Article from “La Nuova Ferrara”

26th Giugno 2025

The European project WE frame: collective views for equality is co-funded with a budget of €260,920.00 under the CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM-EUINTEGRATION programme, which aims to promote human rights principles and European values.

The project, which passed a rigorous selection process, focuses on the principle of gender equality and aims to explore its content – and also its critical issues – from an intergenerational and intersectional perspective. The main objective is to encourage dialogue between people of different generations, activists and scholars, in order to explore some of the issues that animate the contemporary feminist debate on women’s rights, identity and gender, raising awareness of the characteristics, content and challenges of the principle of equality.

This main objective is divided into a number of specific objectives, aimed at: encouraging intergenerational dialogue on the history of feminism and gender perspective and on the definition of the current content of equality; promoting intersectional debate in order to develop a concept of equality that focuses on valuing differences and removing inequalities; favouring a bottom-up approach in the survey, in order to make EU citizens the protagonists of the discussion; valuing, in identifying the content of equality, the experience of historical feminism and the recovery of memory, as a memory shared by younger generations as well.

The objectives can be achieved thanks to the composition of the partnership and its ability to involve feminist associations, movements and collectives representing different generations, through a pluralistic and interdisciplinary methodology and the organisation of public events that will begin in autumn 2025 (seminars, workshops, film festivals, exhibitions, etc.).

The consortium involved in the project consists of Officine Europa APS (Ferrara, Italy), the University of Ferrara – Department of Law (Ferrara, Italy), CDS – Centro Ricerche Documentazione Studi (Ferrara, Italy) and Traces&Dreams AB (Sweden). The diversity of the parties involved represents an added value for the partnership, as it will consolidate the synergy between the academic world and civil society, promoting both a territorial and cultural impact, in line with the aims of the so-called Third Mission of the University.