List of participants

WINE's Co-ordinator: Annamaria Tagliavini
WINE's Co-coordinator: Maria Gronroos
WINE'S Assistant: Marta Garro

Chris Zwaenepoel (Rosa)
Djurdja Knezevic (Zenska)
Tilly Vriend (IIAV)

Action Points

1) Next steps for WINE dissemination

• To write a new document with clarifications about the status of WINE/ATHENA co-operation (Working Document4).
• To send it out together with the letter of recruitment for new partners.
• To use the addresses in the Mapping the World database to advertise WINE.
• 26/27 November, 2002: to have the material ready, so that Tilly will bring it to the next meeting of documentation centers in Eastern Europe, which will be held in Budapest.

• DGX application;
• Grundtvig Project;
• We need to help non-European countries matching western ones to apply for Europeanmoney. It would be a first step to prepare a list of “good-willing” organizations/institutions available for this kind of matching.
• Maybe we should think of the structure of WINE as a network of networks, not only as a network of individual partners.

In the near future, we have to work out a specific legal structure for WINE as an independent network: maybe a consortium of partners with its own rules, duties and responsibilities also concerning the ownership of jointly developed products. As an independent network WINE will be able to apply for funds from other areas of the European Commission than the Socrates program (which is where ATHENA is located), for instance from DGX.

• We had a fruitful meeting with the Athena ICT’s working group, co-ordinated by Aino-Maija Hiltunen and Erna Kotkamp.
  
• We discussed the possibility of working together for some of the activities concerning the ICT’s within Athena, focussing on exchanging information and linking some of the training activities which are very similar in the two groups.
  
• We discussed a feasible program to be carried on throughout the 3 years of the cooperation with ATHENA:
  - The project of a European Women Virtual Library, based on common engines and core standards;
  - The building of an Athena portal (the ICT's group will work on it) with a link to a WINE portal;
  
• Within WINE, the first step should be that of linking together all the libraries/information centers; but can be a good idea to start working on different levels:
  - Small/regional libraries, on the one hand;
  - Bigger ones or networks, on the other;
  
• The building of a database of European feminist experts in the field of documentation centers. This project would link both to the ICT's and to the policy makers fields.

• It has been stressed the importance of the inventory (through the questionnaire) of the status quo of each partners, to map the specificity of different regions.
  
• As far as the training of experts in the field, it has been suggested that intensive courses of few days are not a good enough option: they are always too short and too packed. The model of mutual internship, a sort international exchanges, for longer periods would be the optimal solution.

• WINE spring meeting;
  
• WINE summer meeting at Lund, to be held just before the starting of the conference, on August 18, 2003;

• To work at a formal presentation of WINE during the plenary;
  
• To think of the possibility of presenting different databases (relevant for women’s studies research) during the plenary;
  
• To ask for a space (something like a poster-room) in which to do the presentation on line of these databases;
  
• To prepare a WINE leaflet: short presentation/mission statement/goals/strategy.