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Nominate your organization for the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions

19/09/2022

Have your organization done a lot of work towards gender equality? Apply for your organization to be considered for the EU Award for Gender Equality Champions, a prize that recognises academic and research organisations that have achieved outstanding results in the implementation of gender equality measures. Application can be submitted until 13th of October.

There are three prize categories:

  1. Sustainable Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that can demonstrate a significant and sustained record of activity and a high level of achievement through the implementation of their GEP
  2. Newcomer Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have recently started implementing a GEP and can demonstrate the most progress in its implementation and achieved results
  3. Inclusive Gender Equality Champions: Organisations that have developed the most innovative inclusive GEP addressing intersections with other social categories such as ethnicity, social origin, sexual orientation and gender identity (LGBTI+) or disability

Candidates can only apply to one of these three categories. There will be in total 4 prizes awarded, with two winners for prize category one, one winner in the prize category two, and one winner in the last prize category.

Each winner will be awarded with EUR 100.000.

More information here

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