Centers of Gender Excellence

The information below is a qoute from the press release 2006-12-05 from the Swedish research council:

"The Universities of Uppsala, Umeå and Linköping were the winners of the call for proposals for “Centers of Gender Excellence". The international panel of judges was impressed by Swedish research. The most important criterion was the groups´ potential to become leaders in the international field.

New thinking and tangible plans on how to become leaders in the international field were the most important selection criteria when an international panel of judges chose Centers of Excellence within gender research for the first time. One of the most important objectives of the call for proposals is to increase internationalisation of Swedish gender research. The international panel of judges was impressed by the quality of the applications and unanimous on the environments that should be financed.

The three chosen environments are:

• Nature/Culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters,
Margaretha Fahlgren, Uppsala Centre for Gender Research

• Challenging gender - a research programme at Umeå advanced gender studies, Britta Lundgren, Umeå University

• Gendering EXcellence - GEXcel: towards a European Centre of Excellence in transnational and transdisciplinary studies of changing gender relations, intersectionalities and embodiment, Nina Lykke, Linköping University in cooperation with Örebro University"