Osservatorio di genere - Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea

National Network
Italy
Address

Via Verdi, 10 – 62100 Macerata Italy
Macerata
Italy

Telephone
+390733237107
Fax
+390733237107
E-Mail
csgeneremc@gmail.com
Mobile Phone
+393473009285
Mobile Phone (other)
+393807214161
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1949
Fields of Activity
  1. Gender
General Information
The Istituto Storico della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea "Mario Morbiducci", established in 1949 after the Liberation, has 9 employed people. In 2009, the Institute was provided itself with a Gender Observatory. Annalisa Cegna, Claudia Santoni, Natascia Mattucci and Loredana Guerrieri have a share in the Gender Observatory. This Observatory has the aim to promote a gender culture beginning from local territories using research, training and consultancy interventions. The aims of the Observatory are: the discovery of the women history and memoirs; the promotion of scientific and cultural enterprises (conferences, workshops) about gender subjects; the periodic publications of historical-political works about similarity of character themes with Gender Studies. Gender Observatory promotes European, national and local projects to develop at local level the European social policies, in particular the promotion of equal opportunity policies and anti-discrimination policies.
Mission and Objectives

The Association pursues the European social policies and in particular the equal opportunities policies between men and women and anti-discrimination policies in order to prevent social exclusion of new weak; develop initiatives of research, study, training, information and dissemination, building networks in accordance with the guidelines of the European Union in collaboration with institutional partners and private social organizations at local level; promotes initiatives in the field of national and international cooperation to aid developing countries or organizations in those countries.

Main Projects / Activities

The Observatory was born as a branch of ISREC (the Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age) and therefore follows the draw direction of the this institute. Actually, it intends to organize training courses for history teachers as a training agency authorized by the Ministry of Education, history workshops for students and pupils of schools of all ranks and to lead historical researches activities and the relevant publications and presentations. It indeed proposes itself as a point of reference for corporations, associations, private organizations, scholars and researches involving and interesting in increasing the value of gender differences and in promoting the Equal opportunities through the implementation of projects in harmony with the European concept of gender mainstreaming
Access to the knowledge society through the use of new information and communication technologies as a means of equal access to training and information in the knowledge society
Education
Consultancy
The Gender Observatory promotes the development of transnational networks in order to establish mechanisms for a major participation of the regional and local communities to the European decision making.

Contact (1) Full Name
Natascia Mattucci
Head of the organisation
Annalisa Cegna
Contact (2) Full Name
Loredana Guerrieri