Baltic Consortium on Promoting Gender Equality in Marine Research Organisations

Project: Research

Project Details

Description

Baltic Gender was an EU-funded project that brought together eight scientific institutions in five countries around the Baltic Sea to work on reducing gender inequalities in Marine Science and Technology. The project was funded by the HORIZON 2020 programme under the call for promoting “Gender Equality in Research and Innovation” and the topic of “Support to research organisations to implement gender equality plans” (GERI-4-2015). Baltic Gender was coordinated by GEOMAR, Germany, and LU was one of the partners.

Acting as a platform for the exchange of institutional practices and the transfer of knowledge between the consortium partners, Baltic Gender worked towards the establishment and implementation of Gender Equality Plans in its partner institutions. These plans played an important role in committing institutions to long-term approaches, realistic targets and concrete measures. The project also established practical schemes and innovative strategies that promote gender equality.

Specific aims of the project were as following:

to promote gender-balanced career advancement in Marine Science and Technology, 

to establish strategies for promoting a family-friendly working culture,
to identify meaningful and effective structural changes in the partner institutions leading to an improvement of gender equality,
to develop methodologies for the enactment of gender-sensitive marine research,
to build competence and skills in gender sensitive teaching methods, 

to initiate gender focused training and mentoring in or across all partner institutions,
to develop recommendations to guide the implementation of Gender Equality Plans.

Popular science description

Baltic Gender was a project to increase the proportion of women at senior positions in marine science and technology. The consortium had eight partners from five countries and developed gender equality plans, trainings for young and senior staff, organized networking events and inspired new procedures on research cruises. More info is available on www.baltic-gender.eu.
Short titleBaltic Gender
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2016/09/012020/06/30