QUING
Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies

FP6 Integrated Project - 2006-2011

Mieke Verloo - Scientific Director

Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) - Co-ordinator

Understanding Europe: the case of gender+ equality policies

The European Union values diversity and inclusion; yet at the level of its member states, many examples of exclusion and polarisation can be found, whether the focus is on gender, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. The research project “Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (QUING)” tackled these issues to provide the knowledge for inclusive gender+ equality policies. QUING was funded within the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme over a period of 54 months (2006-2011).

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2011 Symposia on QUING Research

A workshop jointly organised by UN Women and QUING was recently held at Bratislava (June 6). The meeting was dedicated to discussing gender equality and policy responses to violence against women, with a geographical focus on South-Eastern Europe.

In mid-April, a symposium at Lancaster dealt with gender-based violence policies in the EU. The meeting was organised in connexion with the final project reporting. Presentations were given by Magdalena Dabrowska, Zelia Gregoriou, Liz Kelly, Andrea Krizsán, Raluca Maria Popa , Lise Rolandsen Agustín, Sofia Strid, Mieke Verloo, and Sylvia Walby. Abstracts are available here.

As a result of a workshop on gender+ equality policies in the German-speaking countries, held at Vienna on 31 January, two papers are available on intimate citizenship in Germany and non-employment in Austria.

Declaration on Gender+ Training

Here you can read the Madrid Declaration on Advancing Gender+ Training in Theory and Practice drafted at the recent OPERA Conference on Gender+ Training (Madrid, February 3-4, 2011). Feel free to take a look at the conference programme, which includes the keynote address by Carol Bacchi (pp. 30-45).

Forthcoming

A number of QUING papers will be published in two forthcoming volumes on The Europeanisation of gender equality policies. A discursive-sociological approach, edited by Emanuela Lombardo & Maxime Forest, and Institutionalizing intersectionality. Comparative European analyses, edited by Andrea Krizsán, Hege Skjeie & Judith Squires.

They will appear with Palgrave Macmillan in the new Gender and Politics Series.