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 at the Talk Town festival in Copenhagen in May 2023, an annual festival on gender, equality and feminism. The conference will be open to activists from all Nordic countries, but will be aimed at activists from the West Nordic Region and guests from those countries will be especially invited.

The goal is to support existing NGO’s and groups of activists already operating in Greenland and the Faroe Islands and to spur the creation of new groups at the grassroots level. During the conference, a website on gender equality and feminism in the West Nordic region will be published, creating a sustainable platform for future cooperation and material sharing.

The project aimed to develop a website, an online platform, representing the Nordic Women Mediators (NWM) and its members. The website was to enhance the visibility of the networks’ mission, and the members themselves who consist of over hundred women, professionals across the five Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

All the members brought to the network years of relevant expertise to peace processes through various of professions within international diplomacy, civil society and/or academia. They all share their commitment to sustaining peace through inclusive and meaningful participation of women in all phases of peace processes. 

All five operational partners contributed to the development of the website by collecting biographies of all their members, over 100 women in total. The website was published at the NWM annual meeting in Finland in November 2022.

To mark the 15th anniversary of the journal Fett, the project aimed to arrange a panel discussion during 2019 between the editors of sister journals in the various Nordic nations about the situation of Nordic feminism. The project highlighted how Nordic feminists can influence the political agenda through feminist critique, investigate the causes behind the emergence of far-right attitudes that are hostile towards women, and discuss how Nordic feminists can work together to combat these attitudes. The idea was that the panel discussion should put these themes on the agenda in a Nordic context, and should contribute towards sharing experiences, building networks, securing commitment and increasing knowledge across national borders.

Transforming Identities brought together scholars, activists, artists and authors to discuss current challenges to democratic participation and shifting understandings of diversity, minorities, and solidarity. At a time when minorities, broadly defined, are increasingly positioned as threats to majority rights and democratic values, the project explore how and to what ends minority mobilization challenges Nordic social and political landscapes – what’s at stake, why, and for whom?

In three workshops (in Stavanger, Gothenburg and Helsinki) the project explored the impulses for new understandings of equality and rights, solidarity, marginalization and democracy, in the context of the rise of rightwing activism, growing nationalism, local and global insecurities. The project aimed to facilitate collaborations and thinking across disciplines and platforms, expand understandings of how democratic participation transforms the social and the political, and to establish lasting avenues for debate, insights, and new research.

The 2019 NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research – conference on critical feminist cross-disciplinary research and activities relying on contemporary and/or historical perspectives was held at the University of Iceland, 22-24 May.

It focused on the theme of material and symbolic borders in a period of nationalist revival. What explains the return to territoriality? What kind of political, cultural, and social boundaries are being constructed or reproduced? How are border regimes in the present and the past shaping and gendering relations? How are new or redefined boundaries affecting work for social justice and equality as well as intersectional, gender, queer and feminist research? And how can feminist resistance be organized against paternalistic modes that reinstate and reinforce relations of inequality?

The conference was co-hosted by RIKK – Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference, the EDDA Research Center and the United Nations University Gender Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland.

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.

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.

Inspired by the power handbook that Interfem had published in Sweden, this project wanted to promote the publication of a similar book in Finland.

During the course of the project, two Nordic network meetings were held with participants from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Denmark and Norway. The power handbook was written by women subject to racialisation, and presented specific experiences from the different countries.

The activities led to the formation of a new network for Nordic anti-racist feminists. The foundation for a leadership programme for young anti-racist feminists has been laid and material and tools for training of young anti-racist feminists have been developed.