The GÉANT Community Gender Equality Principles have been launched and published on the GÉANT Community website and we are inviting NRENs and affiliated organisations to endorse the principles and adopt them as guidelines for our community approach to gender equality.
What are the Principles?
Community Principles provide a vehicle to align thinking within NRENs and to carry out targeted activities as a community. Principles will be created when there is a strategic agenda in a specific space on which it would be beneficial for NRENs to align. They create not only a shared understanding of our position on a specific topic, but allow us to focus on specific joint actions to move forward within that space as a community. Gender Equality is a clear area where this approach can benefit both our strategic approaches and practical implementation of equality goals. You can read more about this new approach within the GÉANT Community Programme on our website.
What are the Principles for Gender Equality?
The GÉANT Community has developed seven gender equality principles that it wishes to endorse:
How can I endorse the Principles?
We are inviting each NREN and other affiliated organisations to sign up to and endorse these gender equality principles. By endorsing the principles, your organisation is making a commitment to supporting the principles in all aspects of its operations and to provide resourcing to both organisational and community efforts in order to meet the intentions of these principles, especially the first, listed above.
We will publish your organisational logo and a supporting statement on the community website to show your commitment.
For more information, please visit the community website.
What Happens Next?
The GÉANT Community Programme is supporting a series of work alongside the publication of the principles and we invite you to help us decide where to focus our efforts. We invite you to join the gender equality mailing list and join the discussion.
Recent initiatives that have been highlighted as part of this programme include:
- The GÉANT Mentoring Programme, which gives the opportunity for early career staff or others needing career support to match with a mentor in the community.
- The Supercomputing WINS programme, which provides opportunities for women to join the SCinet volunteer workforce for the SC Conference. Applications will opened for organisations outside the US in 2025.
- The IAM-HER initiative – a programme dedicated to uplifting women working in the trust and identity space.
We are also collating a series of training materials and other useful resources on the principles wiki space.
If you would like to know more about the Gender Equality Principles and programme of work, please reach out to nicole.harris@geant.org.
