INSPIRE

Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: Creating Knowledge & Engaging in Collaborative Action

Project duration: 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2026

Project lead: Dr. Andrea Löther, Dr. Lena Weber, Dr. Anke Lipinsky

Project team: Mazlum Karataş Ph.D.

Funded by: Horizon Europe

Funding number: 10105853

Project description:

The European project INSPIRE aims to develop a sustainable center that develops innovative, inclusive and research-based gender equality policies and tools for the academic world. It will bring together high-level researchers, gender equality experts and practioners to pool their ideas and resources to design new ways of gender equality policy.

The subproject of INSPIRE, located at CEWS, aims to conduct methodological research in the field of monitoring gender equality plans. It will be examined whether a web survey, as a reactive method of data collection, is better suited for the monitoring of gender equality plans, or the non-reactive method of web scraping. In addition, a concept for monitoring gender equality plans will be developed.

The main EU project page for all activities can be found at: www.inspirequality.eu/knowledge

Activities:

November 2024

Co-creation workshop at GESIS with around 20 participants
Open exchange on the future of gender equality monitoring in the EU, which procedures should be considered and on how to better coordinate the processes

September 2024

First analysis of the results of the survey and web scraping data
Presentation of the results at the project meeting in Vienna

July 2024

The invitations to the Gender Equality Plan Monitoring Survey have been sent to 33 countries!
The survey has been translated into five languages.
While we're waiting for responses to the survey, the web scraping is being carried out.

November 2023 - May 2024

Implementation of a pilot study
In particular, the web scraping process and the text analysis were tested.
Developed the questionnaire for the survey
Sample: We tested both methods with 82 selected institutions in four countries, Germany, Greece, Estonia and Ireland.
To read: All findings of the pilot study are summarized in the methodological concept (D3.1).

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:

The deliverable with results from our survey and web crawling was published in December 2024:

Löther, Andrea, Karataş, Mazlum, & Weber, Lena (2024). D3.3 Report on GEP Monitoring Survey + Webcrawl Result. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14264597

The codes that were used for the web scraping and the information retrieval were published in two GitHub repositories under the username InspireQualityeu.

INSPIRE’s profile on GitHub: InspireQualityeu (INSPIRE) · GitHub
- web scraping repository: GitHub - InspireQualityeu/gep-scraper
- information retrieval repository: GitHub - InspireQualityeu/gep-information-retrieval

Another deliverable, the monitoring indicator framework, has been published:

Löther, Andrea, Karataş, Mazlum, & Weber, Lena (2024). D3.1 GEP Prevalence Monitoring Indicator framework v1. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11516872

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

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