The ProGender digital hub (2021-23), financed by the EEA Liechtenstein-Iceland-Norway funds, promoted tri-lateral online activities with a focus on gender perspectives on the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath.

The activities included guest lectures by prominent international experts, seminars, workshops and inter-sectorial policy discussion panels. ​​​The project partners were:

• The Centre for Gender Studies at Panteion University, Athens, Greece
• The RIKK- Institute for Gender, Equality and Difference at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
• The Center for Gender Research and the Gender, Science & Technology Research Group at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

The Centre of Gender Studies at Panteion University also collaborated with the  Research and Education Collective reCollective and the Social Cooperative Enterprise KOINSEP STIN PRIZA.

The thematic focus of ProGender was five-fold. Please follow the direct links to access video and slides for some of the project contributions by the Center for Gender Research and the Gender, Science & Technology Research Group at KULT (NTNU).

1. Gender, care & labour
   • Working and caring from home (remote work, health, work-life balance, domestic and care labour distribution across genders)
   • Labour precarity
   • Post-covid labour markets and societies (feminized employment sectors, future of remote work)

2. Gender-based violence
    
3. Women & gender in science
   • Women scientists during the pandemic (guest lecture)
   • Gendered structures, practices and representations in science & in the knowledge societies (3-day seminar)
   • The impact of COVID-19 on women scientists (policy discussion panel)
   • The gendered “ideal academic” under COVID-19 (guest lecture)
      
4. Gender & communities
   • Migration and motherhood: the experiences of Southern European mothers in Norway (guest lecture)
   • Migration and gender during the pandemic (policy discussion panel)
   • Immigration to Norway: History, gender and the present (guest lecture)
     
5. Women in governance

Project duration: 2021-2023

Financing source: EEA Liechtenstein-Iceland-Norway grants.​​​