WEGO-Innovation Training Network (WEGO-ITN)
- How is gender linked to environmental problems and developmental issues?
- How are feminist political ecologists working with local communities around the world?
- How can their activities inform sustainable development policy debates?
What is WEGO-ITN?
This innovative and path breaking project will help local communities to build resilient, equitable and sustainable futures.
- It will tackle socio-ecological challenges linked to policy agendas.
- It will provide research that demonstrates to policy makers how communities actively sustain and care for their environment and community well-being.
Ultimately, WEGO-ITN will collectively provide important guides to strategies of resilience and sustainability that are required for meeting the SDGs.
Funded by the European Union, the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie WEGO network is hosting 15 PhD researchers, creating the first European ITN on Feminist Political Ecology.
Network of scholar-activists
WEGO-ITN is made up of scholar-activists working on feminist political ecology from ten institutions in five European Union countries: Germany, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom; and eight institutions from seven countries for training and secondments: Australia, India, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Uruguay and USA.
WEGO-ITN research themes
- Climate change, economic development and extractivism;
- Commoning community economies and the politics of care;
- Nature/culture, embodiment and technologies.
How can I find out more?
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 764908-WEGO 2018-2021.
