First Annual RE-WIRING Full Consortium and Stakeholder Meeting

The research project Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment (RE-WIRING), funded by Horizon Europe, kindly invites you ot their first annual meeting. The programme consists of a two parts.

1. Welcome, by Professor Ivo Giesen, head of the Utrecht University School of Law
   The morning session is open to invited guests only. 
   It will address the development of the RE-WIRING Transformative Equality Approach (TEA). 
2. The afternoon session is open to all stakeholders. Please register.
   Co-creation with stakeholders is a defining element of the RE-WIRING project; the analysis of and quest for effective solutions to existing gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps can only come about in close collaboration of the research team with relevant stakeholders. In the afternoon session, we therefore wish to engage with a variety of stakeholders.

Programme

• 8:45 - 9:15: Arrival with coffee/tea
• 9:15 Welcome 
• 9:25 – 9:45 The Grant Authority perspective by Katherine Quezada/Jeanne Lenders (European Commission, online)
• 9:45 – 10:00 Aims and set-up of our meeting by Linda Senden

Morning session: development of the Transformative Equality Approach by consortium members (TEA), on invitation only

In this session the focus will be on the joint discussion and development by the consortium researchers of the overall theoretical and conceptual approach and framework of the project. This framework is to underlie and guide the research in the different work packages on the existing structural gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps in amongst others education, employment, economic field, decision-making and representation and on finding effective solutions to these. This framework will also be the starting point for the final deliverable of the project, which is the RE-WIRING Handbook on mainstreaming an intersectional transformative equality approach in Africa and Europe.

• 10:00 – 11:00 Theory and Methods Innovation Lab (part 1) - Mapping and filtering of relevant concepts and theories
• 11:00 – 11:20 Coffee/tea break
• 11:20 – 12:30 Theory and Method Innovation Lab (part 2) – Evaluating the concepts and their validity with regard to a) differing cultural contexts, b) the impacts of various crises and c) their transformative power and relevance
• 12:30 – 13.30 Lunch and walk-in of stakeholders

Afternoon session: co-creation of the TEA and engagement with stakeholders, please register

Co-creation with stakeholders is a defining element of the RE-WIRING project; the analysis of and quest for effective solutions to existing gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps can only come about in close collaboration of the research team with relevant stakeholders. In the afternoon session, we therefore wish to engage with a variety of stakeholders with a view to having their input and feedback on the first outcomes of the Theory and Method Innovation Lab, on their knowledge and experience with mainstreaming gender equality, the development of gender-sensitive policymaking, intersectional analysis, including in times of crises and cross-cultural settings, and the development and use of different (training) tools for those purposes.

• 12:30 – 13.30 Lunch and walk-in of stakeholders
• 13:30 – 14:45 Discussions in break out rooms  
• 14:45-15:00 Coffee/tea break
• 15:00 - 16.45 Roundtable with stakeholders
• 16:45 - 17:00 Next steps and closure
• 17.00 – 18.00 Drinks