A 4 years research project (2018-2022), awarded by the prestigious Horizon 2020 ‘Science with and for Society’ (SWAFS) grant, with partner-institutes from Austria, Germany, Portugal Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany—CHANGE is an implementation project aiming at gender equality in science and research. CHANGE aims to support research in the field of gender inequality, to facilitate and produce gender equality knowledge, and to implement the outcomes (as constructive gender equality plans) in various types of organizations and institutes. Through mutual learning and networking, CHANGE will enable partners to become resource centers skilled to provide knowledge and expertise to individuals or departments that will be available for experience exchange, support and mentorship in the country and region after the project is finished. Regular inclusion and exchange with national and European stakeholders (policy makers, researchers, ministries etc.) ensures a spill-over effect of CHANGE results to other research performing organizations (RPOs) and research funding organizations (RFOs) in their respective countries as well as with other ministries in the whole European area. Thus, CHANGE contributes to the advancement of gender equality in the European Research Area by stimulating institutional cultural change towards gender equal work environments in RPOs and fostering the importance of gender dimension inclusive research and innovation programs in RFOs.
