joerg's picturejoerg
Tue, 03/29/2022 - 17:30

On the 14th and 21st of March 2022, the CASPER project has held its final online conference on the feasibility of establishing a European certification system for gender equality in Research and Innovation.

The two day final conference opened with a contribution by Anne Pépin, Senior...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 02/14/2022 - 21:58

Final conference

The CASPER project has examined the feasibility of establishing a European award/certification system for gender equality for Research Performing Organizations. Based upon an extensive assessment of available certification schemes and needs across Europe and beyond, we...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 10:16

The CASPER project has developed three alternative Gender Equality Certification/Award Schemes (GECAS) to be managed and supported by the European Commission, plus a fourth scenario where the EC would not take directly action, incentivising instead EU member states to set up their own gender...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 10:05

The CASPER project has developed three alternative Gender Equality Certification/Award Schemes (GECAS) to be managed and supported by the European Commission, plus a fourth scenario where the EC would not take directly action, incentivising instead EU member states to set up their own gender...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 09:33

The CASPER project has developed three alternative Gender Equality Certification/Award Schemes (GECAS) to be managed and supported by the European Commission, plus a fourth scenario where the EC would not take directly action, incentivising instead EU member states to set up their own gender...

ctzanakou's picturectzanakou
Mon, 04/12/2021 - 09:52

By Charikleia Tzanakou, Kate Clayton-Hathway and Anne-Laure Humbert

In the past two decades, several Certification and Award schemes (CAs) on gender equality and diversity have emerged in the European research landscape and also more generally. Existing CAs have provided an...

Maria Sangiuliano's pictureMaria Sangiuliano
Tue, 10/27/2020 - 09:46

The CASPER team proudly presents the “State of the Art Analysis: mapping the awarding certification landscape in Higher Education and Research” (D3.3). This report is the outcome of the research effort of a network of more than 30 international researchers. Such effort was...

joerg's picturejoerg
Tue, 09/29/2020 - 16:51

The CASPER project will examine the feasibility of establishing a European award/certification system for gender equality for Research Performing Organizations. The starting points for our conceptual approach towards a European award/certification system include a 1)...

Agostina_Allori's pictureAgostina_Allori
Mon, 06/29/2020 - 12:56

A worth noting initiative for the CASPER Project is the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
DORA was developed during the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. But today, it is a global initiative that covers all scholarly...

Maria Sangiuliano's pictureMaria Sangiuliano
Wed, 06/03/2020 - 08:44

The CASPER team is proud of announcing the completion of its first output, “D3.1 Policy Framing Report”, an outcome of the initial efforts in the project’s life cycle dedicated to “Mapping the landscape in terms of initiatives aiming at awarding and certifying gender equality in research” (WP1...

Agostina_Allori's pictureAgostina_Allori
Mon, 05/11/2020 - 14:02

In this entry, we present potential improvements to the Open Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment Guidelines (OTM-R) proposed by the GEARING-Roles project* (https://gearingroles.eu/). OTM-R is an instrument used in the self-assessment of higher...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 07:39

Building Consensus towards European Gender Equality Certification

The CASPER project will examine the feasibility of establishing a European award/certification system for gender equality for Research Performing...

joerg's picturejoerg
Mon, 02/24/2020 - 04:21

The kick-off meeting for the CASPER project was held on the 9-10 th of January in Strasbourg, hosted by the European Science Foundation.

Very productive discussions between all partners showed not only the challenges of a very...