JIVE - Creating Change for Women & Girls in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology

JIVE Transnational Work

The work of JIVE has been extended across Europe, with a number of partners. JIVE has embraced tansnationality in order to maximise the impact of the work and ensure that good practice is mainstreamed.

JIVE worked within has two Transnational Co-operation Agreements:

Gender@Work
Science, Engineering and Technology sectors are highly segregated within Latvia, Tenerife and Great Britain and the activities of this Agreement operate within a context that also enables a comparison between west and east Europe. Gender@Work will address problems of the under-representation of women and the causes of the gender pay gap, recognising the need for cultural change and promotion of equality.

The TCA will carry out a range of activities to identify existing conditions in the labour market of the countries involved and address issues that are found within the supply and demand cycle. Innovative and practical solutions will be shared and activities will focus on women entrepreneurs, gender awareness raising for girls, students, teachers and careers professionals within education, with employers and industry underpinned by research and interventions to influence policy and policymakers. Partners:

Latvia
‘Reducing Causes of Professional Segregation’ project (ProfEqual), led by the Society Integration Foundation, Riga. This large national project seeks to overcome occupational segregation with 5 target groups: young women (15-18); teachers; employers (machine building, IT, electrical engineering); and the general public. They applied for a European Enterprise Award for their Support Model for Women Entrepreneurs. They also held a national poster competition for school students to design posters, aimed at raising awareness of gender stereotyping. Over 200 posters were produced, see a selection.

Tenerife
Futur@ led by the Department of Youth, Education and Women, Cabildo Insular de Tenerife. The national project is looking at means to encourage girls and women into employment in the IT sector with activities for awareness raising and measures with girls in education, teachers, parents and careers advisers; analysis of training needs for sector; survey work with trade unions on existing practice; work placements; and building a Canarian network of Science and Technology women.
View an exhibition by our Tenerife Partners. This informative touring exhibition on women and science was designed for children and young people, and was displayed at schools, youth centres, women's associations, youth clubs and cultural centres throughout the 31 municipalities of the island of Tenerife.
Equality by Degree
There exists an under-representation of women in science and technology within Universities and Research Centres in each of the partner countries, especially within scientific development (research), decision making (professorships) and policy shaping. The partners will share knowledge, methodologies and audit tools for reviewing organisational culture in Higher Education and industry; analyse and propose solutions to eliminate horizontal segregation within Higher Education, to raise awareness and empower women scientists; survey career management and analyse career paths and share expertise and models of networking and mentoring to support women in academia. Partners:

Belgium
Equality Guide led by VLIR – Centre for Gender Diversity, University of Leuven. The Equality Guide will be a set of 5 case studies on gender mainstreaming within the Flemish University Network (Brussels, Leuven, Ghent, Limbourg, Antwerp) based on organisational culture, career management, mentoring and scientific communication within academia.

Netherlands
Priority for Participation of Women in Science led by the Centre for Gender and Diversity, University of Maastricht. The national project aims to raise the awareness of policymakers that gender is as much a social regulating principle as ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, age and sexuality.

Spain
Profesion@l: Equalibirio de genero en el espacio europeo led by the University of Valencia. The project aims to adopt a ‘whole career path’ approach to eliminate horizontal segregation from the point where secondary education interacts with higher education and where HE interacts with employment. Gender diversity in professional profiles will be explored.