BRIDGES' PROGRESS

September 8th, we held an internal training workshop for the entire BRIDGES team, organized and facilitated by the Sindillar colleagues. The workshop, entitled “Constructing activist knowledge”, was dedicated to the methodologies of collective and collaborative work, following the experience of Sindillar facing intersectional oppressions. Starting from two practical exercises where we questioned ourselves about our […]

During the month of October, it is planned to finalize the BRIDGES Toolkit, which provides anti-racist and feminist tools and strategies for addressing and contribute to dismantling  structures of exclusion in Higher Education curricula. It will be useful for any instructor, in any field, at any EU higher education institution. It is also intended for […]

During these last three months, from April to June, we have been working on the development of the Tool Kit. It is already taking shape and we take the opportunity to share some progress with you: each PAR (Participatory Action Research) group proposed a series of concepts that articulate around them their short definitions, extended […]

A few weeks before the Transnational Project Meeting in Giessen (April- June), the host team of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen made a selection of readings on decolonial feminism, specially dedicated to the educational and knowledge field, in order to be read and prepare the debates that would later take place. We share now this list of […]

From May 7th to 9th 2020, the full BRIDGES team gathered virtually hosted by Giessen University to celebrate our Transnational Project Meeting and to advance and review the contents of the Tool Kit in light of decolonial feminist theories. Wayne Young on ′′ decolonisation is not a metaphor ′′ was at the centre of the debate […]

Along these months, every PAR Group has been thinking about and discussing along two or three fundamental concepts that will later articulate and compose the Toolkit. In this way, every PAR group has been meeting up locally, every 3-4 weeks, to debate and work around their selected concepts in order to collect and identify critical […]

During these two days, we built a common methodological framework based on Participatory Action Research and Narrative Productions, through which the Intellectual Outputs of the project will be produced. As we understand PAR, it is a methodology sustained by the principles of participation, problematization, empowerment, and reflexivity. Each PAR Group (composed of UAB and Sindillar […]