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  • From Practices with Potential to Good Practices on Female Entrepreneurship - Consultation meeting

    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...

  • EU Agencies' Stakeholders Discussion

    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...

  • Meeting with Academia

    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

  • 4th meeting of the Working Group on the Gender Equality Index

    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...

  • My MEP is Just Like Me?/!-Seminar on gender equality and diversity in European political life, European Parliament, Brussels

    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...

  • Data Gaps on Gender Equality

    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...

  • High-Level Working Group on Gender Mainstreaming

    This meeting is organized every semester by the Presidency of the Council of the EU with the participation of the governmental authorities in charge of gender equality at the 28 Member States, the European Commission, the Secretariat of the Council and EIGE. The aim of the meeting is the coordination of actions of the Trio Presidency in the field of...

  • Benefits of Gender Equality Consultation Meeting

    In April 2013, EIGE launched a new project on the Benefits of Gender Equality (BGE). By introducing a focus on benefits, EIGE seeks to promote gender equality across the EU. The BGE project included an online discussion and two expert group meetings among renowned experts and relevant networks working on evidence-based advocacy for gender equality in the EU. Preliminary ideas...

  • Conference Gender equality and non-discrimination: experiences and opportunities from the implementation of EU structural funds investments

    The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania is hosting a conference “ Gender equality and non-discrimination: experiences and opportunities from the implementation of EU structural funds investments” to present the results of the Evaluation of the impact of EU structural assistance on the implementation of the horizontal priority “gender equality and non-discrimination”. PPMI Group carried out this evaluation...

  • Demonstration is support of right to legal abortion in Spain

    On 20 December 2013, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft bill aiming at reforming the current law on sexual and reproductive health and rights. If approved, this new bill would lead to a 30 years step backwards in the rights of women and the failure of the Government to fulfill its fundamental role to promote gender equality and...

  • Diversity, inclusiveness and non discrimination in the world of work

    Managing diversity in the workplace brings many benefits but is not without efforts. Acknowledgment of other forms of discrimination are being added to long-recognized patterns such as those based on sex, race and religion. There is increasing awareness of unfair treatment of both young and older persons, people with disabilities, and LGBTI, sexual and life style choices. In this workshop...

  • Meeting with the Working group on the Implementation of Horizontal Priorities in EU Structural Funds

    Numerous research shows that EU Structural Funds investments offer huge potential for gender equality, for innovative gender equality initiatives, for true gender mainstreaming. The EU funded projects often have a broader impact on the societies, thus it is essential that the gender dimension within them is well developed. For this to happen, the civil servants behind the programming process and...