Teaching Gender Equality and Diversity in Norway and Japan (UTFORSK; 2021-2025) is a four-year teaching and research collaboration between theCenter for Gender Research(CGR) at theDepartment of Interdisciplinary Studies of Cultureat NTNU (Trondheim, Norway) and Ochanomizu University (Tokyo, Japan) in the fields of gender equality and diversity.

UTFORSK’s primary purpose is to develop new pedagogical strategies to strengthen the quality of gender studies education at both the Center for Gender Research at NTNU and theResearch Organization for the Promotion of Global Women’s Leadership at Ochanomizu University(Japan). The project builds on a pre-existing strategic collaboration between the two institutions that started in 2017. The collaborative relationship has been strengthened throughthe INTPART project named NJ_BREGED, funded by the Research Council of Norway 2019-2022).

Through international exchange and collaboration, joint curricular activities, the promotion of young researchers’ work and the development of disciplinary-specific teaching practices, the project will provide students and staff with a quality-enhanced and stimulating international learning environment at all levels. In doing so, UTFORSK seeks to establish a clear focus on the role of transformative teaching and learning in the education of students and young researchers.

UTFORSK is funded by theNorwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (HK-dir).

Project members are here.

Please visitthe UTFORSK Project webpage on the NTNU website, too.