The purpose of the UNIgren Equality Days is to give visibility to, and raise awareness about, questions related to diversity, inclusiveness and multiculturalism.
This year, the theme is intersectionnality.
As part of UNIgreen Equality Day, a special video will be released on 14 November 2025, featuring members of Work Package 5.
Online Event
We are organising a webinar on the 13th November 2025, the topic is “Let’s Talk Intersectionnality“, and it will take place from 10:00 to 12:00 (CET).
Onsite Event
University of Almería (Spain)
When: 24 November – 16:00 – 18:30
Activity title: Public policies, embodied care: deferred experiences
Summary: Brief presentation of UNIgreen and its gender equality plan, followed by a discussion of how, in the field of care, public policies are integrated and form a broad matrix of mutual and intersubjective relationships. In this context, three milestones in the relationship between the right to care and a democratic society will be highlighted: 1) the ageing of the population and the challenges it poses, 2) the professionalisation of care, and 3) the genesis of social systems involving various institutions and social agents (families, the market, the community and public policies). In this context, care policies take on a prominent role in the design of participatory governance models. This is reflected both in the Draft Care Bill of February 2025, which proposes a reform of the Dependency and Disability Laws, and in the care roundtables that have worked to devise a care system that integrates the different organisations and social agents involved in its design as a fundamental step towards a more democratic society, involving all its actors in access to care and being cared for.
To this we must add the wide diversity of humanity, which in turn determines the enormous variety in the demand for effective public policies, which nevertheless tend to become entrenched. From an intersectional perspective, this work proposes to question the material reality of public policies as embodied care by exploring diverse experiences of them. Are they sufficient, what needs do they cover or not, how can they be improved, how do they account for intersectionality?
Speakers:
- Magdalena Correa Blázquez, Psychology Department, UAL
- María Teresa Martín Palomo, Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Humanidades, UAL
More information will be available soon.