EIGE’s Brussels Liaison Officer, Sarah Cooke O'Dowd, and Stakeholder Trainee, Victoire Olczak, participates in the European Women’s Lobby 10th AGORA Summer Camp on the theme 'Violence Against Women and Girls,' presenting EIGE’s work.
EIGE’s Gender Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, participates in the EU conference 'Gender Equality: Zooming in on Men and Boys', organised by the Danish Presidency. The conference addresses gender-based challenges and inequalities affecting men and boys, as well as the influence of the manosphere in reinforcing stereotypical gender roles and misogyny.
EIGE’s Gender Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, participates in the Trio of Presidencies meeting on 8 September. Presenting EIGE’s policy brief on combating gender stereotypes at the High-Level Group meeting organised by DG JUST.
EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence Expert, Anna Rita Manca, attends the annual conference organised by the Asociación Ciencia, Feminismo y Masculinidades (AUCFEM), focusing on ‘Forms and Responses to Domestic Violence and Violence Against Women in the 21st Century’. Anna Rita presents two abstracts: one on the European Protection Order and another on the EU-GBV Survey.
EIGE’s Research and Statistics Team Leader, Jolanta Reingarde, joins a workshop organised by FRA to shape visions and future pathways for fundamental rights in Europe by 2040. The workshop uses a participatory approach, building on the fundamental rights scenarios developed through FRA’s ongoing foresight work. This initiative forms part of FRA’s wider foresight project, which aims to embed a fundamental...
EIGE welcomes the Lithuanian civil society organisation Stebék Teises. During the visit, the organisation presents the results of its project FEMME EMPOWER. The aim of FEMME EMPOWER is to increase the participation of young women in Europe in the democratic process. It is an Erasmus+ project carried out with partners in six European countries: Lithuania, Romania, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and...
EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence Researcher, Monica Barbovschi, joins the 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM2025), taking place in Athens from 3 to 6 September 2025. Monica presents “Measuring violence against children: a statistical overview”, featuring data from the EU-GBV survey. The presentation explores the prevalence and nature of violence against children, emphasising the critical role of comparable...
The Labour Market Committee of the Swedish Parliament visits the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) in Vilnius. The visit offers an opportunity to exchange knowledge and insights on gender equality and discrimination in the labour market and workplace, with particular attention to developments in Lithuania and the Baltic region. EIGE shares its latest research, data, and good practices in...
EIGE welcomes the Italian Parliament’s Inquiry Committee into Femicide and Gender-based Violence for an exchange on EIGE’s work on feminicide. As part of its ongoing comparative study of European legal systems, the Committee is seeking to identify best practices in the prevention of gender-based violence, with a particular focus on economic violence and femicide. The visit to EIGE offers an...
EIGE’s Director, Carlien Scheele, meets Jurate Losiene, Director of State and Diplomatic Protocol, and Sigitas Mitkus, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, to explore opportunities for closer cooperation, particularly in the context of Lithuania’s upcoming Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2027.
EIGE’s researcher Irene Rioboo Leston presents the results of the CARE survey at the 11th Conference of the European Survey Research Association. This year’s conference theme, ‘Promises and problems of new and alternative data sources and formats for survey research: methodological challenges and substantive conclusions’, covers topics highly relevant to EIGE’s work. These include non-probability surveys, measuring sex and gender...
EIGE’s Gender-Based Violence Team Leader, Cristina Fabre, attends the global meeting organised by UNODC and UN Women. The meeting brings together national and regional stakeholders to discuss the implementation of the statistical framework for measuring gender-related killings of women and girls.