News & Events

Leveraging on the International Day for the Elimination of violence against women (25 November), the SPEAR project is joining forces with sister projects involved in structural change for gender equality in research and academia (UNISAFE, SUPERA, TARGET, TARGETED-MPI, GEARING ROLES) as well as with other interested sister projects, organisations, and individuals, to raise awareness on gender-based violence in research and academia through a campaign running between 22 and 29 November.

On Sunday October 31, 2021, Natalija Mažeikienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania), Aurelija Novelskaitė and Daiva Skučienė (Vilnius University, Lithuania), and Sybille Reidl (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria), presented on the topic Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions: An Agenda for Feminist Institutionalism in Context of Neoliberalist Reforms at the “Gendering Transformations: Feminist Knowledge Production and Trans/national Activist Engagement” conference, during the session dedicated to “Narrating and Situating LGBT/Gender in Education”.

The EIGE published its new Gender Equality Index 2021. The Index measures progress towards Gender Equality across EU-27 countries over 6 core domains: work, money, knowledge, time, power, and health, plus two additional domains violence, and intersecting inequalities.

We are pleased to announce that our Lithuanian partners Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and Vilnius University will take part in two webinars on gender equality implementation both held on the 18 of November.

On September 28, 2021 Ecorys, on behalf of the European Commission, conducted the first of a series of training on Gender Equality Plans (GEPs).

On the 18^th of September, we celebrated the International Equal Pay Day. Established in 2019 by the United Nations General Assembly, this day remarks the continuous efforts at the international level to make the slogan “equal pay for equal work” a reality.

This concludes an extensive effort facilitated by SDU’s Gender Equality Team (GET) and the university’s central and local gender equality committees, which prior to the Executive Board’s stamp of approval have involved a number of councils and committees across SDU.

On 18 May 2021, the University Senate of our project partner University of Rijeka (UNIRI) in Croatia adopted its Gender Equality Plan (GEP) for the period 2021-2025.

We are pleased to announce that the RWTH Aachen University SPEAR team together with the German colleagues from the sister projects CHANGE and LeTSGEPs are organising a joint online conference to be held on 25 and 26 November 2021, with a kind contribution from our project partners at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and University of Rijeka (UNIRI).

The SeeRRI project has worked tirelessly for three years to find a framework that allows territories to put Responsible Research and Innovation principles at the core of their smart specialisation stratregy. 

Our partners, Vilnius University and Vytautas Magnus University, are organising online events on the 19th-20th of May 2021, dedicated to discussing process of designing and implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEP) at Lithuanian institutions of higher education.