CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The AGORA is back! AGORA is a European Women’s Lobby programme that brings young feminists from all over Europe to Brussels for a 5-day gathering to discuss and explore feminism and learn from each other. Our next AGORA will take place from 29 August to 2 September 2018 and we are now looking for candidates to take...
In cooperation with EU Social Partners, EIGE is organising the conference "Finding the way out from segregation in education, training and employment: Fostering gender equality and the role of social partners” on 3 July 2018 in Brussels. The seminar will gather stakeholders from employer and union organisations from all EU Member States. The aim of the meeting is to reflect...
Gendering the Western Balkans’ EU Accession Processes is a five-year programme, funded by The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida, and implemented by the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation in cooperation with local women’s civil society organisations in the Western Balkans. It includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The overall objective of the programme is to strengthen...
The European Institute for Gender Equality will the launch the study on estimating the numbers of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in Cyprus, Belgium, Greece, France, Italy and Malta. The event will take place on 25 June 2018 in Nicosia and is organised in cooperation with the Office of the Commissioner for Gender Equality of Cyprus. We will...
The European Institute for Gender Equality will launch the study on estimating the numbers of girls at risk of female genital mutilation in Greece, Belgium, France, Italy, Malta and Cyprus. The event will take place on 22 June 2018 in Athens and is organised in cooperation with Greek General Secretariat for Gender Equality . We will present our latest research...
Genera is a European project funded under Horizon 2020 to implement Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in physics research organisations. GENERA developed a range of evidence- and practice-based tools and recommendations to assist in the design and implementation of GEPs, which can be also applied to other related fields. The project started in September 2015 and is now ready to share...
The 2018 Gender Summit in London is 15th in the series and the first for London. Like previous events it is led by influential science institutions, with the Science and Engineering South Consortium of leading universities as the principal partner. GS15 builds on past discussions and recommendations and tackles fresh gender issues, in the context of new concerns such as...
On 14 - 15 June, Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, will organize the international conference focusing on the processes of gender differentiation in the media industry. Departing from the finding about the lack of suitable epistemologies and methods to adequately address gender differentiation in the media, the conference introduces theoretical starting points of the feminist...
UZH is proud to host the Second LERU Gender Conference on 14 - 15 June 2018. The disproportional loss of female talent in academia is evident and systematic almost without exception across disciplines, faculties, universities, and countries. Join us for this exciting opportunity to think and talk to each other about why this happens, and ways to stop it.
On 11 - 12 June 2018, EIGE will meet with gender equality stakeholders in Paris. On 11 June 2018, an open event with presentations and a panel discussion will be organised. Bilateral meetings will take place on 12 June. EIGE will present methods and tools that French colleagues could use to monitor and advance gender equality, Gender Equality Index and...
This year's Women Political Leaders Summit will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 6-8 June. The WPL Summit is the foremost global gathering of female political leaders. This year's event is co-hosted by Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, and will bring together women Heads of State and Government, Ministers, Parliamentarians and Mayors from all over the world. The WPL Summit...
Gender-sensitive Parliaments Tool is an online tool designed as a self-assessment exercise measuring gender sensitivity of the national parliaments of the EU Member States. Its objectives: • to build competences of the public administration of the EU Member States in the area of gender equality, • to collect empirical data on participation of women and men in political decision-making and...