OTU1 – Becoming an INSPIRE Change Catalyst. This open training unit is meant to provide people to be affiliated with INSPIRE as experts and mentors and trainers with necessary and useful knowledge and tools in their tasks as INSPIRE Change Catalyst.
Change Catalysts are important for inclusive GE-implementation: they provide crucial and contextual support and bring qualifying perspectives to the implementational work undertaken by gender practitioners.
Change Catalysts are important for inclusive gender equality implementation. In INSPIRE, change catalysts are both CoP facilitators and experts linked to each of the Knowledge & Support Hubs (KSH1, KSH2, KSH3, KSH4).
This Open Training Unit (OTU) provides you with the necessary and relevant knowledge, tools and resources to form part of INSPIRE as either a CoP facilitator or an expert.
In this training unit, you will find:
Chapter 1: About INSPIRE
In this chapter you will find:
- INSPIRE Coordinator Rachel Palmén will give a short introduction to INSPIRE's objectives and policy standpoints, as well as expected outcomes.
Go to INSPIRE's events' page to see more about upcoming events and news.
Chapter 2: INSPIRE Change Catalysts
In this chapter you will find what we hope is relevant and useful information about two types of INSPIRE Change Catalysts:
- CoP Facilitator
- INSPIRE Expert
This includes what being an INSPIRE Change Catalyst entails, as well as tasks in INSPIRE.
Chapter 3: Types of Support for CoP Facilitator & CoP member
In this chapter you will find basic information about the types of support available for INSPIRE CoPs:
- synthesised state-of-the-art research
- economic support
Chapter 4: Main Events & Outputs - Experts & CoP Facilitators
In this chapter you will find basic information about the structure and logic of INSPIRE and the planned events to help you see where your involvement fits into the bigger picture.
Authors: Rachel Palmén (Open University of Catalonia), Liv Baisner Petersen (University of Southern Denmark), and Eva Sophia Myers.
The GEAM is a survey to help practitioners, activists, researchers or other staff to collect solid gender equality data in organisations. Targeting employees (academic & administrative) or students, it offers insights regarding people’s perceptions and experiences across several dimensions of gender and intersectional inequalities. The questionnaires have been translated into different languages and can be customised, i.e. reduced in length or amplified with additional questions.
Since it initial development in 2020, the GEAM has been used by more than +50 universities and research centres across Europe, generating +10k responses. It offers a framework to collect high quality comparable data on working conditions that facilitate dialog and learning within and across organisations.
Launched in July 2024.
OTU3 - GEP success factors distills recommendations for effective GEP design and implementation based upon QCA analysis.
OTU4 - Inclusive Data Monitoring provides recommendations for inclusive data monitoring and indicator development.
This unit aims to provide an introduction into the basics of data monitoring, from exploring the various definitions of data and why inclusivity in data practices is crucial, to looking at the different methods to assess progress in gender equality (linking these to Gender Equality Plans) and explaining how to develop inclusive indicators for data monitoring.
Authors:
Dr. Maria Karaulova, Merve Yorulmaz, Carolina Wienand-Sangare (Fraunhofer ISI)
Dr. Lena Weber (GESIS)
Launched in May 2025.
OTU5 - GEAM Advanced Statistical Analysis provides guidance on analyzing intersecting inequalities and longitudinal GEAM data.
OTU6 - Intersectional policy design provides a toolkit for assessing intersectional impact of equality measures.
OTU7 - Innovation policy design provides guidance on mainstreaming gender into innovation policy targeting the private sector.