Networks and cities' news

Catch up on the latest updates from cities working together in URBACT Networks. The articles and news that are showcased below are published directly by URBACT’s beneficiaries and do not necessarily reflect the programme’s position.

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    On our way to the action-plan...FEMACT-Cities 2nd Quarterly Report

    Rosalie Lakatos

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  • Clermont Innovation Week 2024 under the banner of gender equality

    The Clermont Innovation Week (CIW) was back from 2 to 11 April 2024. This week of events, coordinated by Clermont Auvergne Metropole, puts the spotlight on science and innovation, with a rich program of over 50 events: conferences, exchanges and experiments on subjects ranging from deeptech to social innovation.
    For this 7th edition, with regards to the Urbact program FEMACT-cities, the CIW was placed under the banner of gender equality as a transversal theme running through the entire program.

    Rosalie Lakatos

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  • Entrepreneurship - a gender issue in Sweden

    Rosalie Lakatos

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  • FEMACT-Cities Transnational meeting in Coimbra

    FEMACT-Cities 1st Quarterly Report just released !

    Rosalie Lakatos

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  • Female entrepreneurship - a way to development in rural areas

    Within the framework of its participation in the FEMACT-Cities project, the County Administrative Board of Skåne primarily works on how the proportion of female entrepreneurs can be increased and how the amount of venture capital that goes to female entrepreneurs can be higher.

     

    Hélène Mazaleyrat

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  • Why are we still talking about gender equality? The FEMACT-Cities Action Planning Network: Addressing the implementation gap in gender equality policy

    The FEMACT-Cities Action Planning Network: Addressing the implementation gap in gender equality policy

    Why are we still talking about gender equality?

     

    2024 will mark the 25 year anniversary of the Pact of Amsterdam, the legal document which made gender equality compulsory in the European Union. But even before that, gender equality policy had been enacted on national and regional levels in the member states. So why are we still talking about gender equality?

     

    Haven‘t we moved beyond this topic yet?

     

    Unfortunately, the reality is that not only haven‘t we closed the gap between men and women in wages, pensions, school achievement, participation in STEM fields, number of political representatives, and many other topics, in fact, recent data from the European Institute on Gender Equality (EIGE) shows that progress on gender equality in the EU-27 stalled or was in some places even negative between 2019 and 2022, due largely in part to the gendered effects of the pandemic.

    Mary Dellenbaugh

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