In February 2021, the development and implementation of the Gender Equality Plan was launched at the University of Gdańsk. After months of work, the University of Gdańsk's Social Responsibility Committee prepared a document with specific objectives and areas of action, including data collection and monitoring, promotion of good practices, as well as the organisation of…

Rector's Committee for Social Responsibility of Science (KomSON), established in November 2019 by the University of Gdańsk Rector - dr. hab. Jerzy Piotr Gwizdała, prof. UG, has published the Report titled ‘Women in science – managing diversity and gender equality within social responsibility of the University of Gdańsk’. Broad spectrum of University of Gdańsk activities in the area of social responsibility contributed…

The more gender egalitarian the country the less men are willing to back women’s causes – 42 country study. New 42 country study has found that the more gender egalitarian the country the less likely men are to support women’s causes. The study, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, was led by Dr Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka from…

The project, entitled Modifying Institutions by Developing the Gender Equality Plans (MINDtheGEPs), led by prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology (MWB) UG and MUG, Chairperson of the Rector’s Committee for Social Responsibility of Science, received European Commission’s funding under the esteemed Horizon 2020 Program. The project will be carried out at multiple University of Gdańsk…