ARACIS participation in the international project
Taking a Reflexive Approach to Gender for Institutional Transformation – TARGET
Project type: project funded by Horizon 2020
Nr. agreement: 741672
Implementation period: 48 months (May 1, 2017 – April 30, 2021) prolonged to December 31 2021
The TARGET project is coordinated by the The Austrian Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut für Höhere Studien, IHS), with ARACIS as a partner.
Partners:
The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) (Cyprus), The Italian Lombardy Foundation for Biomedical Research (Fondazione Regionale per la Ricerca Biomedica -FRRB) (Italy), The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) (Greece), Hassan II University of Casablanca ( Morocco), University of Belgrade (Serbia), The Réseau Méditerranéen des Ecoles d’Ingénieurs et de Management (RMEI) (France), Notus: Applied Social Research (Spain), Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (Italy)
Project objectives:
– contribute to the promotion of gender equality in research and development by supporting a reflective gender equality policy in seven innovative institutions for gender equality in the Mediterranean basin;
– initiate a national discourse on gender equality in research and development;
– to contribute to the international discourse by providing tools and comparative analyzes.
Expected results:
The project initiates institutional change in seven innovative gender equality institutions in the Mediterranean basin, including research organizations, research funding organizations and a network of universities. The TARGET approach goes beyond the formal adoption of a gender equality policy, focusing on an iterative and reflective process towards ensuring equality at the institutional level and strengthening a community of practice to support gender equality within the institution.
Project site: http://www.gendertarget.eu
