EIGE and EUROFUND hold their annual meeting to discuss together possible collaboration and synergies. EIGE's Director, Carlien Scheele, together with Research and Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, and Stakeholders Relations Team Leader, Zivile Macijauskiene, meet EUROFOUND's Executive Director, Ivailo Kalfin. The meeting aims to align the agencies' research activities and strategies to effectively contribute to policy development, based on a...
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women key results of the EU Gender-based violence survey are revealed during a press briefing held in the Maelbeek Room, at the Residence Palace in Brussels on Monday 25 November 2024 hosted by Eurostat, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) and the European Institute for Gender...
EIGE's Gender Equality and Statistics researcher, Vytautas Peciukonis, takes part in the expert meeting on undeclared care work, hosted online and in Dublin. The topic of discussion is Eurofound's draft research paper on undeclared care work.
Maruša Gortnar, Head of EIGE Research and Policy, support unit attends 8th Management Board meeting of EUROFOUND (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions).
EIGE's Statistician, Davide Barbieri, attends the Task force on Equality data, held by EUROSTAT. The task force meets regularly, to discuss development of equality data at the EU level.
EIGE's gender equality researcher, Blandine Mollard, joins the kick-off meeting to the second WHO Health Equity Status Report Initiative (HESRi2) in Venice, Italy. The meeting aims to discuss health equity and wellbeing trends in the WHO European Region, support tracking progress in reducing inequities, highlight innovations in modelling returns on investment, and align HESRI2’s work with the priorities of champion...
EIGE's Director, Carilen Scheele, meets the outgoing Minister of Interior of Lithuania, Agne Bilotaite. The bilateral meeting is a great opportunity to discuss the uptake of EIGE's evidence in the work of the Ministry and reflect on the avenues for cooperation in the coming years.
EIGE attends the "United in Diversity: safeguarding equal rights for all" conference, held by the Danish Family Planning Association (DFPA), with support from the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network (IPPF EN). United in Diversity is the second retreat for civil servants from EU Member States and aims to brainstorm strategies to face the opposition movements that seek to undermine...
EIGE's Gender Equality and Statistics researcher, Lina Salanauskaite, joins the European Economic and Social Committee debate in preparation to the 69th meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW69). In the framework of the European Parliament’s Gender Equality Week, the debate focuses on the relevant priorities to bring to the UNCSW69, collecting the views of international...
EIGE's Brussels Liaison officer, Sarah Cooke O'Dowd, meets the European Trade Union Confederation's Women's Committee. They discuss EIGE's work on the transposition of the pay transparency directive and strategies to tackle gender-based violence in the workplace, as well as opportunities for closer collaboration in the future.