The first Steering Committee meeting and General Assembly were held on this occasion, with progress reports presented by Work Package co-Leaders, and invited presentations from our Project Officer at the European Commission (on gender in Horizon 2020 and related EU resources) and from two of our Expert Advisory Board members: Anke Lipinsky, from CEWS/GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany (on the study she carried out for the EC on the implementation of national gender equality policies in public research in the ERA) and Londa Schiebinger from Stanford University in the US (on the Gendered Innovations project and existing national-level funding programmes).