The genSET project will develop practical ways in which gender knowledge and gender mainstreaming expertise can be incorporated within European science institutions in order to improve individual and collective capacity for action to increase women’s participation in science. 

The project will be led by the genSET Consortium and co-ordinated by Portia. The project has been approved for funding by the European Commission Research Directorate General under FP7, Science in Society.

genSET will facilitate a sustainable, collaborative dialogue between gender experts and science leaders to agree on practical guidelines for implementing gender action plans within existing institutional mechanisms. Involved in the debate will be 100 European science stakeholder institutions, 15 international gender experts, and eight European strategy decision-makers.  

Together with the genSET Consortium, they will work towards improvements in five key areas where gender bias disadvantages women’s participation in science:

1) assessment of women’s work;
2) recruitment and retention;
3) science knowledge-making;
4) research process;
5) science excellence value system. 

The dialogue will be facilitated by the genSET Consortium through a range of capacity building support activities, including consensus seminars, interactive workshops and dissemination and valorisation events. 

The outcome will be increased capability of European institutions to implement gender equality policy recommendations and a strengthened position on research excellence in the European Science Area.

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