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Based on the experience gathered in the framework of INTEGER the project partners have identified key challenges encountered in the design and implementation of Transformational-Gender Action Plans and have elaborated some guides and templates on how to address these challenges. Navigate on the website by clicking on the Plan-Do-Check-Act steps to get access to the appropriate tools and template.

Science, technology and innovation do not exist in a vacuum, but take place in historical contexts. Similarly, the question of science, technology and innovation in the future needs to be understood as located socially and historically. Accordingly, a historical perspective on gender and STI is needed in order to adequately understand gendered patterns and relations in both the past and the future: who does science, technology and innovation? How are science, technology and innovation organized? And also how is knowledge constructed in science, technology and innovation? These are three key components of the relationship between gender and science and technology, as identified by Hearn and Husu (2001) and Schiebinger (1999). Considering the histories and futures of gender and science alongside different conceptions of gender that shape the policies in this field provides a fruitful framework for analysis.

The purpose of this report by the GenPORT consortium is to summarise the key ‘gender and science’ policy making infrastructures in Europe by reviewing the role of policy actors within the national science policy contexts, the issues that policies at different levels are addressing, and the key mechanisms by which they are doing so.
The overall aim of the report is to communicate the issues of ‘gender and science’ and their policy contexts to future users of genderportal.eu, including policy makers. Thus, the focus of this report is on the gender and science domains and only tangentially broaches the issue of other policy domains that flank the gender and science domains (e.g. the domain of general gender equality or gender equality in national labour markets).

The idea of this Toolkit is to help researchers integrate gender dimension in their ongoing research and teaching (of under- and postgraduate courses), and to apply while conceiving new projects and students’ curricula – especially those in test institutions involved in the GARCIA project (Gendering the Academy and Research: combating Career Instability and Asymetries, garciaproject.eu). This Toolkit should help research and teaching staff in thinking in what way is gender relevant for their research and curricula.

Gender-sensitive research takes into account the differences between men and women in all aspects of the research, from an initial idea, formulating research questions, objectives and methodologies to the outcomes and presentation of results.

Apart from integrating gender into the content, gender-sensitive approach strives to provide equal participation of both women and men in scientific work. Gender-sensitive approach takes into account transgender and transsexual population as well.