University of Silesia in Katowice

GEPARD project’s assumption is to create conditions for equal opportunities between women and men in the academic environment. This goal will be achieved by developing, within an international consortium, a system of actions understood as an organisational policy leading, on the one hand, to the elimination of gender discrimination in the academic environment (both among employees and students) and, on the other hand, to an increase in the diversity of the academic sphere in order to take into account the gender perspective and data on it in every aspect of the university operations.

The project will be implemented in the international consortium composed of higher education institutions from Poland, Austria, Hungary, Cyprus, Malta and SME closely cooperating with academic entities from Italy. The consortium will be supported by the associated partners.

The main objective of the project is to include and counteract gender-based exclusion by developing by an international consortium a system of activities understood as organizational policy, leading to the elimination of gender discrimination in the academic environment.

Achieving the project’s objectives and results will be possible through:

1. building a network of  cooperation between organizations of various competencies, sectors and experience, operating in various regions of Europe and local environments,
2. strengthening cooperation between project partners,
3. various forms of cooperation building creative cooperation between the partners of the consortium. These will be face-to-face meetings, mutual education, remote work – online and offline as part of ongoing project works (internal consultations, brainstorming…),
4. consultations with the final beneficiaries of the project results,
5. consultations with experts
6. working out the intellectual outputs.