The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Cyprus) is coordinating a new project entitled ‘Youth4Youth: Empowering Young People in Preventing Gender-based Violence through Peer Education’, funded by the Daphne III program of the European Commission. This 24-month project is being  implemented in partnership with Casa Delle Donne per Non Subire Violenza (Italy), the Centre of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities-University of Barcelona (Spain), the European Anti-Violence Network (Greece) and Women’s Issues Information Centre (Lithuania). (more…)

ACCEPT PLURALISM is about tolerance and acceptance of ethnic, cultural and religious diversity in contemporary Europe. This new European FP7 project [Socio-Economic Sciences & Humanities], investigates the meanings of tolerance in a variety of contexts with a special focus on ‘what needs to be done’ actually in Europe in order to proceed to more coherent societies, while respecting ethnic, religious and cultural plurality. (more…)

Participants from over 20 European countries attended the first FRAGEN meeting in 2009

For the first time, the most influential feminist texts from all European countries have been united and made available in an online database titled Fragen (Frames on Gender). The Fragen project aims to collect the most important texts from the feminist movements of the second part of the 20th Century from 29 EU member states, Turkey and Cratia, and aims to facilitate comparative research into the feminist thinking across Europe. (more…)

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) was awarded a grant by the European Commission European fund for the Integration of Third-country Nationals to implement a transnational project entitled “Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education – Promoting integration and mutual understanding through dialogue and exchange”. The project ran for 18 months and ended in June 2011. (more…)