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?

FEMCIT WP6 was recently represented at the international conference Families in Europe today.

The conference was a meeting place between researchers, NGO’s in the field of families, gender equality, lesbian and gay rights, and a variety of policy makers from EC and from different European countries.

Lenita Freidenvall, Drude Dahlerup and Monica Threlfall travelled to Santiago de Chile for the massive International Political Science Association (IPSA) conference, July 12-16 2009.

Drude Dahlerup spoke  on 'The use of different gender quotas in Arab politics' at the iKNOWpolitics conference in Amman, Jordan, October 27-28, 2009.

Lenita Freidenvall was a guest speaker and moderator at a Roundtable on Women’s Participation in Political Parties organized by OSCE-ODIHR (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) in Warsaw, June 23 -24, 2009.

Małgorzata Fuszara was a plenary speaker, organizer and moderator of the session 'Women in Politics' during the Women for Poland, Poland for Women Congress marking twenty years of transformations 1989-2009, in June 20-21, 2009.