The INTEGER Work Packages
The project is divided into seven work packages:
WP1 Project Management (led by UKRC) contains the systems to effectively implement; monitor and quality assure the work plan.
WP2 Transformational Action Planning (led by CNRS) creates the Implementation teams at two levels: Institutional and Local. WP2 refines updates and clarifies the skeletal Action Plans with defined activities across the 4 themes and undertakes an assessment of the issues to be addressed within the participating departments and institutes to see how organisation-wide policies impact in practice at a local level. The assessment results are analysed and shared in the first cross-partnership Exchange of Experience Seminar in WP3. Action Plans will be finalised with measurable targets and indicators and verified by the external gender expert before implementation begins in Month 13.
The TAPs will be revised and reviewed on an annual basis and the results of each review shared at Exchange of Experience Seminars WP3. TAPs may well be updated depending on the results of these reviews. The updated TAPs, recommendations from the EofE Seminars and the planned implementation measures for the coming year are presented in Review Seminars in each of the implementing institutions.
WP3 Exchange of Experience (led by UKRC) enables knowledge transfer across the partnership and brings in expertise from the INTEGER Ambassadors who will offer ad hoc advice to the Implementation Teams within a mentoring framework. WP3 delivers Transformational Change training at each institution at two levels: to senior management to present the strategic overview and business case and at implementation team level to bring better understanding of the issues, how to tackle them and encourage ownership of the structural change approach to be adopted. After each review period, an Exchange of Experience Seminar will share learning and will pull together common issues, common approaches and common learning, and devolve agreed approaches for overcoming obstacles encountered in implementation.
WP4 Implementation (led by TCD) sees the action plan activities implemented at both Institutional and unit level. Progress towards targets will be monitored using templates provided by GESIS and an annual review of impact. Results of the reviews will be shared in 3 further WP3 Exchange of Experience Seminars, attended by gender experts and the INTEGER ambassadors, to offer advice on approach and share issues. Action Plans will be re-aligned to take in this learning. Review Seminars at each organisation will enable shared learning and recommendations for good practice made with the capacity to be implemented within the organisational plan as well as at the unit level.
WP5 Guidelines (led by CNRS) will create the key project output - a user-friendly and effective implementation model written utilising an 'approved code of practice' approach. The Guidelines will pull together the learning from the implementation across the partnership and will be a management tool made up of separate elements that together form a comprehensive toolkit for others to use. The Guidelines will, amongst other things, contain How To Guides, built on the project's learning and an evaluation toolkit from WP7. This management tools' key audience includes the participating organisations, other HEIs and Research Institutes in the partner member states and across Europe and other wider key actors identified in WP6 Dissemination.
WP6 Dissemination (led by SU) has three forms of activity – internally within each organisation; across the partnership utilising the key networks within each partner Member State and externally to a wide range of policy makers, stakeholders and other main actors from Europe and US, due to the composition of the Expert Group. The Expert Group will have a key role in the dissemination strategy and provide access to a global network.
WP7 Evaluation (led by GESIS) aims to improve the implementation of the actions plans by external feedback (formative evaluation) and to measure the effects and the impact of the action plans (summative evaluation). The baseline data of WP2 (Task 3) form the baseline for the evaluation. In return, the evaluation feedback feeds the review seminars to adjust the implementation process. Furthermore, the evaluation provides quantitative data on the basis of agreed indicators and comparison with comparable units in each partner institution to measure the effects and the impact of the action plans. Finally, a toolkit should make available the experiences of evaluating the implementation of gender action plans beyond the duration of the project to institutions outside the consortium. This toolkit will be part of the guidelines (WP5).