• GEP – University of Southern Denmark (SDU) (DK)

    The SDU’s GEP focuses on implementation, documentation and quality assurance of the university’s collected equality endeavours for students and employees. It structures and supports ongoing initiatives, and provides a perspective on prevailing equality and inclusion issues. That focus ensures that initiatives and measures respond and reflect local and specific challenges. The GEP also seeks to further career opportunities and promote...

  • GEP – VRVis (Zentrum für Virtual Reality und Visualisierung) (AT)

    The GEP developed and implemented by VRVis included concrete targets for structural and cultural change in the organisation. It sought to increase stakeholder and staff awareness of the underrepresentation of women at VRVis through training and internal information. It also targeted at least 25 % women researchers and an increased share of women in decision-making processes. The GEP measures were...

  • GEP development – Plovdiv University (BG)

    As a partner in SPEAR, Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarski (PU) began to develop its institutional GEP. Gender equality had never been a matter of concern at PU and no gender work or capacity-building had taken place prior to its participation in SPEAR. Researchers started with interviews, workshops, discussions and other initiatives to get in-depth information about staff and management attitudes...

  • Gender Equality Plan 2019–2020 – Central European University (CEU) (HU/AT)

    CEU’s first GEP (2019–2022) was developed within the framework of the SUPERA project. The GEP is a step forward in the institutional gender equality framework of the CEU and covers objectives in eight gender equality priority areas: (1) gender equality in CEU’s mission, leadership and access to decision-making, (2) gender equality in recruitment, retention and career progression, including (3) availability...

  • Gender Equality Plan 2019–2023 – Estonian Marine Institute of the University of Tartu (EE)

    The Estonian Marine Institute was invited to participate in the Horizon 2020 project “Baltic Gender”, which aimed to promote gender equality in marine research institutions. One specific measure was the development of (voluntary) GEPs in all partner institutes. The general goal of the GEP is to promote equality through institutional change in order to optimise human capacity to address the...

  • Gender Equality Plan 2020–2027 – Estonian Research Council (ERC) (EE)

    The ERC’s GEP aims to ensure equal opportunities for all women and men researchers. It seeks gender equality in all of its activities and supports all researchers, regardless of their gender (or their sexual orientation, nationality, age, other personal characteristics). The ERC believes that society will benefit most from science when researchers are diverse and the research itself considers gender...

  • GEP development – Vilnius University (LT)

    At Vilnius University, gender equality is one constituent of the general Equal Opportunities Policy. The University’s GEP is one of the measures in the “Implementation Plan for the period 2020–2022” for its “Diversity and Equal Opportunities Strategy 2020–2025” . The GEP is also part of the University’s commitments under the EU-funded SPEAR project. The GEP was developed at the end...

  • GEP development and implementation – University of Rijeka (HR)

    The University of Rijeka developed their GEP with the SPEAR project team and different stakeholders – local community members, national policy actors and other institutions developing GEPs in Croatia. The GEP addresses four major areas where inequalities have been detected, which are (1) the institutional culture of GE, (2) GE in scientific and artistic research, (3) GE in teaching and...

  • Implementing and monitoring GEP – Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SI)

    In 2019, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) became the first academic organisation to implement a fully-fledged GEP. Created within the framework of the European project “R&I PEERS” (2018-2022), it built on the qualitative and quantitative assessment of gender equality in the institution that was conducted as part of the GARCIA[1] project (2014­–2017)...

  • GEP - Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding

    The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding has developed a GEP. The initiative is part of the Horizon 2020 CALIPER project (2020-2023), which aims to implement structural change and build gender equality expertise in organisations. The Agency conducted an internal and external gender equality assessment and its draft GEP was adopted in mid-September 2021. Further information...

  • Strategy for Equal Opportunities - University of Cologne (DE)

    The University of Cologne’s Strategy for Equal Opportunities was co-created as part of a two-year dialogue with student and employee representatives. It includes specific action plans against all grounds of discrimination, which are currently being implemented. The thematically varied strategy follows different principles: (1) empowerment: participatory development of the strategy; (2) evidence-based: current research is taken into account when developing...

  • GEP - VLIR (BE)

    The measure is based on the gender policy Leaving No One Behind – Equality & Inclusion Policy of VLIR-UOS , which is the updated policy to be implemented between 2020–2024. The Gender Working group of the Flemish Interuniversity Council consists of policymakers of the different universities, an academic gender expert and people in charge of personnel and research policy. In...