The International Women's University (ifu) has offered more than 900 female students from all over the world the opportunity to participate in a postgraduate research and study program in Germany at several locations. ifu's first semester offered interdisciplinary academic work in six project areas: body, city, information, migration, water and work.
The Project Speak Out aimed at giving voice to the different discourses of migrant, refugee and ethnic minority women and to their translocational positionalities, about migration experiences and intimate, familiar, institutional and racial violence. Through the Project, in the four Countries, in Padua, Madrid, Barcelona, Helsinki and The Netherlands, some of the involved women have begun to develop multicultural groups, which can act as a bridge among others MRM women, with native women, in their communities and with the institutional local networks. They will promote awareness actions for peer to peer prevention, support and information on violence against women issues.