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Funding date:
2014
Related areas:
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Target groups:
Researchers
Students
Diversities:
Gender gap
Description:

EGERA intends to promote a full set of measures to achieve gender equality and fight gender-based stereotypes in research and the academia.
EGERA is a tool for gender equality in research and higher education and bringing a gender perspective in research contents and outputs. Definition of actions plans to articulate a structural understanding of gender inequalities and bias in research with a set of actions covering the most salient issues with respect to the recruitment, retention, appraisal and empowerment of women in research, and to the mainstreaming of gender knowledge across disciplinary fields.

Countries where it operates:
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey.
Funding institutions:

FP7-SIS - SiS.2013.2.1.1-1 - Supporting changes in the organisation of research institutions to promote Gender Equality.

Corporate partners:

FONDATION NATIONALE DES SCIENCES POLITIQUES, UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT, MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN, UNIVERSITAET VECHTA, CENTRO DE ESTUDOS PARA A INTERVENCAO SOCIAL, USTAV VYZKUMU GLOBALNI ZMENY AV CR VVI

Keywords:
european project, gender equality plans, good practices, higher education, research institutions, toolkit.