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UNESCO Chair in Policies on Gender and Equal Rights between Women and Men (863), established in 2009 at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Fields / Disciplines
Gender issues.
Objectives
The main specific objectives of this Chair are to:
- promote research strategies, applying perspectives and analytical categories that consider women;
- enable exchanges with university networks that work in this field, on a regional, national and international level,
- setting up cooperation agreements with public organizations that aim to respond to these objectives;
- design, apply and evaluate training programmes for teachers who work in different levels of education;
- promote courses, specialisation programmes, seminars and scientific meetings to reflect on and exchange ideas and initiatives.
Host Institution
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Membership
Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Gender
UNESCO Sector / Office responsible for the Chair/Network
Social and Human Sciences
Contact: Dra Maria Angeles Duran Heras, Project leader
Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Ciudad universitaria de cantoblanco C/Einstein 1
28049 Madrid
Spain
E-mail: dur(at)ieg.csic.es
Phone: +34-91-602-23-00 EXT : 2388
Fax:+34-91-304-57-10