One week after the launch of the EU GBV Survey, EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence team attends several conferences to present its interesting key findings. EIGE’s Seconded National Expert, Janine McGinn, and Diana Esteve, trainee, join the “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence: Preventing Violence against Women in Lithuanian, Polish and Italian societies”, hosted by the Faculty of Law of Vilnius...
EIGE's Team Leader of Gender Mainstreaming, Helena Morais Maceira, attends the EU Mutual Learning Seminar on gender budgeting, to exchange knowledge and discuss the development of gender and equality budgeting within the European Union. Sweden and Ireland, co-hosts of the seminar, present their respective national approaches while EIGE showcases 2024 data on the commitment and use of gender budgeting in...
EIGE's Gender Equality and Statistics researcher, Vytautas Peciukonis, joins the EUROFOUND online expert meeting on care, to discuss EUROFOUND's draft research report on "Informal Care".
EIGE's Team Leader of Gender Mainstreaming, Helena Morais Maceira joins the Expert Group on the implementation of the EU Equality Law meeting in Brussels. In the context of the transposition of the Directives on Binding Standards for Equality Bodies, the Expert group focuses on the standards regarding the powers of equality bodies and their effectiveness access and accessibility.
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele, together with the Head of Research and Policy Support Unit, Marusa Gortnar, and the Team Leader of Gender Based Violence, Cristina Fabre, travels to Brussels to launch the results of EU Gender-based violence survey. On the 26th of November, they attend the...
As part of the global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the EESC organises a conference on 26 November to explore critical pathways toward realizing the 30-year anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 2025. The event emphasizes the need for strengthened accountability and collective action to eliminate violence against women and girls (VAWG). EIGE's Director...
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.