hub.brussels, dedicated to gender equality

There appears to be an unequal presence of men and women in various fields, including scientific research and innovation. It’s essential to pursue efforts aimed at reducing or even eliminating the gender gap in education, in order to break away from gender clichés and enable everyone to gain self-confidence and develop the same level of aspirations. This involves working with everyone, at various levels. A mission for hub.brussels!

A Gender Equality Plan (GEP), as defined by the European Commission as part of its Horizon Europe funding program, is an official document that brings together a set of commitments and actions that aim to promote gender equality in an organisation through institutional and cultural change.

The GEP concerns public and private research organisations, higher education institutions and public bodies (ministries, research funding organisations, etc.) applying for funding under the Horizon Europe framework programme for research and innovation.

As a public company, hub.brussels’ missions include supporting the sustainable transformation of the Brussels economy and making entrepreneurship accessible to all, with a focus on:

• Enabling everyone to consider entrepreneurship as a means of emancipation
• Helping to increase the employment rate in Brussels
• Growing the proximity economy for the benefit of the local economy
• Increasing the number of people who create economic projects among those who are furthest from entrepreneurship, including women

In this context, hub.brussels supports female entrepreneurship in the broadest sense, with its Awareness Business Unit created in 2021, and aims to welcome families with children, and single-parent families in particular, facilitating all their needs, with  the Kids friendly label.