
PLOTINA project video
PLOTINA Project promotional video.
The approach of PLOTINA project is to simplify the process to perform a gender audit and to approve a gender equality plan in universities and research performing organizations. Gender equality plans can identify some of the barriers and obstacles and can help identify ways to overcome those. It is important not only to belief in gender equity

Özyeğin University at three gender equality events
Özyeğin University (ÖzU) hosted a panel titled “Science, engineering, gender”
On December 5, 2019, ÖzU’s Gender Equality Unit and the PLOTINA Team organized a panel titled “Science, Engineering, Gender,” which focused on the current gender-related issues in positive sciences and engineering. The panelists discussed questions such as gender inequalities in their own fields, what universities could do to overcome these problems and how gender could be integrated into

PLOTINA at Gearing Roles Sister Project Conference
PLOTINA project joined the first annual conference of the EU PROJECT GEARING ROLES, hold on 27 November 2019, in Lisbon.
Elsa Fontainha, the representative of ISEG ( Lisbon School of Economics and Management — Universidade de Lisboa) at the PLOTINA project, participated in the roundtable entitled ” Addressing Gender Inequalities in Academia: challenges and strategies overcome resistances

Özyeğin University: Hire a gender equality expert
The Özyeğin Unversity shows two of the initiatives they have undertaken: the development of a gender equality unit, as well as joinging of a gender expert to their team.
The most important thing for the university was to institutionalize gender equality as a policy. That strongs the commitment of the university to make gender and gender equality equal value of the

PLOTINA WINTER SCHOOL: The Road from Reviewer to Editor in Food Science and Agriculture Journals
This five-day school will acquaint participants with the roles and tasks of reviewers and editors of Food Science and Agriculture journals. Best practices in scientific publishing will be examined to initiate critical discussion around the question “Why are we publishing in food science and agriculture journals in the first place?”. Starting with an overview of the skills and tools

PLOTINA at the Gender Summit 17
PLOTINA Project is joining the Gender Summit 17 in Amsterdam presenting its best practice implemented in the Università di Bologna thanks to ELH KOM cooperation. Here you are few tips to contrast unconscious bias and foster gender equality in Research Performing Organizations. You can download the poster and watch the video below.

Best practices from the PLOTINA Gender Equality Plan in the Mondragon University: Sexual harassment prevention
Mondragon Unibertsitatea shows the protocol they developed to deal with sexual harassment.
This video highlights the objectives pursued to launch this initiative, the lessons they learnt during the process, and the results they achieved, both the expected ones and the unexpected ones. They really belief that it is neccesary to invest time and money on creating culture, to make people aware

Economics of the Household and Gender
On 25 -28 June, 2019, took place Economics of the Household and Gender, the second summer school Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG) has organised about gender. The program included sessions about history of Household Economics (HHE) since the early 20 th Century, with an emphasis on the role of women; modeling decision-making in households; empirical studies on labor

PLOTINA at the EQUALIST Final Conference
Maria Mantini Satta was present at the second part of EQUAL-IST (https://equal-ist.eu/ Horizon 2020) final conference in Bruxelles on 22 May 2019.
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 Toolkit, targeted at Research Organizations with a focus on ICT (Information

PLOTINA at the EFFORTI Final Conference
Maria Mantini Satta of Progetto Donna has represented Plotina at the EFFORTI Final Conference in Bruxelles on 21-22 May 2019 (https://www.efforti.eu/).
EFFORTI project (Horizon 2020) has developed an evaluation framework in terms of an off – and online toolbox to show potential outputs, outcomes and impacts of a variety of Gender Equality (GE) policies, from mentoring to the implementation of gender