Gender and science watch system

In a staff working paper published on 15 May 2001[42], the Commission presented the recommendations emerging from the various activities implemented since the communication “Women and science: mobilising women to enrich European research”[43], namely to reinforce the policy forum, enrich the gender watch system and launch complementary research to obtain a better understanding of the “gender and science” issue.

The Gender Watch System will be stepped up to improve the integration of the gender dimension within the Framework Programme and research policy in general.

In 2001 the Commission continued to actively implement the Gender Watch System, which will be further stepped up in the Sixth Framework Programme in order to improve the integration of the gender dimension within research policy in general:

Some of the findings and recommendations of the overall monitoring exercise concerned the request for a detailed strategy and action plan for ERA; the importance of candidate countries’ participation and international cooperation in the context of ERA; the need to better understand how SMEs are working within the Framework Programme; the importance of giving further emphasis to the gender issue in the Framework Programme and to promote women in science; the need for better intelligence to support planning and operational activities, especially in the context of new instruments; and the urgent requirement to install a central management in ...[+++]formation system.