Organization: Dijana Simić
Contributors: Julia Bernegger, Magdalena Collinet, Milena Eberharter (SP IV), Kirstin Eckstein, Gertrude Eigelsreiter-Jashari, Eva Holzinger (SP V), Sophia-Marie Horvath (SDG 15), Regina Hügli, Bettina Knoflach (SP I, II), Elisabeth Kopf, Stefanie Lemke, Claudia Michl (SDG 13), Sandra Nicolics (SDG 6), Anna Nindl, Martina Perzl, Stefanie Preiml (SP IV), Naomi Reinschmidt, Christine Rossegger (SDG 11), Barbara Stadlmayr, Elisabeth Steiner, Charlotte Voigt
UniNEtZ: SDG 5, SDG 6, SDG 11, SDG 13, SDG 15, SP I, SP II, SP IV, SP V
Cooperation partners:Working Group Emancipation and Partnership (AEP), Social Change Rocks!
Date: November 15, 2024 / spring 2025

The UniNEtZ sponsorship for SDG 5 at the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI) at the University of Innsbruck enabled the connection to the local feminist scene in Tyrol, in particular to the Working Group for Emancipation and Partnership (AEP), which - according to the wording of the AEP homepage - has been committed to “the self-determination of women and the democratization of gender relations” since 1974. The AEP also publishes “aep informationen”, a magazine for politics and society and one of the oldest feminist periodicals in Austria.

We took this as an opportunity to interweave sustainability studies and gender studies as an editorial team of feminist-interested and decidedly feminist researching UniNEtZ students and colleagues and to prepare a themed issue of the same name of “aep information” parallel to the audio series “Sustainability, feminist”, which will be published in spring 2025 as issue 01/2025.

To get in the mood for the publication, a discussion round on the topic “What does feminism have to do with sustainability?” took place in the AEP library as part of the Sustainability Week at the University of Innsbruck. Milena Eberharter (SP IV), Bettina Knoflach (SP I, II) and Dijana Simić (SDG 5) from the UniNEtZ, together with trainer Joanna Egger (Social Change Rocks!), explored the question of what gender equality has to do with sustainable development - with a view to theory and practice.