Description

ACT – Promoting Communities of Practice to advance knowledge, collaborative learning and institutional change on gender equality in the European Research Area

ACT will advance gender equality in the European Research Area by increasing gender expertise and operational effectiveness of Communities of Practice (CoPs) engaged in promoting institutional change, and in particular implementation of gender equality plans (GEPs), within and across research performing organisations (RPOs) and research funding organisations (RFOs). ACT will contribute to this overall goal by:

• Consolidating and strengthening existing infrastructure for knowledge sharing and mutual learning in the field of institutional change and gender equality across Europe
• Develop tailor-made mechanisms for new learning and practice development through CoPs operating within multi-stakeholder, multi-agenda organisational academic environments
• Establish the first European Network of Communities of Practice by supporting 7 new and/or consolidating CoPs

Notus leads workpackage 1 Strategic analysis: Domain, Community, Methodology which will produce the conceptual framework amongst other outputs