This Congress gathered people interested by gender or diversity equality, mainly from Europe, the United States and Canada.

The speakers as well as the audience were from various backgrounds – academia, companies and consultants, as could be evidenced in the presentations styles and the questions.

EPWS was present in the Congress Programme through a presentation of its President about a Review of the 2017 EPWS benchmarking report to the French ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation on academic statuses in various European countries and the impact of women in science (https://epws.org/epws-2017-report-to-the-french-ministry-of-higher-education/) , and by posters from EPWS members Donne e Scienza (IT), HelWoR (FI), LNVH (NL) and WINGS (SE). Marcela Linkova (Chair, ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation and also Centre for Gender and Science, CZ, an EPWS member) summarized the EU actions in favour of Women in Science and asked the audience for help to forward to political level concerns on the place of gender in Horizon Europe, the next Framework Programme.

In addition of descriptions of good, this Congress offered original presentations on:

• cultural effects on Gender Equality approach in Japan;
• institutional and cultural barriers and the evolution of student numbers according to racial categories (Afro-American, Asian, Hispanic, and White);
• inclusive environments for diversity students in the USA, Ireland, the Netherlands;
• the creation of a collaborative text-to-speech tool to describe scientific figures to sight-impaired students by a blind IT PhD student (University of Sussex, UK);
• the Global Benchmarking 2018 survey of the Workplace Pride Foundation on organizational LGBTI policies and practices.