On February 28, 2018 an H2020 Gender Equality Plan (GEP) project networking and brainstorming event was organized by Unit B5 of the Research Executive Agency and Unit B7 of DG Research and Innovation.

Three parallel workshops were organized in a “World Café” style. Each workshop involved approximately 15 participants in funded GEP projects (both from FP7 and H2020), and they focused

Plotina advances in its international diffusion, and now it has been the Austrian Press Agency (APA) which has echoed the project, in cooperation with the ZSI.

The news highlights the following words from scientific director of PLOTINA, Prof. Tullia Gallina Toschi, on the objectives and context of the PLOTINA project: “Gender inequality leads to waste of talent If a research institution

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 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

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 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

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 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.

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