The Estonian Marine Institute was invited to participate in the Horizon 2020 project “Baltic Gender”, which aimed to promote gender equality in marine research institutions. One specific measure was the development of (voluntary) GEPs in all partner institutes. The general goal of the GEP is to promote equality through institutional change in order to optimise human capacity to address the...
The ERC’s GEP aims to ensure equal opportunities for all women and men researchers. It seeks gender equality in all of its activities and supports all researchers, regardless of their gender (or their sexual orientation, nationality, age, other personal characteristics). The ERC believes that society will benefit most from science when researchers are diverse and the research itself considers gender...
At Vilnius University, gender equality is one constituent of the general Equal Opportunities Policy. The University’s GEP is one of the measures in the “Implementation Plan for the period 2020–2022” for its “Diversity and Equal Opportunities Strategy 2020–2025” . The GEP is also part of the University’s commitments under the EU-funded SPEAR project. The GEP was developed at the end...
The University of Rijeka developed their GEP with the SPEAR project team and different stakeholders – local community members, national policy actors and other institutions developing GEPs in Croatia. The GEP addresses four major areas where inequalities have been detected, which are (1) the institutional culture of GE, (2) GE in scientific and artistic research, (3) GE in teaching and...
In 2019, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) became the first academic organisation to implement a fully-fledged GEP. Created within the framework of the European project “R&I PEERS” (2018-2022), it built on the qualitative and quantitative assessment of gender equality in the institution that was conducted as part of the GARCIA[1] project (2014–2017)...
The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding has developed a GEP. The initiative is part of the Horizon 2020 CALIPER project (2020-2023), which aims to implement structural change and build gender equality expertise in organisations. The Agency conducted an internal and external gender equality assessment and its draft GEP was adopted in mid-September 2021. Further information...
The University of Cologne’s Strategy for Equal Opportunities was co-created as part of a two-year dialogue with student and employee representatives. It includes specific action plans against all grounds of discrimination, which are currently being implemented. The thematically varied strategy follows different principles: (1) empowerment: participatory development of the strategy; (2) evidence-based: current research is taken into account when developing...
The measure is based on the gender policy Leaving No One Behind – Equality & Inclusion Policy of VLIR-UOS , which is the updated policy to be implemented between 2020–2024. The Gender Working group of the Flemish Interuniversity Council consists of policymakers of the different universities, an academic gender expert and people in charge of personnel and research policy. In...
The measure, funded by the EI.JU, is based on the assessment of JU employees’ needs and addresses the gap in research and publication opportunities experienced by JU employees who have combined research and teaching work with parental care for children under the age of 15 during the COVID-19 pandemic.The call for mini grants shall be open to male and female...
In 2019, the CNRS’s West Occitan sector set up support measures for new parents, both mothers and fathers. An annual information day discusses parenthood (single parents, same-sex parents, evolution relationships within families, stereotypes, etc.). Individual interviews are also available for both mothers and fathers, before and after their parental leave. The objective is to support employees, improve work-life balance, and...
In 2015, a structured childcare service was installed at Polytechnic of Milan, one of the largest technical universities in Northern Italy. During the summer and Easter school holidays, on-site childcare is available for employees’ children aged four (first year of kindergarten) to 13 years (last year of junior high school) at the two Milan campuses. The cooperative Il Melograno has...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, some organisations had increased the availability of telework for a larger number of their employees (ZRC SAZU), or extended the option to work from home for a higher number of days (National Institute of Chemistry). This facilitates researchers to balance work and family life and organise their own time. The measure targeted employees of all...