Organizer: “Euro-Balkan” Institute: Research Center for Gender Studies, Skopje – Republic of Macedonia

Supported by: Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute-Budapest (Part of the Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching)

In collaboration with: Ohrid Summer University

Course Director: Prof. Katerina Kolozova

Academic Coordinator: Assistant Prof. Jasminka Kuzmanovska

Duration: 3 years

Target Area: Southeastern Europe: Serbia and Montenegro Kosovo, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Turkey (Greece is also eligible but – as a EU member country - without the scholarship provided by HESP)

Format: a) Summer sessions offering short courses that include lectures, seminars, and roundtables

b) follow-on inter-sessions in the form of workshops, on-line exchanges, international forums and other forms of meetings.

Number of Participants: 25

Participants (Eligibility and Recruitment): Young faculty from Southeastern Europe, minimum 3 participants from each of the eligible countries so that small teams can be formed that will work on introducing the knowledge and skills acquired through the Seminar in their home teaching environments. Eligible are young academics involved in teaching and research in the field of the gender/women’s studies or in some other discipline from the realms of social studies and humanities consistently embracing the gender perspective in their work. Namely, applicants holding teaching position at some of the universities in the region that have obtained at least the title of MA, preferably Ph.D. or Ph.D. candidates. Exceptions can be made for doctoral students or applicants that have already obtained their Ph.D. title showing strong commitment to become faculty at some of the universities in the region, with a tenable possibility for this to happen.

Students will be recruited through a public announcement disseminated through the Southeast European Network for Gender Studies, the Athena Network, the Network for Gender and Women’s Studies of the Countries in Transition, and other similar active networks. Also through the alumni network of OSU (in particular the students of the summer school in gender studies 2001 and contemporary philosophy with a strong accent on feminist philosophy in 2002). The call for applications will also be advertised by addressing directly the universities in the region.

The participants will be subjected to a process of selection that will be based on democratic and fare principles of competition, conducted by the course director and in consultation with the resource persons involved in the seminar.