The Department of Accounting, FEUT is part of a consortium in the framework of Horizon 2020 projects. The title of the project is “Leading Towards Sustainable Gender Equality Plans in research institutions – LeTSGEPs” and aims at implementing Gender Equality Plans in academic and research institutions. The project is expected to carry out its activities within a 4-year period, starting from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2023. The Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana, is the only research institution in Albania involved in this project as partner. The other members of the consortium are prestigious institutions from different European countries.

Name of Partner Institution (Country)

1- (Coordinator of the project) Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)

2- RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

3- Paris School of Economics (France)

4- Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbia)

5- Università di Messina (Italy)

6- University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics (Albania)

7- Uniwersytet Warszawski (Poland)

8- Max PlanckGesellschaft (Germany)

The members of the project, involved in the Grant Agreement signed between the partner parties and the European Commission in January 2020 are lecturers of the Accounting and Management Department, from the Faculty of Economics, UT and the Faculty of Social Sciences, UT.

Starting from January 2020, several meetings and activities were held in the framework of the project, where the first meeting was held on January 20-21st 2020 at the coordinating institution of the project, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Modena, Italy. The scope of the meeting was to introduce the work packages and planning of the necessary activities for the continuity of the work organization.

During the meeting, specific needs of the partners in the consortium were discussed and the Agreement of the Consortium was finalized.

The second meeting was held in February, this time in the form of a teleconference through a Skype call where all project partners were again participants. The objective of the second meeting was the discussion on the activities related to the second work package of the project: "Conducting a study on the current situation of Gender Equality Plans in the Institutions Participating in the project"..

During March-October 2020, a series of meetings were held online with the Partner Institutions to ensure the sustainability of the project even during pandemic. Starting from September, the activities of the project and the online multilateral meetings amongst partners have restarted.

For the academic year 2020-2021, activities of the project within the framework of providing trainings in regard to the Budget Plans in Research Institutions have been predicted. These trainings will be held online and most likely in four modules:

Module 1: Presentation with the concepts of Gender Equality. Module 2: The Context of Gender Equality. Module 3: Planning and Module 4: Gender Based Budgeting. Participants in these trainings will be members of the working group with the LeTSGEPs project, mentors, administrative staff, interested members of the Universities, and doctoral students.

We invite all the interested parties to follow the activities of this project on the project website https://letsgeps.eu/ as well as on our twitter account @LetsgepsA. In case you would like to have more information, or you would like to be involved in or future activities please contact us by sending an email to Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.