to build knowledge, experience, and networks, on the topics of gender and women in cities, planning, transportation, climate change, and structural change of institutions to promote gender equality in technological fields, with a focus on architecture and planning. In addition to furthering the...
