This two-day international and multi-stakeholder Conference will gather some 200 participants, including governmental representatives, international development agencies from the region and beyond, international organisations dealing with women empowerment and gender equality, private sector and civil society representatives, as well as promoters of current and potential future projects of the Union for the Mediterranean. The Conference aims to: Identify priority initiatives...
The consultation meeting on data collection: administrative data sources and future needs for data collection that will take place on the 19-20 March in Vilnius. Committed to support ongoing work across the EU to address and combat GBV, the European Institute for Gender Equality notes that evidence in the form of comparable and harmonised data is crucial for informed decision-making...
The 3 rd meeting of Officials from enlargement countries will take place on 18 March 2014 in Vilnius. The meeting will be organised within the framework of the IPA project ‘ Preparatory measures for the participation of candidate countries and potential candidates in EIGE’s work ’. This is EIGE’s first project financed by the IPA instrument to establish contacts, assess...
In 2013, EIGE launched the Gender Equality Index - a unique measurement tool that synthesises the complexity of gender equality as a multi-dimensional concept into a user-friendly and easily interpretable measure. The results obtained show that the domain of power highlights the biggest gender gaps, with an average score of only 38.0 at EU level. The wide differences in the...
On 5 March the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) will launch the results of the world’s biggest ever violence against women survey. A launch conference will be hosted under the auspices of the Greek Presidency and will take place in the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The survey findings are based on interviews with 42,000 women...
EIGE is organising a consultation meeting on “good practices in the area of Female Entrepreneurship“ which will take place on 27th and 28th February 2014 in Athens. This meeting is organised within the framework of EIGE’s study framework of EIGE’s work on good practices on gender mainstreaming. The event represents a key step in EIGE’s approach to the assessment of...
On 26 February EIGE invites members of Stakeholders/Communication teams of EU Agencies to join online discussion. Tentative agenda: 10.00-10.30 Introductions 10.30-11.30 Position and strategy of Stakeholders Teams in your institutions 11.30-12.30 Nurturing our relationships with Stakeholders: challenges and best practices 12.30-13.00 Planning physical meeting of Stakeholders Teams In order to join discussion, click on the JOIN button on the left...
EIGE will meet with representatives from Academic institutions on 24-25 February 2014. The objectives of the meeting are: To explore and decide how to collaborate further in the area of quality of research. To explore and decide how to strengthen the dissemination of each other working results. Meeting agenda (.pdf) View the meeting's image gallery
The 4th meeting of the Working Group on the Gender Equality Index will take place in Vilnius on 20-21 February 2014. The following topics will be discussed: Update of the Gender Equality Index 2012: reflection on the lesson learned from the first edition; Introduction of deeper analysis on the subdomain of quality of work; Challenge of filling the gaps in...
The European Women’s Lobby is pleased to announce its next event in the framework of the 50/50 campaign and the European Political Mentoring Programme at the European Parliament in Brussels, on 18 February (16.15 – 18.15). The seminar, hosted by MEP Claude Moraes (S&D), moderated by 3 members of the Core Group, aims at promoting the active participation of women...
Wikigender, the UN Foundation, Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC), the EU-LAC Foundation, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), ECLAC and PARIS21 would like to hear your views on where are the data gaps and engage in a discussion on pioneering initiatives that generate new data and new methodological approaches to address complex areas (e.g. unpaid care, time use, social...
