LeTSGEPs closing conference
The Marco Biagi Department of Economics and the Marco Biagi Foundation participated in the Final Conference of the H2020 project "Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in research performing organisations - LeTSGEPs", funded by the European Union, under the scientific responsibility of Prof. Tindara Addabbo.
In its four years of existence, the LeTSGEPs project had the main objective of guiding six universities and research centres: CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), France; Institut de Cičncies del Mar/ Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientķficas (ICM/CSIC), Spain; Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence (MPI-BI) (formerly Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology) and the Central Gender Equality Office of the Max Planck Society (MPG), Germany; Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MISANU), Serbia; University of Messina (UNIME), Italy; University of Tirana (UT), Albania. The RWTH AACHEN University (Germany) was also involved with the role of internal evaluator.
The design and implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) and their integration with gender budgeting ensures the inclusion of a gender perspective at all stages of the budget cycle.
The events took place on 23 and 24 November 2023 at the ULB premises in Brussels and the Workshop at the Emilia Romagna Region headquarters in Brussels.
The conference focused on the question of how GEPs and other equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives can be promoted, supported and sustained and how challenges in this regard can be overcome. For the completion of the CALIPER and LeTSGEPs projects, best practices emerged, reflecting on how challenges can be addressed to achieve long-term, inclusive and sustainable institutional change. In order to make GEPs sustainable, for instance, the importance of integrating Gender Equality Plans into the budget cycle was noted, evaluating the programmes put in place in terms of their impact on gender equality through gender budgets.
The conference developed through four consecutive panels on the projects' key topics: gender equality and structural change; intersectionality; gender budgeting; innovation ecosystems. The final session shared the two key outcomes of the projects: CALIPER's Charter for the promotion of inclusive gender equality in R&I organisations and ecosystems within the geographical, socio-economic, organisational and cultural contexts in which they operate, and the LeTSGEPs Handbook, which provides guidelines for the implementation of GEPs and gender budgeting aimed at supporting organisations in drafting GEPs and monitoring them.
The conference aimed to further disseminate the objective of interacting with public institutions for the creation of a gender-equitable environment. The vision of LeTSGEPs, together with the Training Materials and the Mentoring activities carried out, was presented by the scientific coordinator Prof. Tindara Addabbo of Unimore, followed by an analysis of the main successes in terms of wider impact on the context by the partners.
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Articolo pubblicato da: Ufficio Stampa Unimore - ufficiostampa@unimore.it il 30/11/2023