FEMPOLCEU

Welcome to the webpage of FEMPOLCEU,
a research project funded by the European Union through the Resilience and Recovery Plan for Slovakia!

FEMPOLCEU is a research project funded in 2025-2026 by the European Union through the Resilience and Recovery Plan for Slovakia, within the Fellowships for Excellent Researchers grant scheme. The project is executed at the Institute of Public Policy, Comenius University Bratislava in Slovakia by the Pricipal Investigator Sofia Trommlerová. 

FEMPOLCEU focuses on low political representation of women in parliaments in gender-unequal countries of the EU. The main objective of the project is to understand women’s general standing in top politics, their success therein, and possible drivers thereof. The project conducts a detailed gender-based analysis of parliamentary elections that took place in the last three decades in two gender-unequal, culturally close countries with slightly different electoral systems – Slovakia and Czechia.

Find out more about the research profile of the Principal Investigator Sofia Trommlerová. Get in touch with the Principal Investigator here.

This research was supported by the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Slovak Republic, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under project FEMPOLCEU 09I03-03-V04-00317.