Project

Gender Equality Academy

Project duration: 
2019 - 2021

The general goal of the GE Academy project is to develop and implement a coherent and high-quality capacity-building programme on gender equality (GE) in research and innovation (R&I) as well as in Higher Education (HE). GE Academy will develop and provide a series of comprehensive training formats and tailor-made training materials for trainers, practitioners and researchers, making these available to the widest possible audience in Europe and beyond. The GE Academy, with its full capacity-building programme including different training formats (Train-the-Trainers, physical trainings and interactive workshops, Summer Schools, webinars, online Distributed Open Collaborative Courses), will be built and executed in at least 15 countries. Through its ambitious setup, the project aims at filling a gap in the current EU research landscape, marked by ongoing gender inequality in research organisations, the gender dimension of R&I being ignored or under-addressed, whereas needs in terms of gender awareness and capacity are recognised, but efforts to remedy the situation are still fragmented. The project will respond to the needs of those who contribute to and are involved in institutional change towards gender equality in R&I as well as in HE. The GE Academy will both tackle issues of gender equality in research institutions and research teams through structural change and address the gender dimension of research contents, following the three main ERA objectives for gender equality in research. At the same time, a pan-European network of gender trainers will be established, trained, coached and upskilled for delivering gender training sessions to R&I and HE communities in Europe and beyond. Throughout the project’s lifetime, attention will be paid to seeking modalities and solutions for ensuring the sustainability of the GE Academy project beyond the EU funding period.

 

 

Principal investigator: 
Apostolos Vontas, VILABS OE
Lut Mergaert, YELLOW WINDOW
Giovanna Murari, CONOSCENZA E INNOVAZIONE SOCIETA ARESPONSABILITA LIMITATA SEMPLIFICATA
Maria Sangiuliano, SMART VENICE SRL
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, CHARITE - UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN
Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
Bente Knoll, B NK GMBH
Laura Lagan, THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
Elisabeth Kohler, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
Lilla Jakobs, KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM
Linda Rustad, NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD
Topics: 
EU
gender
Grant agency: 
International project

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