The European Commission has awarded ~2.5M € funding to a new Horizon Europe project in which Koç University Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) is a partner. “Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy in Europe” (FIERCE), ranked first on the shortlist, aims to help understand feminist and anti-feminist movements, actions and discourses and their impact on the institutional arena and political outcomes.

The project is carried out in an international consortium including Vilabs (Greece), Aalborg University (Denmark), Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia), Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis (Greece), Smart Venice (Italy), Alternatives European Association (France), Mirovni inštitut (Slovenia), University of Gdańsk (Poland) and Koç University.
The project team at Koç University consists of Prof. Bertil Emrah Oder (PI), Assoc. Prof. Özlem Altan-Olcay (PI), Asst. Prof. Güneş Ertan and Asst. Prof. Aslı E. Mert.

More information about the Project can be found here.