This factsheet provides information on the challenges of gender quality and how to tackle them as well as key tips for developing a GEP.

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This factsheet gives an overview of the current concrete actions steps that have to been taken to reach gender equality within the European Union.

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The EU Gender Equality Strategy presents policy objectives and actions to make significant progress by 2025 towards a gender-equal Europe. The key objectives are ending gender-based violence; challenging gender stereotypes; closing gender gaps in the labour market; achieving equal participation across different sectors of the economy; addressing the gender pay and pension gaps; closing the gender care gap and achieving gender balance in decision-making and in politics. The Strategy pursues a dual approach of gender mainstreaming combined with targeted actions, and intersectionality is a horizontal principle for its implementation.

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This Guidance supports organisations to meet the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) eligibility criterion of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027. This Guidance presents the components of the eligibility criterion as set by the European Commission, explains what these requirements mean in practice when developing and implementing a GEP or reviewing the equivalence of existing plans or policies, and provides concrete practical examples, building on existing materials, good practices and various resources that support gender equality in research and innovation (R&I) at national and institutional levels.

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The European Institute for Gender Equality also offers a complete step by step guide.

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The SAGE Wheel Toolkit for designing Gender Equality Plans in higher education institutions is designed to facilitate the process of drafting effective Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in higher education institutions. The toolkit guidelines provide a set of standards for developing and implementing GEPs as well as self-assessment for gender equality within institutions. It also includes a framework for inter-institutional mentoring to guide the process.

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On this website you will find advice on how to draft a gender equality plan. It also offers an excel document to design your own GEP, create the annual work plans, do the follow-up of the implementation and gather qualitative results of the implemented actions.

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LIBRA is EC funded project which brings together ten research institutes in life sciences in ten European countries. Together with the support of an expert organisation on gender, they assess their current policies and procedures to identify gender biases and obstacles.

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GENERA is a Horizon 2020 project aiming at continuing, monitoring and improving the Gender Equality Plans of Research Institutions and Organisations specifically in the physics research field.

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PLOTINA is aiming to enable the development, implementation, and assessment of self-tailored Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) with innovative and sustainable strategies for the Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) involved.

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TARGET is a SwafS-03-2016-2017 Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission Program H2020.

The main goal of TARGET is to contribute to the advancement of gender equality in Research and Innovation by addressing Gender-related institutional barriers to careers , decision making and Research & Innovation and High Education curricula content.

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SAGE (Systemic Action for Gender Equality) is an EU-Horizon 2020 funded project designed to seek stronger action on gender equality in higher education and research.

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The EQUAL-IST project (Gender Equality Plans for Information Sciences and Technology Research Institutions) aims at introducing structural changes to enhance gender equality in Information Sciences and Technology (IST) research institutions. The project aims to address ERA objectives in relation to gender equality by supporting seven Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) from Northern, Southern and Central European countries, as well as one CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) country in developing and implementing tailored Gender Equality Plans (GEPs).

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Baltic Gender is an EU-funded project that brings together eight scientific institutions in five countries around the Baltic Sea to work on reducing gender inequalities in Marine Science and Technology.

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GEECCO aims to establish tailor-made Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in four European universities (RPOs) and to implement the gender dimension in two research funding organisations (RFOs) in funding schemes, programmes, and review processes.

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Mentoring for change was a gender-integrated mentoring programme conducted in 2018/2019 by the Faculty of Science at Lund University. The report is based on material produced before, during and after the programme, and on the survey that the participants responded to at the end of the programme.

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In this blog, a research assistant in the GEARING-Roles project team from University of Ljubljana looks at the meeting between two Slovenian institutions implementing gender equality plans, where best practices were shared, challenges were debated, risks and risk management practices were shared, and inter-institutional support was enhanced.

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University of Beira Interior (UBI) was the first university in Portugal to set up a gender equality plan as early as 2011. Since 2012, Gender Equality Reports have been prepared on an annual basis to monitor the progress towards gender equality in the university. The analysis provided in the reports considers the gender balance in terms of disciplines taught and on decision-making and leadership positions, the gender pay gap, the use of measures to reconcile professional and personal life (like flexible working hours), a gender analysis of the utilisation of leaves, and information about the number of students disaggregated by sex and faculty.

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Goethe University Frankfurt established the Gender & Diversity Controlling in 2010. The Gender & Diversity Controlling aims at monitoring developments with respect to gender (in)equalities across the university, as well as at providing guidance and support, and monitoring gender equality-related efforts within the 16 faculties (Fachbereiche) of Goethe University Frankfurt.

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