20 of November 2019 the ACT project (https://www.act-on-gender.eu / project) together with Centre for Social Research (LSTC), Vilnius University (VU), Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) organized the Seminar MAINSTREAMING GENDER IN THE ACADEMY AND RESEARCH of Gender Equality Communities in Central and Eastern Europe. Chairwomen of BASNET Forumas Executive Committee Dr. S. Pralgauskaitė represented association in the Seminar. During the Seminar there was introduced developed by EIGE GEAR (Gender Equality in Academia and Research) tool, facilitating the practical implementation of institutional change promoting gender equality process in research organization from designing a gender equality plan to assessing its impact.