European Commission
Description of the GENDER-NET project on CORDIS
Gender Equality & Gender Mainstreaming in Research: encouraging gender diversity to foster science excellence and relevance is one of the European Research Area’s five key priorities
Integration of gender in Horizon 2020, the 2014-2020 EU funding programme for research and innovation
- Gender as a cross-cutting issue in HORIZON 2020 Online Manual
- Vademecum on Gender Equality in Horizon 2020
- Gender Equality Policy in the H2020 Science with and for Society (SWaFS) work programme, and within the EC’s Responsible Research and Innovation framework (learn more about RRI on this EC video).
- SWaFS e-Library on gender equality related EC reports and other publications
- Horizon 2020 Advisory Group on Gender
The Helsinki Group on Women and Science, the EC’s advisory group on gender issues in research and innovation
European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE)
NET-WATCH platform on transnational R&D programme collaboration, and more specifically on ERA-NETs
Related European initiatives and projects
GenPORT portal for gender and science resources
genderSTE COST targeted policy-driven network dedicated to advancing the state of the art in knowledge and policy implementation on gender, science, technology and engineering
Gendered Innovations EU-US project for providing scientists and engineers with practical methods for sex and gender analysis
Yellow Window toolkit on how to integrate gender in EU-funded research
Science Europe Working Group on Gender and Diversity
LERU (League of European Research Universities) Working Group on Gender
European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS)
Projects on structural change in research and higher education institutions through the implementation of gender equality plans, funded through the FP7 Science-in-Society and Horizon 2020 work programmes:
- INTEGER - Institutional Transformation for Effecting Gender Equality in Research - see on partners’ websites: TCD, GESIS, SU, CNRS
- GENIS LAB - Gender in Science and Technology Lab
- STAGES - Structural Change Toward Gender Equality in Science
- FESTA - Female Empowerment in Science and Technology Academia
- GENDERTIME - Transferring Implementing Monitoring Equality
- GENOVATE - Transforming Organisational Culture for Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
- TRIGGER - Transforming Institutions by Gendering contents and Gaining Equality in Research
- EGERA - Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia
- GARCIA - Gendering the Academy and Research: combating Career Instability and Asymmetries
- GENERA - Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area
- LIBRA - Leading Innovative measures to reach gender Balance in Research Activities
- PLOTINA - Promoting gender balance and inclusion in research, innovation and training
- Equal-IST - Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions
Related non-EU initiatives
US National Science Foundation (NSF): ADVANCE Program for Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers
US National Institutes of Health (NIH): Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
Related Conferences
Gender Summits dedicated to supporting and advancing excellence and effectiveness of research and innovation through the inclusion of gender
European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education
2016 edition (Paris, France, Sept. 12-14, 2016);
2014 edition (Vienna, Austria, Sept. 3-5, 2014) and 2012 edition (Bergen, Norway, Aug. 29-31, 2012)
Conference on Structural Change Promoting Gender Equality in Research Organisations (SAPGERIC) held under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency to the EU Council (Vilnius, Nov. 21-22, 2013)