Announcement
AKTEA Conference: Women in Fisheries and Aquaculture: Connecting Communities for Building the Future, Annalong, Northern Ireland, 27 and 28 April 2007
The Second Conference and the Second General Body meeting of AKTEA: European Network of Women’s Organizations in Fisheries and Aquaculture will be held in Northern Ireland in April 2007. Both events are being hosted by the Northern Ireland Women in Fisheries (NIWIF) network, which groups fisherwomen. The conference has been planned in two parts. The first part will focus on action needed vis-à-vis European institutions. The major issues that will be discussed are: the European Fisheries Policy and women’s organizations; the European Fisheries Fund (2007-2013) and women’s organizations; and assigning legal status to collaborative spouses (EU Directive 86/613) by all European Union Member States.
The second part of the conference will discuss the AKTEA network programme for the next two years. The main issues to be discussed are: (i) networking, communication and exchange; (ii) solidarity linkages: how to build and sustain the network at the transnational level; (iii) visibility and strengthening of the role of women and women’s organizations in sustaining local communities through workshops, training programmes, exchange programmes and research; and (iv) promoting safety at sea through activities such as workshops, training programmes, exchange programmes and research.
On Sunday, 29 April, there will be a special workshop to discuss global issues in fisheries, in particular, the impact of global developments on fishing communities worldwide. This workshop will also discuss how to build solidarity linkages between women of fishing communities in the North and South.
For further details on the conference, please contact Katia Frangoudes at Katia.Frangoudes@univ-brest.fr
