Spain

UNESCO Chair in Policies on Gender and Equal Rights between Women and Men (863), established in 2009 at 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) Website UNESCO Sector / Office responsible for the Chair/Network Social and Human Sciences