The Gender Equality Plan of the Ri.MED Foundation
The Gender Equality Plan (GEP) represents a strategic tool for the Ri.MED Foundation to promote gender equality, enhance talent, and strengthen scientific excellence, innovation, and institutional competitiveness. Through policies and concrete actions aimed at equity and inclusion, the GEP contributes to fostering an increasingly inclusive and responsible organizational culture.
Building on the work initiated in 2022, the Ri.MED GEP 2026–2028, approved by the Board Resolution No. 112 of 19/12/2025, consolidates and expands the undertaken initiatives, aligning them with the new European Strategy for Gender Equality 2026–2030, with particular attention to the integration of the gender dimension in research, governance, and personnel management.
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The annual GEP event “GENDER EQUALITY PLAN: Results, impact, and new perspectives”
The annual GEP event “GENDER EQUALITY PLAN: Results, Impact, and New Perspectives,” will be held on February 4, 2026, and is addressed to all Ri.MED staff. The event will explore gender equality policies in research and innovation, with particular reference to the integration of gender equality into Horizon Europe program and the UNI PdR 125:2022 certification process. The event will also include the presentation of a relevant best practice, as well as an overview of the results achieved during the three-year implementation of the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) and the new actions planned for the three-year period 2026–2028.
Training course on Gender Equality
On April 2024, the online training course on gender equality started for Ri.MED staff. The course is managed by STUDIO COME, based in Rome, specialized in the promotion of gender equality in the workplace. The training course, lasting a total of 18 hours, aims to raise participants’ awareness on gender issues, on contrasting stereotypes and gender discrimination, as well as on unconscious bias. The training course will end in October 2024.
The launch event of the Gender Equality Plan
“Valuing gender diversity in R&D to enhance research scientific impact”: the launch event of the Ri.MED GEP took place on 30 January 2024, at the CNR Conference Hall (Palermo). It was an occasion of discussion and sharing, which saw the participation of all Ri.MED staff, and during which the Foundation’s commitment to promoting gender equality and non-discrimination at all levels was discussed, with a particular focus on those actions that will be strengthened and/or launched for this purpose in the next three years.
