Osservatorio di Genere

Since 2011, year of its foundation, OdG has carried out several projects on gender and equality issues, focusing on producing high quality outputs with scientific relevance (conferences, studies, scientific publications) and on working in a cross-sectorial way in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, such as local governments, civil society organizations and thematic networks. We see gender as a cross-cutting issue to be addressed in every program. Since 2015 OdG is a member of the “Teaching the Difference” network. Since 2016 OdG collaborates with the “Female Toponymy” association and, from 2017, thanks to an agreement, OdG is its territorial representative for the Province of Macerata. OdG is committed to: - Promote research, training, education and teaching activities to fully investigate the topic of the differences (cultural, social, gender). - Develop and implement training activities to support the active citizenship and the access of women to work and education. - Enhance female empowerment in the contemporary world, against all forms of discrimination at different generational ages. - Raise awareness especially among young people to promote actions to fight gender-based violence and gender stereotypes, networking with other organizations and associations for better representation of women & girls. - Encourage involvement and participation of youngsters to achieve gender equality for developing democratic societies.