The Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring (GEAM) tool is an online free platform for carrying out survey-based gender equality audits in academic organizations. It was created in the context of the ACT project, a Horizon 2020 funded initiative coordinated by Jörg Müller, and was developed by a team of researchers from Advance HE, GenTIC at UOC and Notus in collaboration with the ACT Consortium partners.

Since its initial development in 2020, the GEAM has been used by more than 50 universities and research centres across Europe, and its questionnaire is available in several languages, including English, Spanish, German, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Lithuanian, Italian, Greek, Czech, Slovenian, or Ukrainian. Recently, the tool has been revised and updated by the INSPIRE project, including a new version that targets not only employees but also higher education students.

The GEAM tool includes a flexible questionnaire framework based upon the Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASSET) and on existing measurement scales in the scientific literature. It comprises a collection of questions that cover most aspects of gender equality in academic organizations, providing high-quality data for designing and implementing gender equality measures and assessing their impact over time. It is implemented using the open-source survey platform LimeSurvey Community Edition. A reporting template will automatically generate a Word (docx) report with descriptive statistics (frequency tables and illustrations).

The online handbook Statistical Analysis for Inclusive Gender Equality. Practical Guidance for Analysing GEAM Data, published on 22 May 2025, provides guidance on the statistical analysis of data collected using the GEAM questionnaire, enabling users to make the most of GEAM data beyond descriptive statistics. It was developed as part of the INSPIRE project and co-authored by GenTIC senior researcher Jörg Müller, Dalia Argudo, a researcher at Notus, and Ewa Krzaklewska and Paulina Sekuła, professors at Jagiellonian University.

Take a look at the introduction video below and visit the INSPIRE GEAM Training Unit and the GEAM website.