GISELA is putting in place an Equal Opportunities Policy for the lifetime of the Project, in close collaboration with the Partner Institutions. The fact that GISELA is not an Institution but a Consortium of Partners of a 2-year lifetime delimitates the reach of the Gender policy to:

• Promoting and supporting equal opportunities in all Partner Institutions in their GISELA activities, on the basis of a Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP);
• Ensuring a fair treatment of minorities in staff recruitment.

Gender distribution

In the EELA-2 project,  the gender distribution was the following:

 

 

Using information from the GISELA Timesheet tool, one obtains the current overall figures: 122 registered persons, of which 33 females (27%). It appears that the GISELA gender distribution is quite the same as it was in EELA-2.

 

	# Females	Total	% Females
European Partners	10	28	36
Latin America Partners	23	94	24
Total	33	122	27

 

Gender agreement

The Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP), coordinated by the Project Management, includes three lines of actions:

• Get a Statement of Intent (SoI) of all Partners not already submitted to a local Equal Opportunity Programme (EOP), on an GISELA Gender Agreement (GENDAG) ensuring equality of treatment of persons regardless, inter alia, of sex, ethnic origin, physical handicap, sexual orientation or religion in all aspects of their professional environment;
• Create a Web site page promoting both the GEAP and GENDAG, and highlighting efforts to improve the gender balance;
• Guaranty equal opportunity in recruitments by inserting both on the Web site recruitment page and each vacancy notice the statement: “In line with our policy of Equal Opportunities, we encourage both men and women with relevant qualifications to apply”.

The Project Management is following the monitoring of the Equal Opportunity evolution. In case of clearly established unfair treatment of minorities, direct interaction will occur with the corresponding Partner.

Institutions in GISELA than have a Gender Action Plan (GAP) or have already signed the Statement of Intent (SoI) are showed in the table below:

 

Institution	Country
CEFET Centro Federal de Educaçao Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca	Brasil
CIDETYS Centro Internacional de Desarrollo Tecnológico y Software Libre	Panama
CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas	Spain
CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France
CUBAENERGIA Cuba Energía	Cuba
HLP HLP DEVELOPPEMENT	France
INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare	Italy
InnovaRed Red Nacional de Investigación y Educación de Argentina	Argentina
RAAP Red Académica Peruana	Peru
Renata Red Nacional Académica de Tecnología Avanzada	Colombia
UFCG Universidade Federal de Campina Grande	Brasil
UFRJ Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro	Brasil
ULA Universidad de Los Andes	Venezuela
UM Universidade de Minho	Portugal
UNIANDES Universidad de Los Andes	Colombia
UPorto Universidade Do Porto	Portugal
UTPL Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja	Ecuador

 

 

Edited by Vanessa Hamar on 18/07/2011