Gender and diversity action plan

The aim of this plan is to improve gender balance and diversity in the project. This will be done through the following activities:
• promoting understanding among researchers and other project personnel on the “gender and science” issue and make them more sensitive towards the gender dimension of/in science;
• including the gender dimension throughout the research project;
• indicating how to design a more gender sensitive project;
• helping to eliminate gender bias in the research project;
• showing why it is important to create a gender-balanced research team;
• making research results more relevant for society.
• To some extent also:
• Enabling researchers to write more competitive proposals in future;

The tasks to be conducted are:
• Availability of resources
• Building awareness within the consortium
• Appointment of personnel
• Mentor network
• Monitoring gender and diversity actions