On 8th of November 2010 in Vilnius, 11 experts from 11 Member States had their first meeting on gender-based violence. The participants discussed EIGE’s role in the light of EU Strategy on Equality between Women and Men (2010-2015) and how EIGE could compliment the Commission's work and support the Member States in their fight against violence against women. The need...
On the 5th of November, 2010, the European Institute for Gender Equality and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands hosted the presentation "Male development and gender issues" by Mr Lauk Woltring, the founder of platform Boys in Balance. The presentation was followed by a discussion about the issues of men’s involvement in gender issues and male perspectives in...
On 29 October 2010, the European Institute for Gender Equality will organise a joint awareness raising panel discussion with the Lithuanian Centre of Human Rights, in the context of the 4 th human rights film festival "Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films" (Vilnius, 21-30 October 2010). Following the French film " La Domination Masculine" (Male dominance) projected in Pasaka cinema, the discussion...
The Management Board with Ms Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa (Germany) as Chair met for the Institute's 9 th Management Board in Vilnius. The agenda includded EIGE's upcoming Work Programme, its budget as well as several important issues related to the Institute's initiatives and programmes. left to right: Ms. Barbara Wurster (EIGE), Ms. Virginija Langbakk (EIGE), Ms. Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa (Germany), Ms...
The Institute organised an experts’ meeting on developing methodologies on existing approaches to Gender Mainstreaming (GM) and for the assessment of the effectiveness of GM methods and tools. The meeting took place in Vilnius on 21 September 2010 and involved 16 experts with work experience on GM methods and tools in the EU. The Institute through these exchanges took advice...
The purpose of the Experts' preparatory meeting on the EU Gender Equality Index (EU GEI) is to: hold a brainstorming session and to discuss the scope and functions of the Working Group (WG) on the EU GEI, discuss existing and future data sources and identify gaps in statistics, and hold a discussion on existing national indexes and their components ...
On the occasion of its Grand Opening events, EIGE held a Management Board meeting for the first time in its new format. The new group is made-up of 19 members chosen from a rotating Member State arrangement guaranteeing membership for all countries over a three year period plus a member from the European Commission. Participants met in Vilnius between and...
EIGE is currently preparing the necessary groundwork for the collection of existing data and information on Gender issues in line with its 2010 Annual Work Programme. As a first step towards completing these tasks, EIGE organised a preparatory meeting on 17 May 2010, in Vilnius, with 6 active Beijing Indicators experts from around Europe. The meeting culminated in an in-depth...