The organisations behind this project are troubled by the increasingly harsh climate in society where alarming reports about the vulnerability of girls in the school environment and elsewhere in the public space are becoming progressively commonplace. Regardless of in which country sexual harassment occurs, it implies consequences for young women’s health, participation in the democratic process and overall room to manoeuvre in life.

This project has created a knowledge base and to strengthen the public opinion in the Nordic countries with respect to girls’ rights, gender equality, equal treatment and sustainable health. The aim is to strengthen the public opinion and to shed light on injustices from a Nordic perspective, make room for the situation of girls in the political agenda and demand responsible policy work. The project has also provided training for key persons involved in the implementation of these policies, as well as persons working within organisations that deal with young women’s issues.

How do feminist movements react to global crises, diversity and increased mobility? How are major inequalities handled in society? Which challenges are feminist movements in the Nordic countries facing today? The aim of this Nordic network was to identify and discuss the commonalities and specificities of feminist movements in the Nordic countries, the status of Nordic state feminism and the transnational relations between feminist communities.

The ambition of the project was to gain knowledge about the central challenges faced by feminist movements and about how best to deal with these challenges. Special attention was given to the intersection between gender and other grounds for discrimination and to feminist initiatives within public institutions. The network organized a series of workshops and gathered researchers and other stakeholders. The results were presented online and in various scholarly and popular-scientific publications.

WIFT Nordic Network was established during Nordisk Panorama in Malmö, September 2014. The network aims to increase gender equality in Nordic film and television. WIFT Nordic Network wants to empower women to reach their goals, raise awareness of what the gender representation looks like in Nordic film and TV production and change systematic structures that are hindering gender equality. During 2015-2016, WIFT Nordic and collaborators will plan and prepare a seminar, lecture or training initiative on gender equality to be held during a Nordic film festival.

WIFT (Women in Film and Television) is originally an American organization founded in the 1970s as a protest against the male domination in the film industry. Today the organization is present in around forty countries. WIFT Finland, WIFT Sweden, WIFT Norway and WIFT Denmark and WIFT Iceland have 700 members altogether.

With the rise of social media and the spread of new technology, violence against women online has increased in recent years. It now includes harassment, persecution, blackmail / threats, identity theft, access to or dissemination of private data, child pornography, sexual abuse or rape, and uploading photos and videos without consent.

This project aimed to document how online violence against women is expressed in Iceland, Denmark and Norway. This was done through in-depth interviews with people affected by online violence and revenge porn.

A special focus was also placed on gathering experience of reporting offenders and getting legal redress. What opportunities and approaches exist? To place the issue in a global context, the final report was written in English and published online. Summaries are available in Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian. The goal is to contribute to gender equality policy discussions, nationally and locally, about online violence.

How can intimate partner violence among young couples be prevented in the Nordic countries? The answer to this question was discussed in April 2016 in Oslo at the first-ever Nordic expert conference on the topic. The conference attracted representatives from across the Nordic region, and the issues discussed also included the connections between young men’s violence, masculine ideals and gender roles. The event was arranged by Reform – Resource Centre for Men in Norway together with partner organisations in Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

The aim with the conference was to develop shared recommendations and guidelines for the future Nordic cooperation, with a particular focus on how intimate partner violence among young couples affects both the victim and the perpetrator. The intention was to make these recommendations useful and available to organisations and authorities. The recommendations were compiled in 2016 and the project ended during the autumn the same year.

The Swedish Women’s Lobby launched its Ad Watch campaign in 2013 as an initiative against sexist advertising. The objective of the campaign is to work against gender-discriminatory advertising practices by having the public act as a ‘watch dog’ and submit examples of sexist advertisements they come across in daily life.

The aim of the project was to introduce the campaign in the other Nordic countries, beginning with Norway and Denmark. The project also included a review of the Nordic laws against sexist advertising, and suggestions for improvements of regulations and implementations were provided to Nordic ministers.

The project participated in Talk Town in Copenhagen in spring 2016. The agenda also included a number of activities for the advertising industry and the public intended to promote knowledge about sexist advertising. A report, “Sexist advertisement in the Nordic countries – An evaluation of regulations and implementation”, was presented in September 2016.

The aim of the project was to establish a Nordic network of anti-racist feminists and create a platform for collaboration and the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experiences.

During the project, four meetings were held between 2015-2017 in Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm and in Iinari, Sápmi. During these meetings, racialized feministis from Finland, Sweden, Åland, Brussels, Denmark and Sápmi have participated.

In these lectures and workshops the situations in each country, the key struggles and tools that were useful were discussed.

The issue of gender equality in schools and preschools has received a lot of attention in recent years, especially in the Nordic countries. One reason for this is that the national gender equality and discrimination laws have been expanded to cover also the school systems.

The legislative changes make it necessary to develop the equality and diversity work performed in the school environment, which in turn requires carefully planned staff training for educational professionals and other school personnel.

This project aimed to provide such training by developing a tool for e-learning. The training was provided via an online platform utilising a participatory approach, and was based on the results of a previous project titled Nordic Gender Equality Certification in Education, which identified and explored successful gender equality practices in the education sector.

The Nordic countries are often held as European front-runners in the area of gender equality. At the same time, gender equality policy is becoming more and more internationalised. The legislation in the Nordic countries is increasingly affected by European and international regulations, such as the Beijing Platform and the Amsterdam Treaty. At the European level, national policy is influenced by EU laws and decisions. This project explored to what extent the Nordic countries have served as exporters of gender equality policy since the 1990s, as well as how much they have had to adapt to international decisions in the same period.

During 2015 and 2016, networking meetings were held and the project participated in a seminar on EU gender equality policy.

The issues were discussed during a Nordic conference on 20-21 June 2017 in Oslo.

The network Nordic Women Against Violence (NKMV) has arranged a number of yearly conferences aimed to strengthen the cooperation between Nordic women’s centres and organisations combating violence against women and children in the Nordic countries. In 2014, the conference was funded by the Nordic Gender Equality Fund and hosted by the Danish National Organisation of Women’s Shelters (LOKK). It consisted of various workshops and other events, with an overarching aim of facilitating effective sharing of experience and knowledge.

The conference was held in October 2014 and helped increase networking among practitioners in the Nordic countries. It also yielded knowledge about new methods and opportunities for sharing of experiences in the work against violence.