The workshop aims to reopen debate on the area of family policies and gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe, a research field which has seen little exploration to date from the comparative perspective. The workshop will be followed by the publication of the papers.

genSET Partner, The Science Shop Vienna, is organising web conferences (webinars) on gender-fair recruitment and retention with renowned experts, taking place in January and February 2012. The target group of the events are research institutions in Europe. Targeted participants are persons responsible for implementing gender equality policies.

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main invites for the conference Transforming Gender Orders. Intersections of Care, Family and Migration. This conference takes up the controversies about the transformation of gender relations in the course of globalization processes and strives for a discussion from new perspectives. The conference is organized in four panels covering three main areas: care, family, and migration. These provide the background against which we pose the question of whether gender relations and orders are shifting, how they are shifting and in what direction.

A team of researchers sponsored by the Visegrad fund have launched a project to explore the evolution of day care services for children aged 0-6 in the Visegrad countries. They invite submissions of papers for the workshop on the impact of child care provision on female employment or fertility or income redistribution.

Postgraduate School of Psychology-ASAG invites for Summer School in Applied Psycho-social Research in Contexts of Marginalization and Cultural Diversity. The School is designed as an opportunity for interaction between academia and civil society organizations, with the possibility to implement projects based on actual field research. The 2011 Edition is focused on the multi-method investigation of the single mothers phenomenon in Africa, thematizing its causes and psychosocial implications and envisaging the realization and production of one or more documentaries.
Eligibility: 5-year degree (old system) or a Master of Arts in Psychology, Social Sciences and alike.

The first European Gender Summit provides a forum for stakeholders from
research, industry and policy to engage in an open dialogue to jointly establish a policy agenda for promoting new research directions and new ways for transferring ideas to markets that incorporate gender knowledge. During the Summit, participants will together produce a "Policy Manifesto for Integrated Action on the Gender Dimension in Science." This will represent the first-ever effort to establish collective agreement on policy development on gender in science for the enhancement of competitiveness and excellence of scientific systems across Europe.

European Commission invites for international symposium Zero Tolerance on Domestic Violence: Towards a Comprehensive EU-Wide Strategy. This timely Symposium renews the debate on how to work towards an EU-wide strategy on domestic violence. It will provide a platform for the discussion of a better European regulatory framework aimed at strengthening the 3 P's – prevention, protection and prosecution.

Katedra historie Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého Olomouc zve na interdisciplinární konferenci "Konstrukce mužské identity v minulosti a v současnosti". Přihlášky pasivních účastníků/ic jsou přijímány na emailové adrese jitka.masatova@upol.cz.

Polish feminist organizations eFKa invites for the workshop Jump Over the Wall which aim si to learn the most recent history of Europe from the perspective of biographies. Its aim also is to present the history from the perspective of women, who are usually seen as passive participants and not as main actors of historical transformations.

The workshop Gender Stereotypes and Gendered Attitudes in the Assessment of Women’s Work is organized as part of the awareness and capacity building activities of the FP7 SiS funded project, genSET (goal: to support European science institutions in promoting gender equality and taking action on the gender dimension in science in order to improve: science knowledge making; human capital development; institutional processes and practices; and compliance with regulation). The workshop is an opportunity for institutions and decision makers to be part of a knowledge transfer and a dialogue with gender experts and with other institutions in the European science system leading towards greater equality in how women and men are valued in science.