The Joint Secretariat of GENERA met in Paris on the 16th and 17th November 2016. The meeting was kindly hosted by GENERA consortium member Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Representatives from GENERA’s 13 partners gathered at the meeting. The main purpose was to report on the technical progress of the project and plan the coming tasks, using the experience thus far of the the project to inform effective future implementation. 2017 will see Gender-in-Physics days hosted by nine of the consortium members across Europe and two Knowledge Exchange Events. Sign up to the GENERA newsletter to keep up to date.