The European Conference on Violence Against Women aims at the review of the progress in the EU and the exchange of good practices between the Member States in this area. Representatives of all Member States of the EU, including NGO’s and high ranking officials of the European Commission, the European Council, the European Parliament and International Organisations will participate in...
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is organising the Journalist Thematic Network meeting on two important topics that EIGE is working on: 1) Violence against Women and 2) Resource & Documentation Centre (RDC) that will take place on the 6-7 November 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus. The meeting is addressed to journalists, media representatives and communications experts from a number...
The European Conference 'More technologies? More women entrepreneurs!' is the result of a succesful set of interlinked and complementary information and dissemination actions in the frames of the European project "ladybizIT", under the initiative "Leonaro da Vinci", with the aim to contribute to the European Comission's efforts to support female entrepreneurship and promote how Information and Communication Tools (ICTs) can...
The conference aims to be a venue for sharing experiences, based on the assumption that testimonies and exchanges between women from different walks of life create opportunities for empowerment. Women will be invited to share their stories from various spheres of life, learn from and inspire each other. Some can be small stories such as a story of entrepreneurship, and...
The gender pay gap will be the subject of a tripartite conference which will be organised in Limassol on 29-30 October by the Department for Labour Relations of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance. Government officials and representatives from employers’ and workers’ organisations from the Member States of the European Union will have the opportunity to discuss remaining challenges...
The 14th WAVE Conference 2012 will take place from 18th to 20th of October in London Location: Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury Coram Street London WC1N 1HT To register send an email to iris.golden@wave-network.org Event website
Five documentation centres and libraries specialising in women and gender issues are joining efforts with EIGE, to enable access to gender-based violence resources in EIGE’s Resource and Documentation Centre (RDC). The project aims to put together and make available resources, collected for more than twenty years by the project partners in several languages. It will include books, research articles, reports...
The fifth meeting of Working Group on the Beijing indicators will be organised on 10-11 October 2012 in Vilnius. The aim of the meeting is to discuss the results of several of EIGE's studies in the area of implementation and follow-up of the BPfA, and to present EIGE's plans on providing support to the forthcoming Presidencies of the Council of...
The Tenth Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society wil be held in Helsinki, Finland during 3-5 October 2012 (pre-conference workshops 1- 2 October). Event website
The European Institute for Gender Equality displays a fully fletched information stand in the margin of the conference ‘GENDER EQUALITY – WHAT DO THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION DO?’ at the European Parliament in Brussels on 3 October 2012. We picked one of the most powerful tools of our Institute to be presented there: the soon to be launched...