The EQUAPOL project sought to assess the progress and impact of integrating gender into public policy in Europe. The project focused on social policies prioritised by the European Social Policy Agenda, which had also called for the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in all relevant policies....

Throughout the European Union both the proportion and the number of young people undertaking engineering studies are falling, due in part to demographic trends of declining birth rate. Balanced against that, engineers are one of the mainstays of the economy required for wealth creation and to...

This publication will provide a summary of the outcome of the workshop on research communication and gender. This workshop is trying to address how to communicate life sciences research effectively to men and women. The brochure will contain background information based on the presentations...

Speeding up changes in Europe - International Conference on Women in Indus trial Research, Berlin, October 10 - 11, 2003. Europe needs more women in industrial research - and more women studying science and engineering. How can this be achieved? What are the best methods to promote women in...

This report submitted at the request of the Research Council of June 2001, gives an overview of women and science actions implemented at European level since the Council Resolution and of the results achieved. The focus of the overview is on the European Commission's activities to promote gender...