Horizon Europe Gender Equality Plan Eligibility

EC Horizon Europe Requirement

How Trinity meets this requirement

Publication: a formal document published on the institution’s website and signed by the top management.

The 2023 TCD Athena Swan (AS) Gender Action Plan (GAP) is on our website here

Trinity committed to the new Athena Swan Ireland Charter in late 2021 with a letter signed by Provost Linda Doyle.

The Trinity Athena Swan Institutional Submission contains a letter signed in 2023 by Provost Linda Doyle.

Dedicated resources: commitment of resources and expertise in gender equality to implement the plan.

Trinity has a dedicated Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Office led by the Vice President for Equity, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (VP-EEDI). The VP-EEDI role became full time in September 2021. The EDI Office has a Head of EDI (full-time), an Equality Officer (full-time), an EDI Data Analyst and Athena Swan Project Officer (full-time) and a dedicated Executive Officer (full-time). The EDI office is assigned an annual budget from the Academic Services Division in College.

The University Athena Swan Committee (UASC), Chaired by the VP-EEDI, monitors actions and progress on the Gender Action Plan. This Committee meets approximately 4 times each academic year.

Trinity has two Athena Swan Champions in each School and there are currently 24 Self-Assessment Teams across schools and units working on Athena Swan applications and progressing local Gender Action Plans. The Trinity Athena Swan Champions Network meets regularly to build capacity and support equality work in schools and units.

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Sub-Committee is a Sub-Committee of Trinity College's People and Culture Committee, with responsibility for advising the People and Culture Committee on all EDI-related matters.

Data collection and monitoring: sex/ gender disaggregated data on personnel and students and annual or biennial reporting based on indicators.

Annually data is collated from the CORE HR platform by the EDI Office, anonymised and used for reporting to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for their Data Dashboards https://hea.ie/policy/gender/statistics/ Data on staff disclosing disabilities is reported to the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in Ireland as part of legal requirements for quotas in public sector employment annually.

Trinity’s all staff Athena Swan and EDI survey runs every two years and survey data is used for School and institutional Athena Swan applications and to assist with monitoring progress on GEP actions. This survey is available online and in paper formats to all staff. 

Qualitative data is also collected to inform EDI work across all equality grounds and in relation to Athena Swan actions.

Data is collected from students at registration and held by the Trinity Academic Registry and includes: sex, gender identity. The Equal Access Survey (EAS) is an annual, voluntary set of questions asked of first year full-time and part-time undergraduate students in HEA-funded education institutions (including Trinity). 

Training: awareness-raising/training for staff and decision-makers on gender equality.

The Trinity EDI Office offers access to five online training programmes including signposting to training from the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and the National Disability Authority, which include gender equality content.

The EDI Office and HR Learning and Organisation Development offer workshops throughout the academic year for staff in relation to EDI. Workshops on incorporating sex, gender and intersectional considerations into research funding applications and projects are available to staff.

The EDI in HE online course is mandatory for all TCD staff sitting on recruitment interview panels and on College Committees.

Unconscious bias training is offered via the SAGE online module and LinkedIn Learning.

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