List of participants
WINE's Co-ordinator: Annamaria Tagliavini
WINE'S Assistant: Marta Garro
Tilly Vriend (IIAV, Amsterdam)
Anna Cabò (Francesca Bonnemaison Centre, Barcelona)
Beverly Kemp (The Women’s Library, London)
Chris Zwanepoel, Magda Michielsen (RoSa, Brussels)
Inge va de Stighelen (Amazone, Brussels)
Hanna Lehto (Christina Institute, Helsinki)
Mireille Baunens (University of Grenoble)
Patricia Mercader (University of Lyon2)
Action Points
1) WINE and ATHENA II
- How to down size and modify the proposal for activities
(2003-2006), in order to be able to respect the partnership
agreement each partner has to sign within the three year
project of Athena II.
- We made small corrections to the already existing working
plan, deleting some of the activities and focussing on
the most important ones.
- The last version of the WINE/ATHENA proposal will be
available on line.
2) The WINE questionnaire
- We discussed the last version of the WINE questionnaire
(which is on line) and decided few extra corrections,
in order to make it more comprehensible and useful for
the data collection we are planning to do.
- Next step: to send out an email to ask all partners
to fill in the questionnaire, setting a deadline which
everybody should respect (it could be the mid of July).
- Once we collect the data we need, we will have a clearer
idea of what we can expect from our partners, in terms
of cooperation and availability; but most of all what
they need and expect from such a network.
- The final product will be the WINE survey: in October
we should be able to present the first year results.
3) The Barcelona meeting, May 2005
- The next ATHENA II meeting will take place in Barcelona,
in May 2005, at the Francesca Bonnemaison Centre, which
is one of the biggest documentation centres in Europe:
the focus of the meeting will be on libraries, documentation
centres and archives; but also on equal opportunities
and policy making.
Within ATHENA II, working groups 3A (WINE) and 3B (Equal
Opportunities), will be therefore the main supporter in
helping organizing the meeting.
- This should be the perfect opportunity for the two groups
to start working more closely together within Athena;
- As we already planned, it will function as an in between
European meeting before the largest international Know
How conference, which will take place in 2006 (maybe in
Mexico?).
4) European co-operation
projects
- We thoroughly discussed the necessity, both political
and financial, of applying for funding to the EU: WINE
needs to find a way of supporting its goals and projects
autonomously. In this direction we screened the possibilities
of working at two different project proposals during the
next year:
a) The Grundtvig 1 call (1 November, 2004), within the
SOCRATES programme, which promotes adult education and
training;
b) The eContentplus call (2005-2008), which would enable
WINE to attempt the finalization of the old European Women
Digital Library project.
- As for the EWDL project, interesting
ideas came up during our discussion:
a) First of all, the limits of our first proposal (November
2003):
- It was a too ambitious project which couldn’t be realized
starting from our realistic skills and caspacities at
this moment;
- We didn’t succed in meeting our partners’ needs and
interests, in order to match the on going projects each
of us is already working at with new joint activities
which could empower all of us as a network;
- We didn’t take seriously enough some practical obstacles,
such as copyrights and the difficulties related to indexing
systems.
b) In order to start working at a project proposal which
should be both challanging and feasible, we need to:
- First of all we have to conduct a mini-survey among
our partners in order to see who is really interested
in the project; what they would like to do with it; which
criteria they would use to select the on-line material;
which languages should be available within the EWDL; how
to improve and translate further the EWT.
- To structure the EWDL as an open access database, in
order to simplify our work and avoid copyrights problems.
From a WINE portal, we could access: a) to one section
with links to all partners' on-line catalogues; b) to
a database with open access documents (i.e. conference
papers, articles born as electronic documents, already
on line material, etc...) indexed with the EWT (to be
discussed and decided).
- An interesting idea is that of archiving women's web-sites,
working at a sort of archaeology of the future. Here as
well we should start asking our partners whether they
are doing any archiving of their websites; whether they
know of any similar on-going project; if they are interested
in this kind of activity.
- As for the Grundtvig1 project proposal
we should first discuss further:
- the possibilities of organizing a training course for
information and documentation experts with a gender perspective;
- An on-line or a face-to-face course?
- The course should be structured on to levels: on one
hand directed to professionalise women centre specialists;
on the other, focussed on gender mainstreaming public
libraries.
- A preparatory meeting can be organized and would be
financed by the Grundtvig programme. It should take place
at least month before the call deadline.
5) The juridical status of WINE
- We agreed that it's time to constitute an official association/European
NGO. This will, in fact, facilitate WINE to act as the
main juridical person when applying for European funding
and presenting project proposals to the EU.
- To give WINE the juridical status is rather simple if
we choose to sign a “private contract”, which doesn’t
need the presence of a lawyer and it’s totally free of
charge.
- The following countries seem to be interested in signing
the document, thus acting as a sort of WINE core group
of partners, which should work as the main supporter of
the network: Italy, The Netherlands, France, Belgium,
Spain, U.K.
6) The next WINE meeting
If we decide to start with the Grundtvig 1 call, we could
organize a WINE meeting in Bologna in mid September. The
meeting would function as:
- preparatory visit to finalize the project proposal;
- meeting to sign the contract related to the constitution
of WINE as Association;
- in-between meeting before Barcelona.
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