Forschungsprojekte

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Catching up Societies in Transition: Female Highly-Skilled Migration and Youth Drain from South East Europe to Austria in the Context of EU Enlargement

Start Date: 1st July 2005
Project duration: 11 Months

Summary:
The originality of this project is in bridging the two subject areas: gender studies in particular  the theme of women in science and migration studies in particular the theme of academic migration/brain drain issues building upon the cases of Bulgaria, Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina (and Croatia) as sending countries and Austria (and Germany) as receiving country. Our target group is the highly qualified academic women in ‘hard sciences’ (e.g. physics) and in engineering with a special concern for young academic women in these fields. The main objective of the project is to build a larger Consortium and to design a collaborative research project for further joint submission to the EU FP6/FP7 under Austrian or German co-ordination.

The project will be implemented through several activities as follows.
- Writing National Context Papers/Country Reports (Bulgaria, Austria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (and Croatia);
- Building an enlarged Consortium with new partners from SEE (Serbia and Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia and Albania) and Germany;
- Holding a 2-days Meeting in Sofia;
- Drafting a joint proposal for further submission to the EU FP under Austrian or German co-ordination.

Project Website:
The findings of the project will be uploaded on the website of the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Coordinator:
Associate professor Dr. Nikolina Sretenova, Bulgarian ENWISE Expert, Institute for Philosophical Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences E-mails: sretenova@hotmail.com; ninasretenova@yahoo.com; nikolina@bas.bg Phone: + (359 2) 868 62 43

Project Partners:
1. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Institute for Philosophical Research, Institute of Economics,     Institute of Sociology, Sofia;
2. Center for Gender Equality at the University of Vienna, Austria;
3. The National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics – Magurele- Bucharest,             Romania;
4. ACIPS (Alumni Association of Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies), Sarajevo,     Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gendered Migration, Sex Work and Exploitation: Trafficking in Women and Prostitution Start Date: August 1, 2005; Project duration: 9 months

Summary:
As trafficking is a major problem of the region, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia-Montenegro are both target countries but also transit countries and countries of origin of trafficked women and women in prostitution. There have been important EU policy activities in the field (EU directives), but this is contrasted with little systematic academic research in the field of trafficking and prostitution and on how these two issues are connected.
The aim of this project is to establish a network of both experienced scholars and young researchers in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia-Montenegro, to expand and deepen previous research results, and to animate scientific exchange and dissemination as well as public debate on the issues of trafficking and prostitution. This will be achieved by organising three workshops. The workshops will be held in three partner organisation's countries (in, Zagreb (Nov. 19th-20th, 2005), Ljubljana March, 3rd-4th, 2006, and Vienna, May 12th-13th, 2006) in order to gain more insights also from a regional perspective.
The workshops will address the particular question of appropriate research perspectives and methodologies and will develop a research design for further systematic research in the fields of female migration, trafficking in women and prostitution in the region. Interdisciplinarity of the team members will be an asset in all of the planned activities. The projects plans a publication as well as a further research agenda with respect to the common research framework.
Previous research findings of the research team will be contextualized in the fields of both non-EU member states' policies against trafficking in women and in the field of the respective EU policy; policy provisions related to prostitution will also be examined. The studies will contribute to the analysis of differences and similarities in policies on prostitution and trafficking in the four countries with a different status as to EU-membership: Austria (member since 1995), Slovenia (member since 2004) Croatia (candidate country) and Serbia-Montenegro (not-yet candidate country).

Coordinator: Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna/Austria Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Birgit Sauer, Mag. Karin Tertinegg

Project Partners:
1. Univerza Na Primorskem, Znanstveno-Raziskovalno Sredisce Koper/Slovenia (University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre of Koper) Prof. Dr. Simona Zavratnik Zimic
2. Mirovni Institut/Peace Institute, Ljubljana/Slovenia Dr. Vlasta Jalusic, Mag. Majda Hrzenjak, Mag. Mojca Pajnik
3. Anti Trafficking Center, Belgrade/Serbia-Montenegro Dr. Sandra Ljubinkovic, Mag. Ana Kralj
4. University of Vienna, Department of Economics, Vienna/Austria PD Dr. Jürgen Nautz
5. Institut za migracije i narodnosti (Institute for migrations and ethnic studies), Zagreb/Croatia Dr. Silva Meznaric, Mag. Simona Kuti

    Das Projekt wird finanziert durch "Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office" www.aso.zsi.at.

Policy Frames and Implementation Problems: the Case of Gender Mainstreaming; Österreichische Projektleiterin; Gesamt-Projektleitung: Prof. Mieke Verloo, University of Neijmegen Laufzeit: Januar 2003-Dezember 2005. http://www.iwm.at/mageeq/ Since Beijing 1995, Gender Mainstreaming has heralded the beginning of a renewed effort to address what is seen as one of the roots of gender inequality: the genderedness of systems, procedures and organizations. In the definition of the Council of Europe, Gender Mainstreaming is the (re-)organisation, improvement, development and evaluation of policy processes, so that a gender equality perspective is incorporated in all policies at all levels and at all stages, by the actors normally involved in policy-making. Although all member states, and some candidate states of the European Union have started to implement gender mainstreaming, this new strategy is still very much "under construction" and as such open to multiple understandings. Against this backdrop, Gender Mainstreaming has been chosen as the research case for a multi-disciplinary, international comparative study on policy framing: MAGEEQ. MAGEEQ is a three-year research project funded within the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme that started as of January 2003. Next to a comparative study on the framing of gender inequality as a policy problem in Austria, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, the project will result in a conceptual framework on various dimensions of gender equality policy frames, a method for the assessment of inconsistencies in gender equality policy frames and in a set of debates at national and international level. The MAGEEQ research consortium, involving six country teams, is coordinated scientifically and administratively by the Institute for Human Sciences / Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, Austria [www.iwm.at]. For more information please contact Anita de Jonge, dejonge@iwm.at

The Research Network on Gender Politics and the State; Österreichische Projektleiterin; Gesamt-Projektleitung: Dorothy McBride Stetson, Amy Mazur; Laufzeit: seit 1995. www.rngs.org