EIC-funded project GENDEX is looking for EIC beneficiaries to participate in a survey on how diversity impacts the fundraising journey for startups and scaleups. Read more below and have your say on gender and diversity indexill out the survey today!
In Europe’s innovation landscape, gender and diversity disparities persist, hindering inclusive growth. Despite strides in technology and entrepreneurship, female and diverse talent remains underrepresented. Existing data is fragmented, lacking a unified framework for assessment. In this context, GENDEX is working on a pilot initiative to develop a Gender and Diversity index.
As part of the spectrum of actions, GENDEX's mission is to bridge data gaps and enhance access to diverse talent within the innovation ecosystem. The aim of this survey is to collect relevant information on how diversity impacts the fundraising journey for start-ups and scale-ups founders and co-founders in the European innovation ecosystem.
Fill out the survey and help the GENDEX project to build on a gender and diversity index.
Please complete the survey by 13 September.
The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete. Your answers will be kept confidential, will not be associated with you or your organization, and will only be reviewed in aggregate form.
About GENDEX project and objectives
The GENDEX mission consists of the development of the Pilot Innovation Gender and Diversity Index, providing consistent information (currently missing or fragmented) to startups, scaleups, corporates, the EIC, other investors and funding bodies, market actors and policy makers across Europe. The overall aim is to improve the availability of all talent, particularly female talent, to the EIC portfolio of projects and companies and the EU innovation ecosystem. For the first time ever, a G&D Index will be elaborated including a wide range of indicators related to gender but also to diversity factors covering all European Member States plus the U.K.
The GENDEX consortium comprises a complementary set of recognized partners that includes IDC, European Women in VC and BluSpecs, authors of some of the key works in the field and also a guarantee of the best possible networks for stakeholder engagement. Such engagement will ultimately lead to maximization of the use of the G&D Index and hence, of its impact. GENDEX will also run a 2-phase validation with an experts’ group composed of at least 18 senior leaders.
Read further details on CORDIS.
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