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H2020Doctoral network2020–2024

G-VERSITY · Achieving Gender Diversity

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-10-01 → 2024-09-30
EU contribution
€4,106,266
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity

The European Commission and the United Nations have committed to the sustainable development goal of achieving gender equality in education, political participation, and economic empowerment by 2030. To achieve this challenging goal, it is necessary to increase the representation of women and men as well as of sexual and gender minority groups (SGM) in several professions and positions. These include women in leadership positions, men in healthcare, early education, and domestic (HEED) careers, and SGM groups in areas where employers want a more representative workforce. To achieve gender diversity, private and public employers need researcher-trained employees who can make choices based on state-of-the-art theories, principles, and up-to-date methods to bring about more gender-equal policies and programmes of employment in Europe. The overarching objective of the European Training Network G-VERSITY was to provide high-level training in the emerging field of interdisciplinary gender diversity research to a new generation of researchers. G-VERSITY equipped 15 early stage researchers (ESRs) with the skills necessary for thriving careers in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, so that they are better qualified to develop and implement interventions to achieve a more balanced representation of women and men as well as of SGM groups in professions and positions in which these groups historically have been underrepresented. G-VERSITY established a unique combination of hands-on research training, non-academic secondments and courses, and workshops on scientific and transferable skills facilitated by the academic-non-academic composition of the consortium.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The European Training Network (ETN) G-VERSITY – Achieving Gender Diversity is an interdisciplinary and intersectoral doctoral training network for early stage researchers. G-VERSITY aims at fostering new kinds of expertise and jobs needed in Europe to help employers overcome the underrepresentation of women, men, and sexual and gender minority Groups (SGMs). The network constitutes a prototype for innovative doctoral training on gender diversity research. G-VERSITY joins 8 leading European research groups from psychology, education, management, business administration, media and communication studies with 7 non-academic partners, including a company working on the global certification for workplace gender equality, a city administration, a public broadcasting service, a media training centre, and 3 non-profit organisations. G-VERSITY will (1) determine how significant background factors affect educational and professional pathways of women, men, and SGMs, and (2) produce scientifically based interventions for use in the workplace—including workshops, guidelines, and training materials, to be applied by employers to attain gender diversity. G-VERSITY’s innovative practical toolbox with applicable knowledge for attaining gender diversity will be designed for use (a) by the public sector such as by policy makers, schools, and the media, and (b) by commercial and non-profit companies in recruitment, retention, and career advancement. The training consists of collaborative supervision of 15 individual research projects by academic and non-academic partners including mandatory intersectoral secondments, which will maximize early-stage researchers’ employability in academic and non-academic sectors. G-VERSITY’s results and activities will be widely communicated to the scientific community and society, for instance, through its interactive web platform SOLUTIONS, and improve the scientific and the public’s understanding of gender diversity.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITAET BERN · BernCoordinatorSwitzerland
  • EDGE STRATEGY AG · ZUGCity levelSwitzerland
  • FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN · BerlinGermany
  • HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
  • Psychologicky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, v.v.i. · BRNOCzechia
  • STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT · NijmegenNetherlands
  • STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · StockholmSweden
  • THE OPEN UNIVERSITY · Milton KeynesUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE · TriesteItaly
  • UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · GuildfordUnited Kingdom

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union