Work-Life-Balance and Gender Criteria in Quality Assessment

Work-Life-Balance and Gender Criteria in Quality Assessment

On 3rd December 2021, TARGET organised a co-creation workshop on work-life-balance and gender criteria in quality assessment. While gender equality has long been enshrined as a goal in research performing and recently also in research funding organisations, this is most often not the case in higher education quality assurance agencies. Neither ENQA, the European Association […]

Rulebook on Prevention and Protection from Sexual harassment-From Policy to Implementation. National conference of the TARGET project in Serbia – University of Belgrade

Rulebook on Prevention and Protection from Sexual harassment-From Policy to Implementation. National conference of the TARGET project in Serbia – University of Belgrade

University of Belgrade’s final national conference within the TARGET project was held on December 14 2021. It was an online gathering of more than 50 participants, including members of the academic community, representatives of UB’s management, government officials and representatives of international agencies and organizations, with the focus on the topic of “Rulebook on Prevention […]

ELIAMEP event on ‘Integrating gender in studies on South-East Europe and Turkey’

ELIAMEP event on ‘Integrating gender in studies on South-East Europe and Turkey’

On Friday, 10 December 2021 the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), within the context of the research project TARGET, and with the support of the Turkey Programme and the South-East Europe Programme at ELIAMEP, organised an online workshop on ‘Integrating gender in studies on South-East Europe and Turkey’. Despite the growth of gender studies in South-East Europe […]

SUSTAINABILITY AND GENDER EQUALITY

SUSTAINABILITY AND GENDER EQUALITY

RMEI TARGET FINAL CONFERENCE. Cairo 27-28 November 2021 RMEI has co-organized with the president prof FATMA ASHOUR, Director of the Center of Hazard Mitigation, Environmental Studies and Research, Coordinator of the Green Process Engineering Master’s Program GPE at the Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University, the final TARGET dissemination event, in Cairo, the 27-28 of November […]

Sexual Harassment in Academia

Sexual Harassment in Academia

“Sexual harassment is an epidemic throughout global higher education systems” – with these words Bondestam & Lundqvist(2020) start their systematic review on sexual harassment in higher education. Sexual harassment can include, but is not limited to, unwelcome touching, hugging or kissing; sexually suggestive comments, cartoons or jokes that offend others; indecently exposing oneself to another person; […]

Lessons Learned From TARGET and GEECCO– a First Assessment

Lessons Learned From TARGET and GEECCO– a First Assessment

By Angela Wroblewski (Institute for Advanced Studies, IHS), Coordinator of TARGET On 11th March 2021, the joint conference of the two H2020 structural change projects GEECCO – Gender Equality in Engineering through Communication and Commitment – and TARGET – Taking a reflexive approach to gender equality for institutional transformation – took place. Even though the projects differ […]

The gender dimension in teaching content

The gender dimension in teaching content

A workshop on the gender dimension in teaching content was held on 8th April 2021 at the University Hassan II Casablanca. It is one of the few universities in Morocco with gender research structures providing Master and PhD courses.  The objective of the workshop was to open a debate at the university in order to […]

New GEPs publication by ELIAMEP

New GEPs publication by ELIAMEP

In January 2021, ELIAMEP issued a publication in Greek on Gender Equality Plans (GEPs), based on the three tools developed within TARGET (gender equality audit, designing a GEP, and monitoring and self-assessment). This publication aims to raise awareness about the value of a GEP and provide guidance on how to initiate and implement it  The publication builds […]

The role of female experts in the fight against Covid19: an interview with Paola Bello, Project Manager at Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica

The role of female experts in the fight against Covid19: an interview with Paola Bello, Project Manager at Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica

20/08/2020 Paola Bello Translation from the original article: https://www.ingenere.it/articoli/una-questione-di-competenze It is still too early to assess the effects of this pandemics on gender equality in Italy and in Europe; however, it is already possible to proceed with some observations. [1] As a starting point, we can analyse some data related to health organizations in Italy, […]