Programme/Bio notes

1. Welcome and Opening - Tatiana Moura – Centre for Social Studies

2. Portugal | “State of Europe and Portuguese’s Fathers”

Linda Miriam – Centre for Social Studies
Linda Cerdeira is a PhD student in Feminist Studies at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra in the scope of the PARENT- Promotion, Awareness Raising and Engagement of men in Nurture Transformations and KINDER – Tackling gender stereotypes in education and early childhood: building a Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Children´s Education. She holds a degree in International Relations with a specialisation in Human Rights. From 2013 to 2019, she was Program Coordinator of Instituto Promundo in Brazil. She is currently Program Coordinator of Promundo -Portugal and international consultant in the Global Grace (Global Gender and Cultures of Equality) and LINEA (Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse) projects. With 15 years of experience in socio-cultural and gender projects in Portugal and Brazil, she has coordinated several research-action projects using gender transformative methodologies with a focus on masculinities, arts and culture and urban violence.

Tatiana Moura – Centre for Social Studies
With a background in International Relations and Sociology and a PhD in Peace Studies, Tatiana Moura works as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where she co-coordinates the Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Group (NHUMEP) since october 2019. Over the last two decades she has coordinated research projects on masculinities, gender equality, youth, violence and non violent trajectories in urban peripheries, particularly in Latin America. Currently she is the PI of two European projects: KINDER: Tackling gender stereotypes in education and early childhood: building a Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Children´s Education; and PARENT: Promotion, Awareness Raising and Engagement of men in Nurture Transformations (https://www.ces.uc.pt/en/investigacao/projetos-de-investigacao/projetos-financiados/parent), both funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Program/DG Justice/EU. She is also the PI of DECODE-M: (De)Coding Masculinities: Towards an enhanced understanding of media\\\'s role in shaping perceptions of masculinities in Portugal (https://decodem.ces.uc.pt/?page_id=9&lang=en_GB), funded by FCT. Tatiana is also the Coordinator of Promundo Portugal and Associate Director of UniPeriferias/Instituto Maria and João Aleixo (a Global Think Tank that conducts research on youth and peripheries in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) since March 2018. Between 2011 and 2019 she was the Executive Director of Instituto Promundo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), an international NGO with offices in Brazil, USA, DRC and Portugal that works nationally and globally in engaging men and boys for gender equality. She is member of the Global and European MenEngage Network, a global alliance made up of dozens of country networks spread across many regions of the world, hundreds of non-governmental organizations, as well as UN partners that work collectively and individually toward advancing gender justice, human rights and social justice. She is the co-founder and co-coordinator of the regional MenEngage Iberia regional Network, that brings together researchers and gender justice activists from Portugal and Spain. Some of her publications include "Between Athens and Sparta. Women, Peace and Armed Conflicts" (2005, Quarteto Editora); in 2007, "Invisible Faces of Armed Violence. A Case Study on Rio de Janeiro" (Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras); in 2010 "Newest Wars. Spaces, Identities and Spirals of Armed Violence" (Almedina), which was awarded with the 7th CES Award for Young Social Scientists; in 2013, "Missed Connections: Representations of Gender, (Armed) Violence and Security in Resolution 1325", RCCS Annual Review, 5, (with Sílvia Roque and Rita Santos); in 2016, "Violence and Small Arms in Portugal", organized with Rita Santos and José Manuel Pureza (Editora Almedina); Moura; Moura, Tatiana; Fernandez, Marta; Page, Victoria (2020), "Power from the peripheries: Arts, cultures of equality and southern perspectives", in Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson & Jimmy Turner (org.), Theorising Cultures of Equality. London, UK: Routledge and "Societal Violece and Masculinities: understanding linkages in and outside of wars". In Untapped Power: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Conflict Resolution and Development, edited by Koppell, Carla. Washington DC, United States: Georgetown University (forthcoming).

Marisa Matias – European Parliament
Marisa Matias is a sociologist and currently a Member of the European Parliament, elected for the first time in 2009, where she is Vice-President of the GUE/NGL Group and a member of the Bureau.

She serves on the Industry, Research and Energy Committees (coordinator), the Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI). She is also a member of the new Committee of Inquiry on the protection of animals during transport (ANIT). He is also a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries, the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean and the Delegation for relations with Palestine.

It is a member of the DEG - Election Support Coordination Group.

Training and Academic Background

She was a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at Coimbra University. Her academic career has been in the area of Sociology from her graduation to her PhD, which she concluded with the thesis: The nature fed up with us? Health, environment and new forms of citizenship. He has published several scientific articles, book chapters and other national and international publications.


3. Italy  | “The role of health professionals in engaging fathers In the First Thousand Days - Why it matters and what we have learned”

Annina Lubbock, gender specialist, PARENT Italy Coordination
Annina Lubbock is a social scientist who after an early career in applied social research in Italy, worked internationally for over 30 years (for the latter part of her career with the United Nations) on gender equality and women’s empowerment. As a retirement project in 2016 she created the Italian network on engaged fatherhood and shared care, Il Giardino dei Padri, and is a member of the coordination team of PARENT-Italy

Angela Giusti, PhD, public health researcher, ISS (Italian National Institute of Health)
Dr Angela Giusti is a senior researcher at the Italian Institute of Health, in several public health domains including maternal and child health in the first Thousand days. Her many qualifications include Midwifery and Public & Community Health Degrees, a MSc in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning and a PHD in Human and Environmental Health. She is member of the PARENT training team, the Technical Advisory Group and has supported project M&E.

Dr Giorgio Tamburlini, MD PhD, CSB (Centre for Child Health, Italy) 
Dr Giorgio Tamburlini is a paediatrician with a PhD in developmental paediatrics. He has been extensively consulting for UN agencies and international NGOs on maternal and child health policies and programs. He has contributed to the development and implementation of the Nurturing care framework and several ECD (Early Child Development/NC (Nurturing Care)/parenting programs in Italy and abroad and is currently advisor to Italy’s Ministry of Labour and Social policies for the development of child welfare policies.


4. Lithuania | “Active fatherhood as a strategy for prevention of domestic violence: the role of social workers”

Vilana Pilinkaite Sotirovic - Centre for Equality Advancement
Dr. Vilana Pilinkaite Sotirovic is the researcher at the Lithuanian Social Research Centre and gender expert in the Centre for Equality Advancement. She has more than fifteen years of experience in doing research of gender+ equality, gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming policies. In PARENT project she was the coordinator of the Lithuanian team, trainer and facilitator of meetings with stakeholders and partners of the project.

Margarita Jankauskaite - Centre for Equality Advancement
Dr. Margarita Jankauskaite has been working as the project manager and gender trainer at the Center for Equality Advancement (CEA) for more than 15 years. She applies diverse interactive and innovative training methods to transform gender stereotypes and biases among different professionals, civil servants, employers and NGOs. In PARENT project Margarita completed a leading role in training activities for social work and educational groups for fathers.

 Vilma Gabrieliute, Head of Discrimination Prevention and Communication Group at the Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson – comments 
Vilma Gabrieliūtė is the head of the Equal opportunities mainstream group at the Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson in Lithuania. Vilma has more than 10 years of experience in the field of gender equality and sexuality education, high expertise in developing methodologies and conducting trainings. In the last two years she has contributed to the project on building up gender -based violence prevention mechanism in schools, challenging prevailing gender norms and encouraging school’s community for change.


5. Austria | “Promote engaged fatherhood through educational groups. Experiences and recommendations from the PARENT fathers’ laboratories“

Mag. Elli Scambor, PARENT Austrian Coordination
Elli Scambor, Mag.a, Sociologist, Managing Director of the Institute for Institute for Masculinity Research and Gender Studies at the Association for Men and Gender Issues in Graz (Austria). She coordinated the first systematic European 31 country study "The Study on the Role of Men in Gender Equality", which was central in the development of the concept of caring masculinity in Europe. She carries out field research on workplace conditions for caring masculinities, early care an the role of men as well as research on gender based violence and violence resilience from an intersectional perspective. She is lecturer at universities in Graz and Board member of the Umbrella Organisation of Men’s Work in Austria (DMÖ).

Ines Pamperl, City of Graz, Managing Director at the Office for Youth and Family Medical Service
Ines Pamperl, Dr. med., Physician and Nutritionist, Head of Health Service (Ärztlicher Dienst), Youth and Family Office (Amt für Jugend und Familie), City of Graz. Health service is integrated into the city’s administrative body (Magistrat). 

She is one oft he cooperative partners of PARENT. She and other Youth and Family Office members attended an online multiplier training program to encourage active paternity.

Mag. Hubert Steger from papainfo.at (Vienna)
Hubert Steger, Mag., Clinical and health psychologist, long-time employee of the Men\\\'s Counseling Service Vienna in the field of general family counseling, father counseling and victim protection. He wrote his final thesis in his studies on the role of the company\\\'s framework conditions for taking paternity leave and is the main author of the guidebook Vaterarbeit - Zeit für dein Kind (Father\\\'s Work - Time for Your Child). He has repeatedly initiated father projects (e.g. workshops to prepare expectant fathers for childbirth) and, together with committed colleagues, founded the association Papainfo - Verein zur Förderung von gleichstellungsorientierter Väterarbeit (Association for the Promotion of Equality-Oriented Father Work) and is a member of the DMÖ - Dachverband für Burschen- Männer- und Väterarbeit (Umbrella Association for Boys, Men and Father Work)


6. Campaigns > Tatiana Moura

7. Debate/Q&A  > Tiago Rolino