INSPIRE

Activities:

March 2024

• Pilot study:
  • We are describing our methodological approach for the non reactive methods in our next deliverable, coming soon in summertime.
  • We sent an invitation to selected institutions for our survey in the four countries Germany, Estonia, Greece and Ireland!

November/December 2023

• Pilot study: In order to test the web scraping method for the Europe-wide monitoring of gender equality plans, we are conducting a pilot study.
• The sample comprises selected institutions in Germany, Greece, Estonia and Ireland.
• We explore how machine learning algorithms can be used to detect gender equality plans automatically to measure their prevalence.
• Further steps will test how the gender equality plans can be analyzed more profoundly using text analysis methods (characteristics, implementation and impact indicators).

October 5, 2023

• The INSPIRE conference "Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: Creating Knowledge for Systematic and Sustainable Structural Chance" took place in Budapest. It was aimed at experts, practitioners and researchers who are responsible for the development of gender equality plans.

May/June 2023

• We conducted four online focus groups to develop the indicators for the web survey and web scraping. A total of 28 participants from the four European regions were involved.
• We identified four important indicators for a Europe-wide monitoring of gender equality plans: Prevalence, Characteristics, Implementation and Impact.

Materials:

A scoping review of the literature on the evaluation and monitoring of gender equality plans (GEP) at scientific institutions has been completed.

Löther, Andrea/ Karataş, Mazlum/ Weber, Lena (2023): D2.1f Literature Review Data Monitoring. https://zenodo.org/records/10033668