News & Announcements

African Fashion Show “Different but Equal” “Second Generation” without borders” (26/10/2013) Athens

United African Women Organization invites you on Saturday the 26th of October (18:00 – 24:00) at Gazi (D 10) to an original event – fashion show of African traditional dresses and designs. Come and meet designers from Africa, participate in interesting discussions, discover African dances and listen to music from our “second generation”. We are […]

New traineeship at the European Institute for Gender Equality in Vilnius.

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) invites applications with a view to establishing a reserve list in connection with a traineeship opportunity for a graduate who is either a national of an EU member state or an EFTA country. The traineeship shall be based at the Institute’s offices in Vilnius, Lithuania. The registration of […]

EU Prize for Women Innovators (until 15 October 2013)

  After a successful first edition in 2011, the European Commission has launched the second edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators to reward three women who have developed outstanding innovations and brought them to market. The contest is open until 15 October 2013, 5:00 pm (Brussels time) to all women who have founded […]

New book: “Women and Austerity-The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality” Edited by Maria Karamessini and Jill Rubery

This edited volume is the outcome of original scientific work presented by the authors in two international symposia on ‘Women, Gender Equality and Economic Crisis’. The first symposium was held in Athens on the 1st and 2nd December 2011 and was organized by the Centre for Gender Studies of the Social Policy Department of Panteion […]

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Athens- international experts’ conference “Gender in the Crisis – the impact and the way forward in Europe”, Athens, 5&6/2013.

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Athens has the pleasure to invite you to the international experts’ conference “Gender in the Crisis – the impact and the way forward in Europe”, to be held in Athens on 5 & 6 April 2013. The need to address this issue has arisen from the visible social, political and economic consequences […]

Lecture by the director of the European Institute for Gender Equality with th title “Are we on the way to real gender equality?”Athens, 9/4/2013

The Centre for Gender Studies – Department of Social Policy, Panteion University invites you to the lecture by Virginija Langbakk, Director of the European Institute for Gender Equality (http://www.eige.europa.eu/) with the title “Are we on the way to real gender equality?”. The lecture will be held on Tuesday 9th of April 2013 at 5.30 p.m. […]

European Conference “Advancing Gender Training to Support Effective Gender Mainstreaming”, Vilnius 13-14 November, 2012

Gender mainstreaming is an ambitious policy strategy to promote equality between women and men. The strategy is not a goal in itself; but, a political mechanism to implement,monitor and evaluate the integration of gender concerns into all policy decisions, legal frameworks, activities and programmes. Despite strong political commitments to gender mainstreaming, progress towards gender aware […]

Call for stream proposals and pre-conference workshops 6th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, 2013, Athens, Greece 1-3 July, 2013, Athens University of Economics and Business

Conference theme: social solidarity, equality, diversity and inclusion Deadline for the submission of themes: November 1, 2012 A wide range of streams is being welcome about all types of research questions and strands of diversity. We welcome divergent thinking and challenging questions that help create spaces for the exchange of brave new ideas on social […]

Summer Institute and International Symposium:”Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics” (July 17 – 29, 2012) Hosted by Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

GEM-IWG is pleased to announce the 2012 cycle of its Knowledge Networking and Capacity Development Program on gender, macroeconomics and international economics. This program aims to facilitate the integration of a gender perspective into macroeconomic research and policy formulation. The purpose of the program is to continue to build upon and expand the knowledge network […]

European Conference on Gender and Innovation – Maximising Innovation Potential Through Diversity in Research Organisations, 19th – 20th March 2012, Stuttgart, Germany

The conference “Maximising Innovation Potential through Diversity in Research Organisations” will gather experts from international and European organisations presenting and discussing how we can achieve a better impact in our gender activities. The conference invites all stakeholders to join the debate for increasing the innovation potential through more diversity and gender equality in research and […]