
PLOTINA in Basque Newspapers
PLOTINA project received an extended coverage by most read newspapers in Basque Country.
PLOTINA partners Mondragon Unibertsitatea and Elhuyar explained some of the challenges and objectives to be achieved through the project.
El Diario Vasco offered a full page report in Spanish, which header is “Igualdad pendiente en la ciencia” – Equality pending in science
Gara, on the other hand, published a two

PLOTINA in Turkish national media
PLOTINA has received press coverage in almost every national media organ in Turkey
The occasion was International Women’s Day and the news reported was in the format of an interview with Dr Berna Zengin Arslan, featuring as the spokesperson for the Ozyegin Universitesi (OzU) PLOTINA team. As for the content, it mostly comprises data from OzU‘s own audit and OECD as

PLOTINA with an initiative of the Swedish Embassy
The ISEG –Lisbon School of Economics & Management– and the H2020 PLOTINA –Promoting Gender Balance and Inclusion in Research Innovation and Training– Project were associated with the initiative of the Swedish Embassy within the scope of the Swedish Dads project, which in Portugal adopted the designation of “Parents With Love”, and jointly organize the Photography Contest and the “Parents with

PLOTINA on Basque public TV
Plotina has been presented in the programme “Ahoz aho” on the ETB1 channel of the Basque public television broadcaster (ETB).
The presenter Ilaski Serrano asked the show’s scientific guest Ana Galarraga about the Plotina project, and Ana spoke about its main objectives and key aspects.
The presenter expressed interest in the project and promised to offer it the chance to participate in

Deadline extended: Call for applications – peer reviewers for Gender Equality Plans
PLOTINA project needs three external reviewers of the Gender Equality Plans’ progress.
The overall objective of PLOTINA is to enable the development, implementation and assessment of self-tailored #Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) with innovative and sustainable strategies for the Research Performing Organizations (RPOs) involved. The progress made by the PLOTINA RPOs, in terms of governance of #gender equality policies, strategies and processes, gender equality in recruitment, career

PLOTINA at MU’s online television channel
Plotina RPOs partner Mondragon Unibertsitatea echoes the Plotina project in its online television channel, with a report on its general aims, and specifically, telling about the activities carried out within the university related to gender equality.

GENERA workshop for experts and practitioners
On January 22 and 23, 2018, PLOTINA attended at Kings College London the Network Meeting for experts and practitioners of GENERA project, the Gender Equality Network in the European Research Area.
The aim of the Workshop is to discuss up-to-date evidence and best practice for GEP design and implementation in physics research organisations and to establish the genera network as a

Sharing experiences of the first year of implementing Gender Equality Plans in Research Performing Organisations
The PLOTINA Project Istanbul meeting was held at the Özyeğin University from January 10 to 12, 2018.
On Wednesday 10th the workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation presented by Maria Schwarz-Woelzl from ZSI was held. Its purpose was to discuss the lessons learned from the data collection and insertion into the Gender Equality Plans (GEP), and anticipate the upcoming steps.
On Thursday 11th

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