RRI Tools

The project is concerned with implementing changes in the working environment of academic researchers, to encourage female researchers to stay and make a career in the academy and to create organizational environments where their competence is valued and fostered. In particular, the project addresses the working environment of researchers in the lower levels of their careers, to make it possible for them to advance to the ranks of highest scientific expertise. 

The different partner institutions will take actions on some core issues, which have seldom been directly addressed in previous research or implementation, in particular on the level of the daily environment of researchers: formal and informal decision making processes, meeting cultures, PhD supervision, perceptions of excellence in hiring processes and in the work environment, and resistance to equality measures. 

FESTA will come out with a variety of measures which research environments in different European contexts can use in addressing core issues in their gender equality work. These will be formulated as toolkits and manuals and disseminated both nationally and on the European level in workshops, conferences and through the different networks of the FESTA partners, in addition to web and paper publishing

Report on gendered decision making and communications in organisations
http://www.festa-europa.eu/sites/festa-europa.eu/files/4.1.1.%20Gendering%20Decision%20Making%20and%20Communications%20Processes.pdf 

Report: Improving meeting culture - in a gender context
http://www.festa-europa.eu/sites/festa-europa.eu/files/6.1.1.%20Report%20Meeting%20Structures.pdf 

Tollkit: Towards raising organizational awareness
http://www.festa-europa.eu/sites/festa-europa.eu/files/3.2.1.%20Towards%20raising%20organizsational%20awareness%20-%20toolkit.pdf 

Handbook: Gender issues in recruitment, Appointment and Promotion Processes
http://www.festa-europa.eu/sites/festa-europa.eu/files/5.1.2.%20Gender%20Issues%20in%20Recruitment,%20Appointment%20and.pdf