A groundbreaking initiative aimed at addressing the underrepresentation of women in the energy sector has commenced with the successful kick-off of the project “Empowering Underrepresented Women in the Energy Sector” – EUWES.
This project, financed by the European Union, brings together four organizations dedicated to environmental and gender justice: DOOR, ESF, Focus and WECF.
Launching a EU funded project to reverse the underrepresentation of women in the energy sector in April 2023
The kick-off meeting was held in the city of Ljubljana on 17th an 18th May 2023 and served as a pivotal moment for project partners to come together and align their efforts towards the project objectives.
More about kick-off meeting on link!
DOOR presented the EUWES project at a meeting for users of the CERV program in Brussels
Kick-off meeting for beneficiaries of action grants selected under the calls CERV-2022-EQUAL, CERV-2022-GE, and CERV-2022-NRCP, took place on 22 and 23 June 2023 in Brussels. DOOR was one of the participants, as representative of the consortium of the project EUWES
More about meeting in Brussels on link!
EUWES Munich Meeting of Partners
On 15th and 16th of November, a partnership meeting and training were held within the EUWES project.
Partner organizations exchanged the results of mapping policies, laws, measures, and plans related to gender equality in the energy sector in each country, based on which a comparative analysis of the situation in each country will be prepared. Discussions also revolved around mapping relevant stakeholders and interviews conducted in each country. The following day, the partner organization ESF organized a capacity-building training for the participating organizations in the project.
More about meeting in Munchen on link!
Work Package 1 – Mapping and evaluation of the national situation and key stakeholders – the first work package of the EUWES project completed!
In this working package, a multi-level analysis and mapping of national gender policies and strategies in the energy sector were conducted, enabling the identification of the main obstacles for women employed in the energy sector. Relevant stakeholders at the national level (national policy makers, stakeholders from the energy sector, higher education institutions, and labour market organizations) were identified and encouraged to participate in project activities. On the other hand, women in the energy sector and female students in technical faculties focused on energy were identified as the main target groups and were mobilized to engage in project activities. This working package delivers four interesting reports::
The Mapping methodology (D1.1) was developed as a guideline for partners from Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, and Spain to analyse key national gender and energy policies and identify stakeholders and target groups for implementing project activities – primarily advocacy activities as well as training activities to be conducted within the project.
Click here to learn more about the methodology!
Report on the mapping of national gender policies in energy sector (Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain) (D1.2) provides an overview of legislation and policy frameworks related to women’s rights in Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain concerning gender and sex, labour market relations, and active employment policies, as well as a review of the situation in the energy sector from a gender perspective regarding the representation of women in managerial positions in the energy sector. These reports are prepared separately for each of the EUWES countries and can be found in English and national languages.
Links to the Croatian report in English and Croatian!
Links to the German report in English and German!
Links to the Slovenian report in English and Slovenian!
Links to the Spanish report in English and Spanish!
Mapping of key stakeholders (D1.3) – This report is not a public document, but the results were used in the preparation of the “Report on the mapping of national gender policies in energy sector”. This report contains an analysis of over 40 interviews conducted by the EUWES partners in Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, and Spain in order to obtain key information, opinions, attitudes, and suggestions regarding the gender perspective in the energy sector.
Comparative analysis of the national situation (D1.4) provides an overview of the current gender perspective in the energy sector of Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain, highlighting the main gender policies and energy policies in each EUWES country, as well as differences and similarities between EUWES countries. The analysis is based on four national reports (D1.2) prepared by EUWES partners. These reports demonstrate the main results of the desk-method research, which includes an analysis of conducted interviews with stakeholders (D1.3) as well as an analysis of data on current steps in advocating for gender improvement in the energy sector operating in the spheres of policy, labor market, and education.
Click here to learn more about the Analysis!
Work Package 2 – Exchange of the good practices training and support
In this working package training materials were created for all target groups. The training material sets have been created by ESF and WECF and provided to all partners so that they can translate them (especially the ones for stakeholders and beneficiaries) and use them in each of their countries. Training material will be public avaliable in October 2024 as part of D2.2 Training materials for training of the key stakeholders and D2.3 Training materials for training of the beneficiaries.
As part of this working package the following training sessions were held for partners in period April 2023 until March 2024:
- Online: Training on mapping methodology by WECF (11th of July 2023)
- Online: Training on communication by ESF (1st of February 2024)
- Live Munchen:
- Training on feminist moderation by ESF (16th of November 2023)
- Exchange on national mapping gender policies reports by WECF (16th of November 2023
- Training on gender-energy-nexus by ESF (16th of November 2023)
More about meeting in Munchen on link!
Work Package 3 – Advocacy campaigns and activities
In this working package four National advocacy plans was created (Croatia, Germany, Slovenia and Spain) and Joint policy recommendations. This working package delivers two interesting reports and and by and of project another one will be deliverd:
The D3.1 National advocacy plan – four national advocacy plans was created (Croatia, Germany, Slovenia and Spain). All advocacy plans incorporate key project activities, such as drafting policy briefs containing crucial policy recommendations for each country, organizing roundtable discussions on gender equality in the energy sector, and engaging in bilateral meetings with decision-makers. However, these plans are tailored to the cultural and social context of each selected country.
Link to the Croatian National advocacy plan!
Link to the German National advocacy plan!
Link to the Slovenian National advocacy plan!
Link to the Spanish National advocacy plan!
National advocacy plan in Croatia has started with first activities
- Social media advocacy plan – started in March 2024 and ongoing
- Roundtable “Looking into the Future: Gender Perspective in a Just Energy Transition” – 8th March 2024. More about roundtable on link!
- Workshop „Experiences of Women and Female Students in the Circular Bioeconomy in Wood Sector“ – 28th February 2024. More about workshop on link!
- Bilateral meetings „Meeting with Ombudswoman” – 29th June 2023. More about meeting on link!
National advocacy plan in Germany has started with first activities
- Bilateral meetings as part of Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (19th and 20th of March 2024) and REN21 Strategy Meeting (18th of March 2024)
- Interdisciplinary support group as part of „Ecofeminist Scorecard Workshop“(16th of March 2024)
National advocacy plan in Slovenia has started with first activities
- Round table on national level on gender equality in energy sector – „Conference Women in Energy ’24“ (7th March 2024)
National advocacy plan in Spain has started with first activities
- Bilateral meetings on March 7th 2024, March 20th 2024 and April 4th 2024
Work Package 4 – Communication and dissemination
In Working package 4, main achievements have been establish like robust communication strategy, visual identity and webpage (https://euwes.door.hr/). In total, under this work package virtual materials like leaflets was created ; 4 roll-ups on the project; 200 printed leaflets (50 per partner); promotional material – notebooks (100 per partner); tote bags (100 per partner). Under this work package, partners worked with media; each partner use its national media channels to promote the project. This working package delivers two interesting reports: Deliverable 4.1 Communication and Dissemination Plan (link on report) and Deliverable 4.2, the Visual Identity of the Project (link on report) with cohesive brand identity featuring a logo and templates for presentations and documents.
More about D4.2 report on link!
Work Package 5 – Management
This working package delivers one interesting reports. D5.2 Quality assurance plan is a document that outlines the objectives, methods, responsibilities, and risks for ensuring the quality of a project. In this document, there are steps for a quality assurance plan that suits project’s needs and goals and consider potential risk and issues.
More about D5.2 report on link!
Next steps – one more year to go
As part of Work Package 2, we have upcoming training sessions – 6 per each partner – which are essential for training 100 female students (per partner) and 50 women employed in the energy sector (per partner). Training materials will be available as part of deliverables D2.2 Training materials for training of the key stakeholders and D2.3 Training materials for training of the beneficiaries. In addition, s part of report D2.1 Training materials for training of the partners and exchange of the knowledge and good practices, capacity building for partners, capacity building for partners will be conducted. Here’s the schedule:
- Online: Training on policy recommendation by FOCUS (April 23rd, 2024)
- Live in Barcelona:
- Training on key stakeholders by WECF (May 16th, 2024)
- Training on key beneficiaries by ESF (May 16th, 2024)
- Online: in June 2024
Also Creation of the informal national support networks – 4 national national support networks will be esblished.
As part of Work Package 3, partners will conduct all activities they have committed to as part of their national advocacy plans: such as organizing events like workshops, conferences, round tables, holding bilateral meetings and policy brief composition and dissemination. Additionally, as part of this package one new report will be created D3.3 List of Decision-Makers on the national level targeted in the national advocacy campaign. The goal of this package is to reach and share EUWES message with at least:
- 100 key stakeholders and decision-makers in the energy sector 25 per partner.
- 100 key stakeholders and decision-makers in the education sector 25 per partner.
- 100 key stakeholders and decision-makers in the labour market 25per partner
Also 4 international events for EU decision-makers will be organise:
- 1st international policy dialogs
- 2nd international policy dialogs.
- 1st international panel discussions.
- 2nd international panel discussions
As part of Work Package 4, partners will conduct all activities they have committed to in Communication and dissemination plan but more focusing on sharing EUWES message with media trought press releases and creating short stories at least 5 per partner. The idea of “Short Stories” is to highlight female role models.
Additionally, as part of this package two new reports will be created D4.3 Press releases and D4.4 Communication and dissemination report.
As part of Work Package 5 the report D5.1 Progress report will be finalised. This report serves as a document that provides an overview of activities and achievements on at the halfway period of project implementation, in this case for EUWES it is 12-month implementation period of the project. This report offers a detailed review of progress, identifies achieved goals, and analyzes the challenges encountered during the reporting period. Also there will be Final report by end of project.
Partners wll held 12 meeting- 2 live meeting (already planned for May 2024 in Barcelona and February/March 2025 in Zagreb) and 10 online meetings.
For all news, interesting events you wish to attend, and reports you want to follow, stay tuned and follow the following pages:
EUWES webpage – https://euwes.door.hr/
DOOR webpage, Instagram Facebook and Linkedin
WECF webpage, Instagram Facebook Linkedin and X
FOCUS webpage, Instagram Facebook Linkedin and X
ESF webpage, Instagram Facebook and X
More on in this Progress report!
