ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Documentation and Education

ATGENDER, ATGENDER, The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation will be founded as a broad association for academics, practitioners, activists and institutions in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies, Feminist Research, women’s rights, gender equality and diversity.
The association will create a permanent structure for the growing field of knowledge and practice in Europe.

The official founding is planned in May 2009.

The members of the association will constitute the major European network in Gender Studies;
The association will organise the three yearly scholarly ‘European Feminist Research Conference’;
A website and newsletter will establish and strengthen connections between specialists in different disciplines, in different countries and between universities and civil society;
The association aims to connect women’s and gender studies institutes/ departments/ centers/ units, gender research centres, women’s centres, women’s libraries and puclic and private centres for women’s rights and gender equality.