Youth and Environment Europe would like to invite young people to join the study session "Exploring gender equality in environmental projects" co-organised with the Council of Europe’s Youth Department at the European Youth Centre Strasbourg. In this project we would like to explore what gender equality means for youth organisations, how to bring gender perspective to environmental youth projects and...
POUR LA SOLIDARITÉ - PLS en partenariat avec BeFace organise le 10 mars 2017 un séminaire sur l'intériorisation de la discrimination chez les femmes issues de la diversité en recherche d'emploi. Les femmes ayant subi ou constaté des discriminations peuvent les intérioriser au point de compromettre leur recherche d'emploi. Le séminaire s'adresse aux entreprises, aux structures publiques et organisations du...
Reducing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education areas could help reduce skills gap, increase employment and productivity of women and reduce occupational segregation. Ultimately this would foster economic growth via both higher productivity and increased labour market activity. These are outcomes of EIGE's new Study on Economic Benefits of Gender Equality. Find out more about...
Join experts from across the globe to discuss Gender Balance in Decision-Making in Research Organisations. Online discussion, 23rd of Februrary, 2017 10:00 – 12:00 Central European Time. Despite various national and EU level gender equality policies in science, the research sector in Europe continues to waste and underutilize the resources of highly skilled and talented women: Whilst currently every other...
București, 11 februarie 2015 - “Orașul (non)sexist - Inventar al discriminărilor urbane sensibil la gen” reprezintă o cercetare de pionierat în România, care a avut ca obiect de studiu discriminarea urbană de gen din București. Puteți consulta și/sau descărca cercetarea de pe site-ul proiectului, la adresa http://www. discriminari-urbane.ro/index. php/ghid. Parte integrantă a proiectului Discriminări urbane. Program de cetățenie activă sensibil...
1 in 3 women across the planet will be assaulted or raped during her lifetime. That's ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. Since this movement began in 2013, EIGE has organised One Billion Rising events each year in house. This year EIGE has a fantastic opportunity to participate in the main event in the heart of Vilnius city, joining the One...
Save the date for an event hosted by Angelika Mlinar MEP and co-organised by the European Women’s Lobby and PWC. Since 2010, the share of women on company boards has doubled from 12% to 25% across the EU. However, the vast majority of women on company board are non-executive, and 96.5 % of European CEOs today are male - with...
EIGE's Director, Virginija Langbakk is presenting an European overview of gender-based violence in the opening of the Conference. The agenda of the event is enclosed and available for download.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (FAO REU) with the support of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) are convening a high level conference, to provide an interactive platform to promote partnerships and joint learning for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030. The conference, by...
EIGE will host a delegation from Finland, Ministry of Interior. The delegation consists of following persons: Panu Artemjeff, Katriina Nousiainen, Mia Luhtasaari, Satu Kaskinen, Hanna Rönty, Heini Huotarinen. They all work in the Unit for Democracy, Language Affairs and Fundamental Rights in Ministry of Justice and they are the Fundamental Rights and Non-Discrimination team of the unit. The main focus...
With the aim to strengthen synergies and cooperation, on 24 - 25 January 2017, EIGE organises a consultation meeting with Civil Society organisations. Instead of our bilateral annual consultation meetings with the civil society organisations, we are this time trying out a new approach and invite all our key civil society partners together to the meeting organised in Vilnius, on...
One of EIGE`s aims is to keep the Gender Statistics Database as an up-to-date, useful and relevant tool for its users. Thanks to the valuable input received in the previous online discussions and meetings, a set of priorities has been identified to further develop and improve this tool. Starting in 2017, we consider expanding the scope of the database, enlarging...