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GeNeus
Welcome to GENEUS Newsletter #2 - January 2018
What is GeNeus about?
GENEUS is a 2-year project funded by the European Commission - Erasmus+ KA2 Programme[1]. It involves 6 partners in 5 different countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
The GeNeus project - Gender Neutral Tools and Tests for Selection Processes - aims at the development, promotion and mainstreaming of a Set of Matrices of Gender Neutral Testing.
The lifecycle of the project will include different phases which aim at improving recruitment and evaluation processes in the labour market and professional education, focusing on gender equality in performance and aptitude testing.
Objectives
- To get an overview of the reality, demands and gaps of the selection processes in different environments
- To assess and analyse these processes, with a gender-neutral perspective
- To produce and deliver useful and free materials guaranteeing a gender-neutral approach in testing candidates.
Results
- Generic report on national testings processes: information on how SMEs, Public Administration and Post-Secondary Professional Education deal with selection processes and testing system in Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal and Spain.
- Set of Matrices of Gender Neutral Testing: based on best practices and needs assessed, development of new forms of Testing that will improve recruitment and evaluation processes. .
- Guide on Implementation of Matrices: information on how to concretely integrate new testing methodsin different areas of the labour market.
- Set of Application of Gender Neutral Testings for SMEs, Public Administration and Post-Secondary Professional Education.
What’s new on the project?
Third Partners’ meeting in Palermo, Sicily
On October 2nd and 3rd, the project’s partners met in Palermo, Sicily, for the third transnational partners’ meeting, hosted by Centro per lo Sviluppo Creativo Danilo Dolci.
The meeting represented an opportunity for partners to take stock of the activities thus far implemented and to outline together the next steps to follow in order to develop the project’s intellectual outputs.
Thanks to all partners’ contributions, the meeting was characterized by a dense exchange, further enriched by the comparison between the different realities and experiences from the partnership’s countries.
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Generic Report on Gender Neutral Testing’s summary
In the past months, GeNeus’ partners have been conducting desk and field research in order to compile national information on testing systems in use, with a particular focus on gender differences in individual performances, thus defining country-specific needs in terms of equal opportunities of access to higher education and the labour market for both genders.
The research has been based on a set of interviews each partner conducted with professionals and experts from Small and Medium Enterprises, Public Administration and Post-Secondary Professional Education. The results of the interviews were then inscribed in a background research on national contexts regarding the gender equality situation and legal framework on selection and hiring processes and gender discrimination.
The findings from each partner’s country have been summarised in a Generic Report on Gender Neutral Testing summary, which will soon be published!
What’s next?
The next step of the project will be the development of GeNeus’ second intellectual output: the Set of Gender Neutral Selection Tools and Tests. The partners have been actively working in this sense for the last months with the diffusion of gender neutral selection tests and will continue developing tools for a fairer selection process, for both women and men!
Partnership:
- Coordinator: Frauen im Brennpunkt / Austria
- Inova+ / Portugal
- Instituto Politecnico of Porto / Portugal
- Bimec / Bulgaria
- Centro per lo sviluppo creativo "Danilo Dolci"/ Italy
- Servicio Regional de Empleo y Formación de la Región de Murcia / Spain
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The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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