§          To interrogate the commonalities – but also the respective specificities – concerning the issues of methodologies/epistemologies and conceptual apparatuses both in the West as in Southeastern Europe: establishing a common European intellectual floor for theoretical and academic on-going exchange. 

§          To open a wide regional debate on the theoretical/intellectual legacy of the SEE feminist scholarship developed in the region in the course of the last few decades. Namely, to look into the possibility of discerning the authenticities of the SEE feminist discourse and its integration into the wider European intellectual and academic legacy. 

§          To examine the potentials of the feminist politico-theoretical thinking as one offering specific – and, we will argue: not yet sufficiently explored - possibilities of conceptualization of a variety of political and indentitary phenomena, besides those concerning gender.

§          To open a forum for critical exploration from the perspective of gender scholars of the concepts and applied policies of university education, which are the dominant in the EU, and are already shaping the future European institutionalized higher education and academia.

§          To explore and critically question the processes and tendencies of institutionalization of gender/women’s studies in EU and “put them in a dialogue” with those taking place in Southeastern Europe (the Western Balkans).

§          To raise the question of gender mainstreaming according to the Bologna Declaration and interrogate the strategies for harmonization of the efforts taking place both in the  (South)East and the West of Europe.

§          To introduce the (feminist) methodology of the standpoint vis-a-vis that of continuous reinvestigations of the Balkan identity as the Other regarding the European West, developing an integrative theoretical and academic debate on the European identity in its multiplicity, and of the Southeast European as one of its many facets.

§          To promote an active approach of what is still considered “margins of Europe”, constructively investing its own specificity and authenticity, into the actual political and academic pursuit of an European identity – proposing that the “New Europe” should be an equal partner instead of a passive “beneficiary” in these processes.