We will read more on this subject Marcel Kuntz's article.
The European Union is a financial institution that manages and pilots research programs throughout Europe. The State has long since transferred to the noble institution the competence of orientation and planning of research areas. It aligns millions to orient and develop sectors on the basis of projects read and evaluated by commissions whose job it is to select the "good projects" according to common "criteria".
We will therefore read on the European Commission website a document that is addressed to researchers and research institutions. This document describes the conditions that a "good project" must meet to be eligible - and elected - for European funding:
Once that's done, we'll listen to Europe explaining to us what needs to be done, with the face of a white-collar worker (in reality Mariya Gabriel:
We can bet, as the colleague who alerts us to the issue writes, that " gender equality will certainly be completed by intersectionality, anti racism, and actions against Islamophobia, transphobia, etc..« In a few words slipped in innocuously, Europe will have succeeded in introducing and making theories of gender and race one of the fundamental elements of Research.
Here are the conditions as they should be read (in French):
- Establishing a "gender equality" plan is a criterion for public institutions, higher education institutions and research organizations. Please note that if your project is selected, having a "Gender Equality" plan will be necessary before signing the contract (from 2022).
- The documents must be published on the institutions' websites and signed by the Managers.
- The GEP (Gender Equality Plan) must include
- specific means: recruitment of human resources and expert missions to apply them
- information collection and analysis: sex/gender disaggregated data on staff and students and annual reports based on indicators.
- Training: awareness raising/training on gender equality and unconscious gender bias for staff and decision makers.
- The GEP must cover and address through concrete measures and objectives:
- Work-life balance and organizational culture.
- Gender balance in leadership and decision-making.
- Gender equality in recruitment and career progression
- Integrating the gender dimension into research and teaching content.
- Measures against gender-based violence, including sexual harassment.
As Bernard Rougier had previously shown in aexcellent article published in Le Point, the transfer of the competence of financing Research from the State to Europe has finally become a transfer of steering of the orientations of Research in the long term. Europe therefore steers with an iron fist in a very clearly determined direction.
In the document directory of decisions and orientations of the European Commission "for the inclusive society" which can be read here, we already find interesting recommendations, in particular:
HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01-05: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment (EUR 9,9 million): Consider how intersectionality of gender with, eg, ethnicity, social origin, Religion, disability, and sexual orientation impacts one's position and rights in society and social hierarchy, as well as one's life and career choices.
Things are moving very quickly now...
