EuroCirCol Gender Equality Monitoring and actions Geneviève Guinot CERN Diversity Programme Leader Tuesday, 2 June 2015 Administration and WP Management Kick-Off Meeting Magda Kowalska, CERN Experimental Physicist, with Geneva school girls at the 2013 Expand your Horizons event at the University of Geneva. Photo: Guillaume Mégevand

promote equal opportunities and ensure a balanced participation of women and men at all levels in research and innovation teams and in management structures Context  Fostering gender balance in research teams  Ensuring gender balance in decision-making  Integrating gender /sex analysis in research and innovation (R&I) content

Gender equality in EuroCirCol  Commitment from the consortium  Monitoring  periodic reports  Informing, raising awareness  WP1 deliverable DL1.2  Encourage best practices  Establish a taskforce with representatives from all partner institutes

 Monitor gender participation in EuroCirCol related activities  Encourage best practices across the consortium  Improve awareness through information  Identify actions to (1 st steps at FCC 2015 Annual Meeting) improve attractiveness / encourage applications  APS, DoE, IEEE presentations create conditions for equitable careers and their development for both, women and men  APS and NFS presentations Typical gender equality related actions  Monitor gender participation in EuroCirCol related activities  Encourage best practices across the consortium  Improve awareness through information

Initial Communication Actions - examples Filmed interviews of women working in various fields at CERN Information on funding opportunities Gender neutral language CERN-PHOTO

Next steps – Concluding remarks Hiring representatives from partner institutes - end of Q First deliverables -Initial proposal for a Roadmap – EDMS # Road Map for Gender Equality in the FCC Study -An example of gender specific communication tools – Video -A pilot of country contexts and organisational practices -Working Group session at the FCC Annual meeting – March 2015 – first occurrence of exchange of practices and ideas -Presentation at EuroCirCol kick-off meeting – June 2015 Establishment of the Task force: structure, work method and plan of work Task force kick-off meeting Q Gender action plan to WP1 Management First results presented at EuroCirCol Annual Meeting May 2016