The Nordic Gender Equality Fund finances collaborations that promote gender equality.
Through the Fund, the Nordic Council of Ministers issues an annual call for proposals for funding projects in which at least three organisations, from at least three Nordic countries, collaborate.
The aims of the projects can be to contribute new knowledge, a sharing of experiences or Nordic networks.
NIKK administers the Fund on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers, including calls for proposals, assessment of proposals, and monitoring of results.
The next Nordic Gender Equality Fund call for proposals will open in March 2023.
2022 The project aims to create a sustainable network of West Nordic feminist activists who will become a powerful voice in the Nordic feminist movement and future feminist cooperation. The project will bring together key activists and groups from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark and Iceland in a closed seminar and open conference, to be held »
2022 In Europe, the right to health is upheld in the European Social Charter, obliging states to take measures to promote health and to provide health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed differences in health care systems and crisis-management approaches across Nordic and Baltic countries. A consistent finding across these countries is that migrants, as well »
2022 The aim of the project Minority Stress – Interfem’s Network for Feminist Activism, is to strengthen the Nordic network for racialized female and transgender politicians and activists, and offer online capacity-building training and mentorship program for sustainable activism. Through the project gender equality, democratic participation, active citizenship, and political inclusion will be promoted. The participants »
2022 The project aims to build an understanding of how pressures to perform affect the careers of academic knowledge workers with different family situations, especially those who wish to have children and those who cannot (or choose not to) have children. The project will focus on academic knowledge workers, but the findings will reflect experiences of »
2022 The project aims to develop a website, an online platform, representing the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) and its members. The website enhances the visibility of the networks’ mission, to advance the inclusion and meaningful participation of women in all phases of peace processes, as well as the members themselves who consist of over hundred women »
2022 The AGDA project brings into sharper focus the gender-paradox of innovation, especially in the area of green transition, while seeking to provide a knowledge base and a shared platform for co-creating better practices for inclusion, diversity and gender equality through processes of programme ideation, design and implementation. The project consists of a literature study, a »
