D2.2e Central & East Europe Country Cluster Report

This is one of the four (EU27) country cluster reports which analyse the results of the expert survey conducted by INSPIRE, a Horizon Europe project aimed at building a sustainable centre of excellence on inclusive gender equality in research and innovation (R&I).

The survey involved one expert in each EU27 Member State and provided crucial support to the INSPIRE research programme on structural change towards inclusive gender equality in R&I, through:

• collecting information and analysis on policy developments and research debates at the national level; and
• identifying engaged stakeholders, other potential experts and relevant resources in the country, as well as collecting suggestions to support existing or potential initiatives for developing new communities of practices (CoPs).

The information collected was also meant to be a useful resource for the R&I ecosystem in Europe and beyond, including policy makers, researchers and equality practitioners across Europe.

This Central and Eastern Europe country cluster report analyses the results of the survey in eleven countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The information used to elaborate this report was collated by the following experts:

• Bulgaria Georgi Apostolov
• Croatia Brigita Miloš
• Czechia Jana Dvořáčková
• Estonia Martin Jaigma
• Hungary Beáta Nagy
• Latvia Nina Linde
• Lithuania Aurelija Novelskaitė
• Poland Marta Warat and Karolina Sikora
• Romania Monica Stroe
• Slovakia Alexandra Bitušiková
• Slovenia Martin Pogačar, Iva Kosmos and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc2

For further details regarding the methodology followed to collect the information and elaborate this report, please refer to the Methodological Annex.