About The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) develops and shares reliable evidence on gender equality in the EU and the Member States to support better informed policymaking. Since its creation in 2010 it is increasingly referred to as the EU knowledge center for gender equality matters. As a major achievement EIGE developed and launched the Gender Equality Index in...
‘Green jobs’ are quickly redefining traditional job roles and simultaneously creating new professions in a wide range of sectors such as construction, transport, energy supply, engineering and science. In particular, they have emerged as a response to global challenges linked to environmental protection, economic development and social inclusion. The ‘Environmental Goods and Services Sector’ (EGSS) represents approximately 2% of total...
The aim of this round table is to pool existing expertise and knowledge at the level of the Member States in tackling FGM, to initiate specific cooperation on prevention, and to contribute to the actions of the European Commission at the EU level. On Tuesday, June 9, EIGE presented its new report on the ‘Estimation of girls at risk of...
This 6-week e-learning course provides a general introduction to gender equality within the international human rights system. Participants will understand the evolution of human rights frameworks in response to gender inequality and women's empowerment, think critically about how the human rights system engages with the reality of gender disparities and assess progress and gaps in securing gender equality and human...
The aim of the project INTEGER ( INstitutional Transformation for Effecting Gender Equality in Research) is to engage problems of gender equality in academia and research institutions involving every part of them – managers, researchers, administrative staff exc. This is only possible by pointing out matters and answering them. Using seminars, internal and external experts partners will learn the needs...
The 9th European Feminist Research Conference will take place at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, on June 3-6, 2015. The theme for the conference is ‘Sex and Capital’. The conference will look for feminist analysis on the meaning of capital and money in constructing societies and cultures. By combining the important aspects of material corporeality, sexual citizenship and power...
The Commission on Women and Gender Studies of the DHST calls for papers for the conference Gendering Science: Women and Men Producing Knowledge which will held in Prague on 4-6 June 2015.
Welcome to a high-level conference on why and how sex and gender analysis is fundamental for engendering excellence in many research fields. Sex and gender refer to biological characteristics and social/cultural factors, respectively. Recognizing gender differences has important implications for scientific knowledge. Gender is a cross-cutting issue in Horizon 2020. The gender dimension is explicitly integrated into several topics across...
Great opportunity for European Civil Servants to update their knowledge and improve their skills for gender mainstreaming. This training will contribute to increase the relevance and quality of EU projects and programmes. When? Two trainings have been planned. You can choose: 1-2-3 June 2015 1-2-3 September 2015 Where? Both trainings will take place at a conference hotel in Germany, World...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) invites you to participate to the online discussion “ EIGE’s Gender Statistics Database – Section on Violence ”, taking place on EuroGender, May 28 th, 9.00 - 3.00pm CET/ 10 - 4pm EET. EIGE has been developing and collecting several gender statistics datasets, which - at this stage of the project - are...