• Establishing the Association “ZA-Pravo LGBTIQ+” – Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (HR)

    The Student-Teacher Association (Za-Pravo) within the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Law was founded at the end of 2020. It seeks to create a safe, supportive environment, including organising weekly open meetings, conferences, round tables and guest lectures. It also offers education and campaigns for teachers and students in the Faculty of Law, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender...

  • Long-term development goal “Gender Equality and Rights of Women and Girls” – Riga Technical University (LV)

    RSU has yet to adopt a GEP. However, the “Sustainable Development Goals” section of its website emphasises “the person” as the RSU’s main value. It notes that gender equality is an integral value of the university and one of the basic elements for successful work, stating “gender equality = sustainable development”. RSU publishes current information on the topic of gender...

  • Monitoring Equal Opportunities – Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (AT)

    The FWF published its Equal Opportunity Monitoring, as recommended by the Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs. The measure seeks to increase the participation of women researchers in Austria since 2015. The monitoring is part of the FWF’s action plan on changing structures. Published each of the past two years, it presents a visualisation of facts and data to bring...

  • The Observatory of Research and Scientific Careers of the FRS-FNRS – FNRS Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.–FNRS) (BE)

    The independent Observatory for Research on Scientific Careers was created following the joint decision of representatives of the different French-speaking universities, the FWB (Federation Wallonia-Brussels) and FNRS (Fund for Scientific Research). It aims to create and follow up (missing and random) data on researchers in order to create a comprehensive, objective data collection. Its main goals are to monitor and...

  • Gender Equality Plan 2020–2027 – Estonian Research Council (ERC) (EE)

    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...

  • GEP – Academy of Finland (FI)

    The Academy of Finland’s Equality and Non-Discrimination Plan (2019-2020) applies to beneficiaries of the Academy’s research funding, as well as to employees of the Academy’s Administration Office. The Academy’s promotion of equality and non-discrimination includes three measures: (1) design of tools for systematic data collection on research funding and personnel operations, and developing follow-up indicators; (2) developing communications and training...

  • GEP – Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) (RO)

    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...

  • Implementation of target 3 of their Gender Equality – Research and Innovation Foundation (CY)

    The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) in Cyprus seeks to address gender inequalities and imbalances in R&I through the development and implementation of a context-specific GEP, which was developed as part of the TARGET project. The overall objective of the GEP 2018–2020 is to build institutional capacity to facilitate cultural change that goes beyond the formal adoption of a GEP...

  • Small Grant Scheme for female scientists in technical sciences (SGS) – National Centre for Research and Development (PL)

    The measure is a part of the programme Applied Research, implemented under the Norwegian Financial Mechanism established under the priority sector Innovation, Research, Education and Competitiveness, which aims at enhancing the performance of Polish applied research, and was proposed in response to the underrepresentation of female researchers, both in terms of their number and their professional role in technical sciences...

  • Supporting young mother researchers – The National Research, Development and Innovation Office (HU)

    The MTA launched a new funding scheme in 2018 for researchers raising young children. The aim of the call is to support women researchers with young children and single fathers of young children preparing a scientific thesis to be submitted for the degree of Doctor of Science (the next academic career step). The application was announced in 2018 and 2020...

  • Enterprise Ireland 2020 Action Plan for women in Business; fuelling growth through diversity – Enterprise Ireland (IE)

    The government’s trade and innovation agency, Enterprise Ireland, launched the “2020 Action Plan for Women in Business: Fuelling growth through diversity”. The Action Plan aims to drive national economic success by increasing the participation of women in entrepreneurship and business leadership, creating funding that targets women entrepreneurs and women researchers with the potential to advance their research into viable business...

  • Gender Equality in the National R&I Funding Programme FUSION – Malta Council for Science and Technology (MT)

    The national R&I funding programme, FUSION, is managed by the MCST. The funding rules were revised in 2017 to make the implementation of gender equality the decisive factor in cases where two or more research projects score the same in their evaluation. The specific provision states that “if two or more projects obtain the same mark following evaluation, then [the]...