The seventh PLSM (Project Learning and Support Meeting), the consortium meeting of the SPEAR project, was held in Kaunas and Vilnius, Lithuania, from December 5-7, 2022. The meeting brought together representatives of partner institutions from Denmark, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden and Croatia. The meeting provided an opportunity to raise awareness of the similarities and differences in the cultures and environments in which the partner institutions operate and to identify possible activitie...

Representatives of the University of Rijeka and members of the Diversity and Inclusivity Team - Daria Glavan Šćulac, Ana Tomaško Obradović, Sandra Nuždić, and Tino Vodanović - visited Tor Vergata University in Rome in September. As part of the YUFE work package dedicated to improving diversity and inclusive policies and practices in the YUFE network and partner universities, the meetings in Rome included the sharing of experiences and good inclusive practices of the gathered representatives from...

On Monday, May 16, 2022, a public forum on gender and gender identity in modern society was held at the Rijeka City Hall. The forum was held on the occasion of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), which is celebrated on May 17. The forum was organised by the Gender Equality Council of the University of Rijeka in cooperation with the Rijeka Association LORI. Participants: Dubravka Jurišić Eržen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka; Jasminka Juretić, University Counse...

The team SPEAR of the University of Rijeka has won the "Fierce Women Award" 2022, which is awarded for the third consecutive year by the portal Voxfeminae.net and the social enterprise Fierce Women to prominent individuals and organisations that have distinguished themselves through creativity, action and achievements in the past year. For a significant contribution to gender equality, justice and social balance in Croatia in the past period, there were over 80 nominations from individuals and organisations from vari...

As gender equality is considered one of the main priorities in EU countries for strengthening the European Research Area (ERA), the Lithuanian Social Research Centre, in cooperation with Vilnius University, organized an international conference titled Gender Equality in CEE Countries: Policies and Practices 2020 - Institutional Changes through the Imple...

This edition of YUFE staff training will address different issues related to gender equality in academia and research such as disparity in access to leadership positions, principles of gender-sensitive academic communication, and implicit biases leading to stereotypical behaviors and consequently resulting in an underrepresentation of women in academia. DATE: 10-11 December 2020, 9.00 – 12.00 am CETTarget audience: non-academics (staff of different profile...