ACT – GenTIC

PROMOTING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE ON GENDER EQUALITY IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH ERA

ACT (Communities of PrACTice for Accelerating Gender Equality and Institutional Change in Research and Innovation across Europe) is a Coordination and Support Action project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The initiative seeks to advance gender equality at Research Performing Organizations and Research Funding Organizations across Europe by strengthening the existing infrastructure for knowledge sharing and mutual learning to promote institutional change in this field.

ACT will start up a European network of 7 Communities of Practice (CoPs) in research organizations and will provide them with tailor-made mechanisms for new learning and practice, such as an online Hub for knowledge sharing, an adaptable instrument for monitoring and evaluating gender equality, toolkits and training materials in participatory methods, or thematic videos addressing shared needs.

With a total budget of 3 million €, ACT is coordinated by Gender and ICT.

Start date: 1st of May 2018 – End date: 30th of April 2021

Principal investigator: Jörg Müller (GenTIC, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Consortium:

The ACT Consortium comprises 17 institutions from 10 different European countries and Argentina: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), Portia (UK), NOTUS (Spain), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH (Austria), Advance HE (formerly Equality Challenge Unit) (UK), Loughborough University (UK), Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina); Technische Universität Berlin (Germany), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Science Foundation Ireland (Ireland), Umweltbundesamt (Germany), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton (Germany), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Centre de Regulació Genòmica (Spain), Uniwersytet Jagiellonski (Poland), ZRC SAZU (Slovenia), and Haskoli Islands (Iceland).

More information:

ACT offers an online hub for Communities of Practice (CoPs) building upon the GenPORT portal. GenPORT is a community-based internet portal for sharing resources on gender and science. The ACT Knowledge Sharing Hub comprises the main project website and individual content management systems for each Community of Practice, providing the underlying infrastructure for each CoP to set up their personalized workspace. ACT activities will contribute to consolidating the multistakeholder engagement of the GenPORT portal while centralizing access to resources across individual Communities of Practice.

To know more, visit the portal

Funding body:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788204.

Related projects: GenPORT