European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education

Submission deadline

Saturday, 15 February 2020
Deadline extended to 3 March 2020

Notification of acceptance

April 2020

Conference dates

16-18 September 2020

Conference venue

Technical School of Industrial Engineering
Madrid, Spain

Link for submission

Submit here

Further information

Conference website

The European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education is currently accepting submissions. The conference aims to promote gender-sensitive culture in academic and R&I systems in light of the global challenges ahead of us.

High-quality submissions on the following topics are welcome:

• Gender approaches in fostering scientific-technical vocations, especially in STEM fields
• Integration of the gender dimension in university teaching (undergraduate, postgraduate and pre-doctoral training)
• Policies fostering the incorporation of the gender dimension into the content of research, knowledge transfer and innovation
• Policies fostering structural change for gender equality in the research, technology and innovation system
• Gender Equality Plans and strategies in research, technology and innovation institutions

With two cross-cutting dimensions for all the conference areas:

• Gender and Intersectionality
• Application to Polytechnic Universities, including special focus on STEM fields and Women in STEM, as well as on STEM-SSH interdisciplinarity.