The Gender Equality Enhancement Fund is an annual funding call with the following objectives:
- To encourage innovative approaches to addressing gender inequality across HEIs;
- To facilitate gender equality initiatives that respond to the recommendations of the HEA Expert Group and/or Gender Equality Taskforce’s recommended actions; and
- To encourage cross-sectoral collaboration as a means to achieve national transformation.
To date, the HEA has awarded funding of €536,114 to advance gender equality initiatives in Irish higher education. Awards have been made across three areas:
- Research on or advancing gender equality initiatives in Ireland;
- Training programmes specifically addressing gender equality; and
- Athena SWAN capacity-building activities.
Projects funded under Gender Equality Enhancement Fund in 2020 and 2021 are set out in the table below.
HEI partners*
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Project title
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Year of award
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Funding
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DCU, DkIT and NUI Galway
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Mid-Career Development Programme for Women
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2020
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€50,200
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IADT, GMIT and MU
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Irish Network for Gender Equality in Computing (INGENIC): The Collective Voice for Gender Equality in Computing
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2020
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€23,800
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Carlow College, IT Carlow, LIT, MIC and WIT
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The development and implementation of a Gender Identity, Expression and Diversity Training Programme for staff in Irish HEIs
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2020
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€28,300
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DCU, NUI Galway, UCC, UCD and UL
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Supporting Athena SWAN in the Mathematical Sciences: Benchmarking and Networking
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2020
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€42,743
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RCSI, TU Dublin and UCC
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LIBRA - Future Proofing Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions - Experiential Learning in Simulation for Students Leaders
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2020
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€47,857
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IT Carlow, MU, TU Dublin and UCD
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TechMate: A best practice toolkit for driving sustainable acceleration towards gender equality in technology disciplines in HEIs.
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2020
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€33,000
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IT Sligo, TU Dublin and UCD
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You can be what you can see: pSTEM Role Models
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2020
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€35,714
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MU, NUI Galway and UL
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Preparing for Academic Advancement (PAA)
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2020
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€24,500
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TU Dublin, TCD, UCC, UCD and UL.
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Increasing the voice of women economists in the media and public discourse through training and promotion.
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2021
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€31,808
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DCU, TU Dublin and UL.
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Getting ahead versus getting along: Investigating how gender stereotypes are contributing to gender inequality in HEIs.
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2021
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€49,537
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AIT, Carlow College, IT Carlow, LIT, MIC, and WIT.
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Embedding Gender Identity, Expression & Diversity Training and Best Practice into Irish HEIs.
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2021
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€32,120
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AIT, IT Carlow, LIT, MTU and WIT.
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Embedding Equality Diversity and Inclusion in the Curriculum of the new Technological University Sector: EDIT Project.
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2021
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€37,926
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DCU, IT Sligo, MIC, MU, and TCD.
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Integrating the gender dimension into teaching, learning and educational outreach in initial teacher education.
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2021
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€19,000
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IADT, IT Sligo and TU Dublin.
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Working Women and the Menopause: a study of the impact of the menopause on careers of a sample of women working in the HEI sector in Ireland.
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2021
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€29,609
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DCU, MU, NUIG, TCD, UCC, and UCD and UL.
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Preparing for Academic Advancement (PAA)
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2021
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€50,000
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*lead applicants are indicated in bold.