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Advancing Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: The Need for Stronger GEP Implementation

The European Commission’s report, Impact of Gender Equality Plans across the European Research Area, provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving policy landscape surrounding Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in research and innovation (R&I). The study examines the impact of EU and national policies on the development and implementation of GEPs. The report also evaluates their influence on gender equality in ERA. The introduction of GEPs as a mandatory requirement for receiving Horizon Europe funding marked...

Warning Sign for European Research and Innovation: New She Figures Data Reveal Gender Equality Gaps in Science

The European Commission has published a She Figures report for 2024, presenting the latest EU-wide statistics on gender equality in research and innovation. The figures show that women outnumber men in higher education but remain under-represented in research, particularly in STEM and leadership positions. All of that might significantly harm the European Union’s competitiveness.  While the new report confirms a slight progress in the overall representation of women in science, it shows a significant gender...

Why and how does academia need to change? We ask women scientists and students

Bossing, bullying, and discouraging women from science, as well as underfunding research and using students as cheap labour. In our campaign on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we have asked women scientists and students what barriers they face and what changes they would like to see in the academic system. In this article, we share a view by an IOCB scientist, Denise-Liù Gracias Leone. The campaign is organised...

Change in the academic environment is inevitable. We are launching a campaign for International Women and Girls in Science Day

Gender and Science department of the Institute of Sociology will celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science for the tenth time this year. Czech science can no longer ignore the structural inequalities that lead to a talent drain and suppression of the potential of women and other marginalised groups. In the spirit of this year’s international motto Accelerate Action, we want to emphasize that change is not only desirable, but necessary. What...

Save the Date! GENDERACTIONplus’ final conference is coming

Towards new Horizons: Inclusive Gender Equality in FP10 and Beyond When: 12 February 2025 | Where: Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels & online You can find the registration form here. Over the past three years, Horizon Europe project GENDERACTIONplus has worked to advance inclusive gender equality in the European Research Area. Our work is coming to a close at a time of intense policy negotiations that are shaping the future priorities for research and innovation, including...

The role of sex and gender in (bio)medical research 

This webinar is part of a series of guest workshops organised by the Centre for Gender and Science (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences) given by international experts intended to mainstream gender dimension in research and bring best practices and interesting examples into the Czech scientific context. The primary target groups are experts and scientists within the particular field. When: 26. 11. 2024, 16:30 – 18:00 CET Where: The interactive webinar will...

Brunch for Expat Women in Czech Science with Zsófia Csajbók

When: 7 May 2024, 10:00 – 12:30Event Address: Kampus Hybernská, Hyberská 4, Prague Registration is closed. At 7th of May, we organised a second Brunch for Expat Women in Czech Science, which we decided to organize in cooperation with Hyb4City after increasing requests. Our invitation was accepted by Zsófia Csajbók, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, who was a guest speaker at this event. Photographies from the event: As the...

Join our prevalence study and support a safe environment at universities and the Czech Academy of Sciences

Until the end of November, you can participate in our prevalence study focused on gender-based violence at Czech universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences. People whose institutions did not join the survey can also fill in the questionnaire. If you want to help us with the prevalence study, even if your institution did not participate in our unique survey, you can fill out the questionnaire at this link: https://rebrand.ly/0789dotaznikEN. Thank you for...

Astrid Linder: Vehicle occupant crash safety: Injury data, crash testing and the world’s first crash test dummy of an average female

When: 21. 11. 13:30 – 15:00 Where: Zoom Registration: here till 19. 11. We would like to kindly invite you to a webinar titled Vehicle occupant crash safety: Injury data, crash testing and the world’s first crash test dummy of an average female with Professor Astrid Linder, which is part of educational activities of Centre for Gender and Science focusing on gender dimension in research. On our roads 1.35 million people lose their lives yearly...

The prevalence study of gender-based violence in public universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences is on!

In the autumn of this year, we have launched a study on gender-based violence at public universities and institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences which is the first of its kind in the Czech academic environment. It will be a follow-up to the European study conducted within the Horizon 2020 UniSAFE project. This showed that nearly two in three people (62%) had experienced some form of gender-based violence. The most recent data on gender-based...