Gabriel Bianchi presented the ATHENA project during the online conference “Gender equality in European Research, Innovation and Higher Education”

Gabriel Bianchi, a member of the ATHENA project and Deputy Director at the Institute for Research in Social Communication of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, presented the ATHENA project during the online conference “Gender equality in European Research, Innovation and Higher Education”.

In the presentation, Gabriel Bianchi introduced his team’s experience on gender auditing during the first year of the ATHENA project implementation. It was highlighted the need for applying both quantitative and qualitative approaches in data collection to be able to study the high complexity of gender equality issues within the institutions. Following the gender audit, it remains a challenge to adopt a careful and sensitive communication strategy of results, which cannot be effectively done without cooperation and participation within the organisations.

The conference was jointly organised by Czech Liaison Office For Research, Development and Innovation (CZELO), Lithuanian Research Development and Innovation Liaison Office (LINO), Polish Science Contact Agency (PolSCA), and Slovak Liaison Office for Research and Development (SLORD). The objective of this event was to give an overview of the latest EU gender policy developments. Recent developments and illustrative cases from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia were presented.

You can check the event agenda and the record of the webinar here.