EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence Team Leader, Cristina Fabre, attends the WHO event “I Believe You” – Building Survivor-Centred Health Systems for Women and Girls. The event marks Beijing+30 and recognises that violence against women and girls remains a crisis, and that health systems must be part of the solution. It discusses priorities for implementing the Call to Action made by Ministers...
EIGE’s gender-based violence trainee, Krisitna Gorthardova, presents the main findings of EIGE’s recent report “Responding to gender-based violence in the context of migration: Mapping EU Member States' policies and actions” at EUAA’s Annual Conference of its Network of Vulnerability Experts (20–21 November). Krisitna Gorthardova also presents an upcoming project in the area of gender-based violence in migration and forced displacement.
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), in partnership with the European Parliament Office in Lithuania, the Women’s Information Center, and media partner LRytas, is organising the event “Storm Before the Silence: Violence Against Women in Lithuania,” which will take place on 21 November 2025 in Vilnius. This event is part of the United Nations’ “Orange the World” initiative to...
EIGE undertakes a country visit to Dublin in view of the upcoming Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2026. The visit provides an opportunity to meet officials from key national institutions to discuss gender equality in Ireland, including attending the launch of the National Strategy for Women and Girls. EIGE discusses how its tools and resources best...
EIGE hosts the second Comms Lab workshop, “Messages Matter: Communicating Effectively to Help End Violence Against Women.” The workshop focuses on exchanging practical advice on message building and on making the best use of the recently published Communications Lab workbook “How to Communicate for Change?”. The workbook explores how every message matters when communicating about a future free from violence...
EIGE’s Research & Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, participates in the Futures Cluster, one of the thematic sub-networks of EU-ANSA. The cluster focuses on strategic foresight, identifying emerging issues, trends, risks, and opportunities that EU agencies may need to anticipate in their scientific and technical advice roles, using methods such as horizon scanning, scenario-building, early-warning, and modelling.
EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence Researcher, Monica Barbovschi, attends the EU Network meeting on the prevention of gender-based and domestic violence, taking place on 12–13 November in Brussels. The event focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in preventing gender-based and domestic violence.
EIGE’s Research & Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, Jolanta Reingarde, participates in a workshop bringing together EU agencies and key services to test and discuss scenario work and explore thematic and foresight collaboration, with a focus on multi-agency foresight using a One Health approach.
EIGE’s Brussels Liaison Officer, Sarah Cooke O'Dowd, presents EIGE’s foresight work at this one-day, hands-on workshop bringing together foresight practitioners from EU institutions and agencies, Member States, regions and cities, international organisations and universities. Held on the eve of the ESPAS Annual Conference, the workshop focuses on the practical application of foresight in policymaking through interactive sessions, peer learning, and...
EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele, brings EIGE’s expertise on care to the discussion as part of the European Parliament’s Gender Equality Week. The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs hosts an Exchange of Views on the work-life balance topic, including implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive, highlighting key issues and progress in promoting better work-life balance across the EU.
EIGE’s Brussels Liaison Officer, Sarah Cooke O'Dowd, presents EIGE at a joint meeting of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, held in the context of European Parliament’s Gender Equality Week, focusing on radical movements advocating against gender equality.
EIGE organises the Communications Lab webinar and online workshop for young influential voices from across the European Union, Western Balkans and Türkiye. The workshop brings together young people who communicate on the topics of violence against women and gender equality. As a starting point for discussion, EIGE presents a workbook that explores how every message matter when shaping a future...