The Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity – Innovation Training Network (WEGO-ITN) is funded by Horizon 2020

WEGO-ITN is a shared research and training agenda that aims to educate the next generation of interdisciplinary social environmental scientists on feminist political ecology in Europe.

As the first international feminist political ecology research network of its kind, WEGO-ITN aspires to tackle socio-ecological challenges linked to policy agendas. This innovative and path-breaking project will help local communities to build resilient, equitable and sustainable futures. The goal of WEGO-ITN is to provide research that will demonstrate to policy makers how communities actively sustain and care for their environment and community well-being. Ultimately, WEGO will collectively provide important guides to strategies of resilience and sustainability that are required for meeting the SDGs.

With funding by the European Union the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska – Curie, WEGO-ITN is made up of 18 institutions, including ICTA-UAB, where the BCNUEJ lab is based. It will host 15 Ph.D researchers creating the first European ITN on Feminist Political Ecology (FPE).

WEGO-ITN is made up of scholar-activists working on feminist political ecology from ten institutions in five European Union countries: Germany, Italy, Spain, 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.

BCNUEJ/ICTA-UAB members: Panagiota Kotsila, Ilenia Iengo and Isabelle Anguelovski