Integrating gender and intersectionality in research: from policy to practice

Materials from the European Online Event held on 28 May.

Materials from the European online event held on 28 May.

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Powerpoint Presentations

View the event programme.

EU policies on inclusive gender equality in research & innovation
Hana Tenglerová, Policy Officer, Gender Sector, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Framework for the Integration and Evaluation for an Inclusive Gender Analysis in research and Innovation content  (slides 1-13)
Lydia González Orta, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and Sophia Ivarsson, Vinnova – Sweden’s innovation Agency.

Tools to support an inclusive gender analysis in R&I developed by GENDERACTIONplus (slides 14-18) See useful links below too.
Lydia González Orta, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)

The intersectional hallucinations of synthetic data
Ericka Johnson, Professor of Gender and Society at Linköping University, Sweden

 

Useful Links

EU resources:

Framework for the Integration and Evaluation for an Inclusive Gender Analysis in research and Innovation Content developed by the European Research Area Forum Sub-group on Inclusive Gender Equality in the European Research Area, in close cooperation with the European Commission, with the aim to provide guidance to national authorities and research and innovation funding organisations on policy measures to ensure the effective implementation and evaluation of the integration of the gender dimension into research and innovation content from an intersectional perspective.

Gender in EU research and innovation – an information package and Q&As produced by the European Executive Research Agency (REA) for how to apply or comply with Horizon Europe funding principles.

Horizon Europe support for gender equality – overview of available resources and tools

Zero-Tolerance Code of Conduct. Counteracting gender-based violence, including sexual harassment, in the EU Research and Innovation System

Impact of gender equality plans in the European Research Area: FactsheetPolicy briefs & Main study

She Figures 2024: Europe-wide statistics on gender equality in Research and Innovation.

Fostering gender equality – Key figures from Horizon Europe

Training:

E-learning course on Gender Dimension in Research and Innovation (not only) for National Contact Points of Horizon Europe produced by GENDERACTIONplus.

GE Academy training courses

Reports produced by GENDERACTIONplus:

D4.1 Benchmarking report on guidelines and policies for sex/gender analysis in EU Member States and Associated Countries

D4.2 An assessment report on the national expertise mobilised to support National Contact Points

D2.1 A benchmarking report on terminology and policy on intersectionality

Policy recommendations developed by GENDERACTIONplus:

Position Paper n. 3: Supporting Gender Expertise among NCPs for Better Results on Inclusive Gender Analysis in R&I Horizon Europe

Position Paper n. 8: Driving Forward Inclusive Gender Analysis in R&I Policies

Synthetic data:

Article in the Conversation on Intersectional hallucinations: why AI struggles to understand that a six-year-old can’t be a doctor or claim a pension

Metadata/README elements for synthetic structured data made with GenAI: Recommendations to data repositories to encourage transparent, reproducible, and responsible data sharing

Synthetic data for Open Science: tools for researchers interested in making their synthetic data open

Other:

Invitation to join the GENDERACTIONplus Mobilisation Network for Inclusive Gender Equality in R&I.

What is the Gender Dimension in Research? booklet produced by Kilden genderresearch.no  presenting case studies from a variety of research fields, such as health and quality of life, food, agriculture and fisheries, energy, transport, environment and climate, and safe societies. The aim is to inspire researchers and others who want to learn more about how to work with the gender dimension in research. It is also available in Spanish. (Produced 2018 but currently being updated).

INSPIRE project Support Package for gender equality practitioners.

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