Best Practice Booklets

The booklet examines the main challenges that women face in advancing academic careers, and proposes concrete actions to address these challenges focusing on three main directions that have been shown to foster women’s advancement:

• build a supportive environment,
• build career development initiatives and
• establish mentoring programs.

This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

A short publication with best practices and suggestions for retaining and supporting the transition of female students to Ph.D. positions (directed to university departments). This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

A short publication including advices and advantages of studying and choosing Informatics as a career (directed to students at different school levels). This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

A short publication with best practices and suggestions for attracting more girls to informatics, recruiting and retaining female students (directed to university departments). This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

A short publication with best practices for supporting the transition of Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions (directed to university departments). This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

Now in its second edition, this compact resource is published by the Informatics Europe Working Group "Women in Informatics Research and Education" and endorsed by the European Commission. It provides deans and department heads clear and simple best practices to increase the participation of women in their institutions, both as students and as employees. Many tips were gathered directly from colleagues in leading academic positions who have successfully implemented actions that attract and retain more women in their organisation.