Women Entrepreneurship and Leadership

The implementing approach of the EIT Gender Equality Policy is through the introduction of a Gender Equality Plan (GEP), which sets out a roadmap with targeted measures and actions that aim to promote gender equality and strengthened gender mainstreaming with a transversal approach. These commitments aim at eliminating gender inequality and will gradually be broadened to include intersecting socio-economic inequalities, including those based on ethnicity or disability.
28 The GEP
approach and requirements derive from the legal basis of Horizon Europe, which establishes gender
equality as a cross-cutting priority. The approach is linked to the European Commission’s European
Strategy for Gender Equality 2020-2025 and the Council of the European Union in its conclusions29 on
the New European Research Area (ERA) in December 2020 also calling on the Commission and Member
States to adopt a renewed focus on gender equality and mainstreaming, including through GEPs and
the integration of the gender dimension into R&I. A GEP is a set of commitments and actions that aim
to promote gender equality in an organisation through institutional and cultural change. To comply with
the Horizon Europe GEP eligibility criterion, a GEP must meet four mandatory process-related
requirements

Why it's a good practice: Important Women's entrepreneurship in the EU data and reflexions

Read the full analysis: https://eit.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2023-06/gender_equality_policy_eit_december_2022.pdf