The Dissemination Seminar which will take place at the European Commission Building Madou on April 22nd is designed to bring together policy makers, politicians, NGOs, and researchers to discuss central questions of current European policy-making, such as:

•    What are the challenges faced by women representatives in political life?
•    How do the categories of ethnicity and gender intersect in work-life?
•    How has intimate life been transformed for those living outside of conventional families?
•    What does citizenship mean for women from specific ethnic backgrounds?

Hilda Rømer Christensen, FEMCIT WP 7 researcher,  met with end users in Copenhagen, January 11th 2010, with an NGO group and the Danish minister for Equality, and January 25th 2010 with a range of end users from institutions and  equality units.

The goal of the meetings was twofold: To present the scope and preliminary outcomes of  FEMCIT and to discuss the applications and implications of gender-mainstreaming in advancing gender equality 

What kind of gender notions are implicated in Gender Mainstreaming?  And how is gender mainstreaming defined: as a concept, methodology, strategy etc?
Can gender mainstreaming be made more inclusive and contain other categories than gender? What are the gains and losses in the idea of equality mainstreaming versus gender mainstreaming?

How do the NGOs/Women’s movements and other agents in Danish and European Equality politics assess gender mainstreaming?