Prof. Ewa Łojkowska from University of Gdansk will be heading a new Horizon 2020 project entitled Modifying Institutions by Developing the Gender Equality Plans (MINDtheGEPs).
Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) is going to be the lider of this international consortium. Apart from University of Gdansk, the following institutions shall participate in realisation of this project: National Research Council (Italy), Institute of Technology Tralee (Ireland), Jagiellonian University (Poland), School of Electrical Engineering-University of Belgrade (Serbia), Fundacion para la promocion de la Innovacion, Investigacion Y Desarrollo Tecnologico en la Industria de la Automocion de Galicia (Spain), Knowledge and Innovation (Italy), Uppsala University (Sweden) and Elsevier (The Netherlands).
Founding for this initiative reached 3 mln euro.
The main aim of this project is to create appropriate plans for institutions that would lead to promotion of gender equality among men and women in science and innovations.