Working Groups

WIDE+ currently has 4 thematic Working Groups (WG):

  • Trade and Gender Working Group. This WG monitors EU trade policy from a feminist perspective, develops public positions and analysis on EU trade and gender issues.
  • Migration and Gender Working Group. This WG is implements projects that promotes migrant feminist movement building throughout Europe, and it engages in collective actions to promote the rights of migrant women and girls.
  • Feminist Movement Building Working Group. This WG reflects on strategic and current challenges and intersections within the Feminist movements and plans actions to promote feminist solidarity across Europe.
  • Feminist Economic Literacy Working Group. This WG aims to develop concrete projects to implement feminist economic literacy training, currently planned for Latin America and Western Balkans.

WIDE+ facilitates the following working groups around projects:

  • We Empower project. WIDE+ is leading this project entitled: “Expanding tools in Addressing Barriers for Migrant Women to participate in Democratic life”, which is a consortium of 7 partners in the coming 2,5 years. This transnational collaboration aims to encourage and empower migrant women to participate in civic and democratic action in Europe. The project commenced in April 2022.
  • FINDHR. WIDE+ is part of an EU funded Horizon consortium to implement a 3-year research and innovation project. It will in collaboration develop methods, algorithms, and training for an intersectional anti-discrimination approach that are contextualized within the technical, legal, and ethical problems of algorithmic hiring, and are applicable to a broad class of applications involving human recommendation.
  • COPGENDERED Project. WIDE+ is leading a consortium of seven organisations of which six are WIDE+ member organisations coupled with the key gender and climate justice organisation for Europe: Gender CC to implement a collaboration entitled: “Gender and Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment” that is financially supported by the EACEA. This project builds up tools, knowledge and methodologies for learners to upskill themselves (in groups, individually or with a teacher) in the relationships between gender inequality and the climate crisis. This includes providing tools for adult education providers. The project starts in January 2023 and will continue for three years.
  • CB4VOL project. CB4VOL’s main objective is to strengthen the capacity of the consortium organisations to develop volunteering work at local level. At the same time, the project organisations will promote the participation of youth in their local communities, to improve awareness and knowledge about gender equality and inclusion. The consortium is made up of 4 organisations: Association Asticude in Nador, Morocco; Young Women’s Christian Association of Jerusalem, Palestine; Women In Development Europe+ (WIDE+) in Brussels, Belgium, and led by Alianza por Solidaridad in Madrid, Spain.