EIGE's next Journalist Thematic Network meeting is coming up on 7 – 8 June in Vilnius. With the upcoming elections for the European Parliament in May next year, we will sharpen our focus to look at who holds the decision-making power in Europe. The format of this meeting will be a bit different from others. Instead of the usual 1.5...
EIGE was recently invited to speak at the regional conference: The Future of the Welfare State in the Western Balkans, taking place in Belgrade, Serbia, on 6-8 June. The conference aimed to create an opportunity to discuss and exchange views on the strategic choices and options for the future of the welfare state in the Region. It also sought to...
EIGE has developed an innovative self-assessment tool that helps collect empirical data to measure the gender sensitivity of national parliaments, in terms of their organisational structures and work processes. Considering a range of key criteria, EIGE's online tool offers a way to asses and monitor gender equality in parliaments over times. We have worked together with a few Parliaments (Estonia...
The EQUAL-IST Team invites you to participate in the fourth Webinar titled: Sustainability of Gender Equality Plans and structural change measures in research organizations. During this online learning and sharing session, we would like to explore strategies and actions that can be taken by Research Organizations committed to achieve gender equality to ensure continued and long-term support to Gender Equality...
14-18 May 2018 - Turin, Italy Register for this workshop and participate in the International Labour Standards Academy ITCILO workshop on Pay Equity and Key Equality Conventions aims to familiarize stakeholders (staff from governments, parliamentarians, employers/ the private sector, trade unions, civil society and other relevant partners) with pay equity frameworks, job evaluation and a step-by-step programme to promote pay...
21st Experts' Forum Meeting will take place in Vilnius on 26 - 27 April 2018. Discussions and group work on different topics will take place at the meeting: we will present our new communication strategy and discuss opportunities for our cooperation, including the upcoming country visits and the upcoming Gender-sensitive parliaments tool we will discuss how the tools and methods...
On 24 - 25 April, EIGE will meet with gender equality stakeholders in Riga. On 24 April, an open event with presentations and a panel discussion will be organised at The Latvian School of Public Administration. Bilateral meetings will take place on 25 April. EIGE will present methods and tools that Latvian colleagues could use to monitor and advance gender...
The Experts’ consultation meeting on gender, youth and digitalisation will take place in Vilnius on 24 April 2018. The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) supports the Presidencies of the Council ofthe EU in preparing reports on the EU monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPIA). For the forthcoming Austrian Presidency, we will develop a report on the opportunities...
9-13 April, 2018 – Turin, Italy How can organizations become gender responsive and transformative? The presence of more women does not automatically mean greater equality. This course analyses success stories and barriers, and goes deeper by looking at gender as part of an organizational change management strategy rather than as a stand-alone item on the agenda. ITC ILO workshop on...
I nvitation Debate (Spanish-french) Migrant women - Convention of Istambul. SIEMPRE aims to make visible and to strengthen the networks of Latina women in Europe and their contributions and points of view on women's rights, science, education, and culture.
Invitation to press briefing Predictions show that the EU will face a shortage of 70.000 ICT specialists by 2020, much due to the small number of women in these jobs. In Lithuania, 25% of ICT employees are women. This is not a lot, but actually much more than in most of the EU countries. The future does not look promising...