EELISA Alliance is rooted on the “shared values of democracy, diversity, inclusion and gender equality as the conditio sine quanon to create a European society based on cooperation and sustainability”.
Areas of intervention following EIGE principles
There are still persistent gender gaps in higher education as well as in research and innovation and in the labour market (‘She figures’). While at bachelor and master levels, women outnumber men as students and graduates, and while there is almost gender balance at the doctoral level, there are large gender differences across fields of study – in the STEM fields, women still represent slightly less than a third of students at bachelor and master levels, and 37% of doctoral candidates. Only 33% of Europe’s researchers are women (all fields), and they remain under-represented at the highest level of academia, with only 26% of full professorship positions held by women (‘She figures’ report).
According to the preliminary figures gathered for the production of EELISA’s Gender Equality Plan, similar imbalances seem to exist at some partner institutions, women still being underrepresented in specific academic and scientific fields as well as at the highest levels of our hierarchies. (More information coming soon).
Gender equality contributes to the integrity and societal responsibility of research, leveraging scientific and technological quality to higher standards, namely through the gender dimension in research and innovation. Indeed, sex and gender analysis are factors that can affect the quality of research results, and can influence research and innovation decisions when setting priorities, designing studies, communicating results. Do you want to know more? Review our workshop ‘Gender Dimension in Research’ (5 October) here.
From left to right: Isabel Salgueiro (EELISA InnoCORE Coordinator), Krisztina László (BME), Inés Sánchez (UPM), Adeline Favier (PSL), Virginia Petre (UPB), Julien Becker (ENPC), Laura Tierling (EELISA Gender Equality ¬ Diversity workgroup) and Magda Luthay (FAU) Two days of activities, three months of preparation work, and over twenty people involved. This is how EELISA commemorated…
A survey run among EELISA researchers and academic staff in September 2022 revealed that many researchers feel parenthood is “a hurdle” for their research career and complain about incompatibility of raising children and keeping up with the demands of a top-level research position. What are the daily-life experiences in this regard? What are the current…
EELISA believes that higher education has a fundamental role in building a more sustainable, fair, and equitable society. For this reason, EELISA aims to promote an accessible and diverse university, where each and every person, regardless of their culture, ethnicity, gender or beliefs, finds their place to study, grow and contribute to the construction of…
As an expression of our Alliance’s commitment to the shared values of democracy, diversity, inclusion and gender equality, one of the main outcomes of the last EELISA Governing Board, held on 21 and 22 April 2022 in Pisa, was the signature of the EELISA Alliance Statement on Gender Equality. This document, drawing on the findings…
EELISA Communities are expanding and this is the chance for students, faculty, researchers, companies, and citizens to join. The ITU-EELISA Community “Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math & Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity (WinSTEAM & DEI)” is looking for partners and collaborators. WHO? People benefiting from, contributing to and working for STEAM; people with…
Today is the International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate women’s achievements but also, to claim the need for a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive world – A world that is free of stereotypes and discrimination. In EELISA we are honored to be named after Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, one of the first women engineers who…