EUWES News & Events

On 7th August, Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) held a workshop at the Munich Solar Camp as part of our EUWES project. With around 15 participants, WECF focused on the social impact of the energy transition. The guiding questions were: How can the energy...

On the 19th of July, our two-hour EUWES workshop was held for one of the target groups, 21 high school students at Biberkor Montessori School in Germany. We explored how gender relates to the energy sector and what challenges and opportunities await us in the...

At the meeting of REScoop.eu Gender Power and Inclusion Working Group on July 10th, Katharina Habersbrunner from Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF e.V.) presented the activities of project ‘EUWES (Empowering Underrepresented Women in the Energy Sector)’. Despite...

On June 21st, 2024, ESF contributed to a workshop organized by the GI-ESCR at the 10th International Degrowth Conference and 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics in Pontevedra, Spain. ESF shared some of the lessons learned in the EUWES...

The energy sector is one of the least gender‑diverse sectors. At European Union level, only 24% of energy sector employees are women, while in Slovenia, women make up only 15% of all employees in the energy sector (EU Gender Equality Index). Women are...

The D2.1 Deliverable "Training Materials for Training of the Partners and Exchange of Knowledge and Good Practices," has been released as part of a capacity building effort for partners on the EUWES project to dismantle gender stereotypes in the energy sector. Three...

„I love technology!“: During a Brown Bag Lunch organised by WECF e.V. on Wednesday, 5th of June, women working in the energy sector shared their different experiences related to gender mainstreaming and the capacity-strengthening of women.   This initiative for...

The energy sector across Europe presents a significant gender disparity, with women still greatly underrepresented. In the EU, the energy sector workforce is predominantly male, comprising 77.9%, while women represent only 22.1%. This gender gap extends to the...

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...