News & Events

The course Gender, sexualities, identities: from oppression to equality is being held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Rijeka this academic year (2019/2020) for the first time and it is a part of the Department of Cultural Studies curricula.

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020, which assesses universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), places our partner,  NOVA in first place in relation to the Gender Equality goal (SDG 5) and in 67^th worldwide, in a total of 548 institutions.

Promotion of a scientific monograph entitled "The Gender Perspective of the Budget Process" by Assistant Prof. Ana Marija Sikirić, Ph.D., will be held on Thursday, December 5th, 2019 at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Rijeka.

On September 4^th and 5^th, Joanneum Research conducted interviews at RWTH Aachen University for the Status Quo Assessment of our project.

Capacity Building Meeting in Athens, Friday September 27^th 2019.

On June 20 2019, Bulgarian SPEAR teams from University of Plovdiv "Paisii HilendarskI" and South-West University "Neofit Rilski" jointly organised a round table titled "The Benefits and Necessity of Policies in the Field of Equality between Women and Men in Academia and Research". The event was held at the premises of the University of Plovdiv.

Project Learning and Supporting Meetings (PLSMs) are important meeting points for all SPEAR’s participants. They provide SPEAR's Communities of Learning (CoL) and Communities of Practice (CoP) with their crucial structuring foundation, where the dynamics for both communities is established and maintained.

The Twitter campaign dedicated to the upcoming International Women's Day on March 8th 2019 is now running on Twitter under the hashtag #GendeRRIng.

The campaign is co-coordinated by GEECCO, ACT, SPEAR, EFFORTI, GENDERACTION, GearingRoles and Supera projects. The aim of the campaign is to share the opinions on the importance of gender equality at work or during studies in research organisations.

We launched our accounts on major social networks! Follow us to stay updated on the implementation of Gender Equality Plans in research and academia.

11 partners from 9 European countries will meet in Odense, Denmark between 23 and 25 January 2019 to mark the start of a four-year project supporting and implementing plans for gender equality in research and academia.