{"id":104606,"date":"2025-08-11T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etag2025.etag.ee\/research-culture\/gender-mainstreaming-in-research\/participation-in-projects\/gearing-roles\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:18:24","slug":"gearing-roles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/etag.ee\/en\/research-culture\/gender-mainstreaming-in-research\/participation-in-projects\/gearing-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"GEARING-Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Estonian Research Council together with nine partners fro<\/strong>m seven European countries participated between January 1st 2019 \u2013 December 31st 2022 in<\/strong> Coordination and Support Action project GEARING-Roles. The main goal of the project was to launch gender equality plans (GEPs)  at six partnering institutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender equality plan gives ground for actions aiming at promoting and developing gender equality within partnering institutions as well as impacts its stakeholders\u2019 community. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The methodology used troughout the\u00a0GEARING-Roles project was based on the\u00a0GEAR tool<\/a>\u00a0(Gender Equality in Academia and Research<\/em>) previously developed by\u00a0European Institute for Gender Equality<\/a>\u00a0(EIGE). According to the GEAR methodology, the plan is not a static document consisting of several objectives, but is a system of actions that obliges performing activities in a gradual manner involving continuous evaluation of previous steps and present context (its principles are define, plan, act and check!). As there was no similar experience and while also considering the novelty of creating gender equality plans in Estonian context, participation in this project supported by the co-operation between project-partners offered a great opportunity to maximize the project outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With its participation in this project, Estonian Research Council also hoped to encourage Estonian research institutions and research policy makers to pay more attention to gender equality issues and further draw up similar plans. Estonian Research Council received positive feedback to its participation and possible collaboration consents from four public universities and one private research organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was based on assumption that gender inequality results from attitudes, beliefs and previously established practices that have created stereotypical roles in organisations (incl. research institutions) for both genders. Therefore, the main goal of the project was to achieve structural change in the partnering GEP implementing organisations (in their internal policies, organisational culture).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that, it was necessary to learn to better notice the gender inequality and discrimination, understand and value the benefits gender equality brings, encourage women choosing researcher career and support their career advancements, increase the proportion of women in decision making and giving greater consideration to women\u2019s needs in decisions, but also include gender aspects in curricula as well as in research methodologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read and see more about\u00a0GEARING-Roles annual conference<\/a>\u00a0that was organized by Estonian Research Council in Tartu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also the project\u2019s blog<\/a>, and the posts published by the Estonian Research Council:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n