The FESTA project’s aims were twofold:
- to implement changes in the working environment of academic researchers in the partner institutions in areas that tend to disadvantage female researchers
- on basis of the work done in partner institutions and lessons learnt therewith, produce recommendations, handbooks and tools to be used in similar endeavours all over Europe.
The ultimate aim was to encourage female researchers to stay and make a career in the academy and to create organizational environments where their competence is valued and fostered.
FESTA worked with:
- Awareness raising (individual and organizational awareness)
- Decision making and communication processes (formal and informal)
- Perceptions of excellence (in appointment and promotion processes and in everyday research environments)
- Daily interactions (in meetings and in PhD supervision)
- Resistance to gender equality work.