Andresare
Operation and monitoring
Through a scholarship created by Eusko Ikaskuntza, there is presently a person available to work on the permanent updating of The Project material and the coordination of the diverse sections of the website. This person is in charge of gathering new material that may appear, getting in touch with their authors and establishing bases for their publication on the website. This person will also receive suggestions, material for the different sections, and will collaborate with a monitoring commission to gradually introduce the modifications they esteem necessary on the website. The current members of this commission are:
Arantza Cuesta representing Euskomedia
Teresa del Valle representing the executive committee of Eusko Ikaskuntza
José Javier Fernandez, member of Eusko Ikaskuntza
Jone M. Hernández, member of Eusko Ikaskuntza
Beatriz Akizu, activity manager for Eusko Ikaskuntza
As we have mentioned, we believe that this project can be a useful investigation tool as well as serving as a support, for example, to the different postgraduate programmes that may have relation to the project thematic and, on a more general level, to future grades. We are, furthermore, convinced that it will contribute to familiarise people, inside and outside of our context, with this investigation that has been developing for over two decades, based on diverse topics from here and other places among which there exists a clear conversion.
We likewise have to insist that the person in charge of managing the contents of ANDRESARE, and the members of the monitoring commission, are necessarily interested in receiving all types of contributions, suggestions, comments on the functioning of the website and its different sections. Owing to this, we will not cease to encourage any person that may be working within these topics or fields, connected to the subject of gender, women or feminism, to contact ANDRESARE (andresare@eusko-ikaskuntza.org) to discuss the possibility of promoting their work (articles, texts or other types of materials) from this new platform. On this same issue, we would like to remind everyone of the possibility of using ANDRESARE as a platform to promote publications, give news on investigations being carried out, and communicate events that will help in the ample promotion of innovative and multi-discipline information.
Finally, we would like to emphasise the international nature of the aims and contents of ANDRESARE, as these respond directly to the accomplishment of the objectives defined in the Regulation of the European Institute for Gender Equality, a body which was created by the European Parliament on the 20th of December, 2006. In article 3 of the said Regulation, tasks 1 a) and e), where it states that "To meet the objectives set in Article 2, the Institute shall:
a) collect, analyse and disseminate relevant objective, comparable and reliable information as regards gender equality, including results from research and best practice communicated to it by Member States, Community institutions, research centres, national equality bodies, non-governmental organisations, social partners, relevant third countries and international organisations, and suggest areas for further research.
e) set up and coordinate a European Network on Gender Equality, involving the centres, bodies, organisations and experts dealing with gender equality and gender mainstreaming in order to support and encourage research, optimise the use of available resources and foster the exchange and dissemination of information. "
The power of a network is in its specific capacity and in its capacity to grow, and ANDRESARE arises to increase the capital.
Teresa del Valle
Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology
Jone Miren Hernández
Professor of Social Anthropology
University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
