💜🤝On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are pleased to amplify the work of our sister project SEE-ERA. Together, across projects, we continue working to strengthen visibility, leadership, and structural transformation in European research.

🔬 On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we recognise women colleagues — in all their diversity — and the inner girls who believed in their potential and became role models for others. Inclusive science is better science. 🌍 #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #includeGEPs

🔬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝟏𝟏 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 🌍 💜 On the occasion of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are proud to highlight initiatives within the SEE-ERA community that advance institutional change and support women in research.

🌍 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 & 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞! 🌐 𝑺𝑬𝑬-𝑬𝑹𝑨 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔! 🆕The SEE-ERA project brochure is now available in our partner languages, supporting wider outreach and accessibility across South-East Europe.

✨SEE-ERA Training for Change “Beyond the Buzzword: Making Intersectionality Work” |👤 Meet our Trainer We are pleased to introduce the trainer of SEE-ERA’s first online training session, “Beyond the Buzzword: Making Intersectionality Work” 🎓 Victoria Showunmi 🎓 🔽

📍⚙️ SEE-ERA “𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲” | 1st Online Training | REGISTER TODAY! 🌍 𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒛𝒛𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅: 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌 📅 25 February 2026 🕐 12:00–14:30 CET 🌐 Online 📝 Registration deadline: 23 February 2026

📘 SEE-ERA recognised in EU Baseline Report on the Istanbul Convention The European Union has published a Baseline Report on measures implementing the Istanbul Convention, mapping EU-level actions addressing gender-based violence against women.🔽

📌 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 | 𝗦𝗘𝗘-𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 Join us for an online training session on 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔, focusing on how to meaningfully integrate gender, inclusion, and intersectionality into GEP design and implementation.

📌 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 Join us for a training session on 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒔 🗓 25 February 2026 - 12:00–14:30 CET💻 Online 🎓 Trainer 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘂𝗻𝗺𝗶, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Gender, Race and Identity - University College London | INCLUDE project partner

🌟🪐𝑨𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆, 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆! ⭐ Together, we continue to #SEETheChange ⭐

𝗦𝗘𝗘-𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. On November 21 SEE-ERA convened the 3rd online meeting with our sister projects 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗗𝗘 @includeprojecteu.bsky.social 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘 @inspireproject.bsky.social Inspirequality, 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗘 @gendersafe-eu.bsky.social &𝗚𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗖

𝗦𝗘𝗘-𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁! This month has been especially busy for the SEE-ERA mentoring team Charoula Tzanakou ctzanakou.bsky.social - Oxford Brookes University and Evanthia Schmidt - Aarhus Universitet🔽

📣 𝗥&𝗜 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿-𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻. ✊ Gender-based violence has no place in research and innovation. Creating safe, inclusive, and respectful environments is not only a societal challenge - 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. 🔽

𝐒𝐄𝐄-𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 ⏳𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭! Registration for our Inaugural Community of Practice Workshop is open until 19 November, 17:00 CET! 👉 Secure your spot - register before the deadline TODAY: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

✨ 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐄𝐄-𝐄𝐑𝐀 “𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞” 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 - “𝐅𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞: 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡” Held on 12 November & delivered by Prof. Charoula Tzanakou @ctzanakou.bsky.social scientif co-coordinator for the SEE-ERA project from Oxford Brookes University 🔽

Kicking off the week at the online Gender Summit! We're back in the virtual exhibition, engaging with policymakers, researchers & practitioners. This year also launches a new India-focused platform. Join plenaries, discussions & visit our booth! 👉 gender-summit.com

🌍 The SEE-ERA Community of Practice is designed to bring together changemakers across South-East Europe for knowledge exchange, mutual learning and inclusive innovation. 🗓️ Don’t miss our inaugural Workshop on 20 November 2025 | 12:30–14:00 CET (Online)

📢 Ready to #SEETheChange? 🌍 Workshop Alert! ❓Are you based in South-East Europe? ❓Do you work on transforming your organisation to become more gender equal and inclusive? ❓Would you like to connect with other changemakers? ✨If yes, this is for YOU! 🙌 🔽

🌏 𝐒𝐄𝐄-𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐚! SEE-ERA continues its mentoring and monitoring visits with another project partner University of Tirana. 📅 11–12 September 2025 📍 University of Tirana | Faculty of Economics

💡 𝐒𝐄𝐄-𝐄𝐑𝐀 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲! On 3 October 2025, the project carried out its onsite mentoring and monitoring visit at Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation – HFRI in Athens.

⚙️As part of SEE-ERA’s mission to foster inclusive and sustainable Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) across South-East Europe, the project has launched a series of internal mentoring visits with each partner organisation.

🔬 We are glad to share that our sister project STREAM IT is hosting an important policy dialogue on The State of Gender Equality in STE(A)M in Europe! 📅 8 October 2025 ⏰ 11:00–12:30 CET 💻 Online | Organised by Babes-Bolyai University & RAPIV BULGARIA🔽

🤝 Today, SEE-ERA joined forces with sister projects INCLUDE Project – Intersectional GEPs in Biomedicine @includeprojecteu.bsky.social and GenderSAFE @gendersafe-eu.bsky.social for the 2️⃣nd Sister Projects Online Meeting! During this very interesting meeting we🔽

🌍 We’re glad to support and share news from our sister project GILL! Don’t miss the upcoming online training session: “From Plan to Practice: Communicating and Disseminating Results in the GILL Project” Organised by ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) and ViLabs.

✨ Farewell, Zagreb! 🇭🇷 Our 2️⃣nd in-person SEE-ERA Consortium Meeting has come to a close and what a pleasure it was to meet face-to-face once again! 💬🤝

🇭🇷✨ Zagreb, here we are! We’re starting strong with the first SEE-ERA 'Training for Change' national session in Croatia “Building Institutional Capacities for Inclusive Gender Equality Plans in Croatia”

✨ Only one day left for SEE-ERA’s first 'Training for Change' in Croatia — a hands-on workshop designed to strengthen institutional capacities for inclusive Gender Equality Plans in higher education and research. 🔽

🌍 In just a few days, SEE-ERA will hold its first Training for Change in Croatia. The training “Building Institutional Capacities for Inclusive Gender Equality Plans in Croatia” brings together experts and practitioners to strengthen inclusive Gender Equality Plans in higher education and research.

🚀 Next week, SEE-ERA launches its very first “Training for Change” in Croatia! The workshop “Building Institutional Capacities for Inclusive Gender Equality Plans in Croatia” will take place on 18 September 2025 at the University of Zagreb – FER 🔽

🚨 Dobre vijesti ‼️ – produljenje roka! Jeste li se već prijavili? Rok za prijavu na prvi nacionalni program „Trening za promjene“ SEE-ERA-e u Hrvatskoj 🇭🇷 produžen je do nedjelje, 14. rujna.

🚨 Good news‼️ - Registration Deadline extended! Have you registered yet? 🎯 Building Institutional Capacities for Inclusive Gender Equality Plans in Croatia 📅 18 September 2025 | 🕘 09:30–14:30 (local time) 📍 University of Zagreb – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)

🚨 SEE-ERA kicks off its "Training for Change" programme! ✨SEE-ERA Training for Change is more than just a training – it’s a needs-based programme designed to strengthen institutional capacities & advance gender equality in R&I. We’re thrilled to launch our first national training in Croatia🔽

✨ Last but not least in our Meet The SEE_ERA Partners series: ViLabs. Based in Thessaloniki, Greece, ViLabs has longstanding experience in project coordination, as well as in the dissemination and exploitation of project results.

🪐 We’re excited to share that members of SEE-ERA’s coordination team - Kyriaki Karydou, Charikleia Tzanakou, & Evanthia Schmidt - along with WP2 leader Anamari Nakic, presented parts of SEE-ERA’s work at the 18th Equality, Diversity and Inclusion International Conference, held in Athens on 7–8.07🔽

📢 Deadline Extended! Take the SEE-ERA Survey by 20 July and Help Shape Gender Equality Training in Southeast Europe - Join the SEE-ERA Community of Practice! 📢 📝 Take the survey now 👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

🏳️‍🌈How can we transform science through diversity? 👇

Our partner ELIAMEP – The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy held the 2nd internal meeting of their Community of Practice, bringing together colleagues in a hybrid format (at ELIAMEP’s premises & online). The focus? 🔽

🎯Help Shape Gender Equality Training in Southeast Europe – Join the SEE-ERA Community of Practice! Take our survey!Through the delivery of a comprehensive training programme & the establishment of a Community of Practice in Southeast Europe, SEE-ERA projects seeks to 🔽

🌎 SEE-ERA is proud to participate in the Final Conference of the SUPPORTER PROJECT: “Advancing Gender+ Equality in Widening Higher Education Institutions” taking place on 4–5 June 2025 at Charles University in Prague.

Starting this week’s #meettheSEE-ERAteam series🤝 with the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Ελληνικό Ίδρυμα Έρευνας & Καινοτομίας - ΕΛΙΔΕΚ 🔽

🤝 Collaboration in Action 🤝 SEE-ERA is proud to be part of a vibrant community of Horizon Europe projects, including INCLUDE Project – Intersectional GEPs in Biomedicine, Inspirequality, GenderSAFE, Project Stream It and GEPINC 🔽

👥🤝 Continuing our “Meet the SEE-ERA Consortium” series… We’re happy to introduce our next partner: University of Tirana (UT). 🏛 The University of Tirana (UT) is the largest public university in Albania, promoting Higher Education and research excellence since 1957.

🎓 Next up in our #MeetTheSEEERATeam series is the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb (UNIZG-FER). 🧵🔽

So excited to be coordinating this amazing project with great colleagues !

This week’s #meettheSEEERAteam 🤝 is taking us to Romania and University of Bucharest 🏛 The University of Bucharest (UB) is a prestigious European university founded in 1864, nowadays part of the CIVIS EU Alliance, a consortium of 11 universities. 🧵

Keeping up with #MeettheSEEERAteam 🤝 we’re happy to introduce our next partner 👇 The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) 🧵

This week’s "meettheSEE-ERAteam series" 🤝 is taking us to Denmark and Aarhus University 🏛 Aarhus University (AU) is a leading European research university with education and research activities in all scientific and scholarly disciplines.

Next up in our #MeetTheSEE-ERAteam series: University of Crete (UoC), located on the Greek island of Crete. UoC is a research-oriented institution with many internal policies that promote equality and inclusivity, prohibit discrimination based on gender, race, nationality, and other factors.

📢 Our 1st SEE-ERA Newsletter is out! 🎉 Get to know the project, meet the team, and catch a glimpse of our inspiring in-person meeting in Athens! 📩 Read it here 👉 lnkd.in/d23uyvpn ...and don't forget to subscribe! 🙏 #seeeraprojecteu #seethechange #HorizonEurope #genderequality #NewsletterLaunch

Continuing our “Meet the SEE-ERA Consortium” series… We’re happy to introduce our second partner: 🤝 The Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)