Management and equipment. Structure
Board of Directors and project leaders
Objectives
- Maintaining a specialized library on women’s and gender issues.
- Acting as an institutional resource for women’s studies and gender research and the political processes related to gender issues.
- Improving public access to documents and publications on gender issues.
- Collecting and disseminating information and documents on gender studies by establishing an electronic communications system – data bases, networks and an audio visual centre of gender issues – for researchers/general public in Estonia and abroad.
- Raising awareness of the general public on gender issues by arranging seminars and conferences and issuing publications.
- Promoting cooperation between academic and community institutions and NGOs interested in issues pertaining to women and gender.
- Coordinating the training/retraining of women and education on issues of importance to women and men in the goals of gender equality.
- Promoting research on gender issues.
Research and results
- Projects about trafficking and prostitution issues (2002-2009):
- NGO and Governmental Cooperation Across the South Caucasus to Develop a Joint Response to Trafficking in Women and Children (2007-2009).
- Publication: Suzanne Stiver Lie, Lynda Malik, Ilvi Jõe-Cannon, Rutt Hinrikus (Eds.), Carrying Linda’s Stones: An Anthology of Estonian Women’s Life Stories, Tallinn University Press, 2006.
- Projects in the area of education (since 2008) à Open Estonia Foundation funded a project to advance gender mainstreaming in Estonia’s educational system. Also, the Foundation supported a project that looked at gender sensitivity in Estonia’s kindergartens.
Ongoing projects:
- Ariadne Lõng Journal – It is Estonia’s first and only journal of women’s and men’s studies (since 2000). Website: ariadnelong.ee