Institutions

Over the past five years, the institutions listed below have been part of the ELENOR network, formerly known as META-EU. Together, they have contributed to building a strong, transnational alliance committed to feminist knowledge production, archival work, and critical engagement with gender and social justice.

We now invite additional institutions to join the ELENOR network. If your organization aligns with the values and commitments outlined in our manifesto, and you are interested in becoming part of this collaborative and supportive community, we warmly encourage you to get in touch and add your institution to the list.

Let’s continue building a more inclusive and interconnected feminist future—together. So far:

Austria

Ariadne, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien

  • URL: https://www.onb.ac.at/en/ariadne
  • Contact: Andrea Gruber & Andrea Reisner
  • Self-concept: Ariadne is the women* and gender-specific information and documentation center of the Austrian National Library (ANL), bringing women*/gender research and feminist theories into ANL’s collection guidelines.

Frauen*solidarität – feministisch- entwicklungspolitische informations- und bildungsarbeit”, Wien

  • URL: https://www.frauensolidaritaet.org/
  • Contact: Dani Baumgartner
  • Self-concept: Founded in 1982, Frauensolidarität aims to make positions of global feminist and LGBTIQ+ movements visible, providing information and educational work on women* and gender relations worldwide.

Referat Genderforschung, Vienna

Belgium

AVG Carhif

  • URL: https://avg-carhif.be
  • Contact: Els Flour
  • Self-concept: Carhif-AVG is an archive center specialised in women’s and gender history. It takes care of a rich collection of organisational and personal archives, opens them for research and tells the story of evolving gender roles.”

Frauenliga/vie féminine VoG

RoSa vzw

  • URL: https://rosavzw.be/nl/
  • Contact: Joren Janssens and Rojda Yavuz
  • Self-concept: Their collection focuses on gender and feminism.

Bulgaria

Balkan Society for Autobiographies and Social Communication

URL: http://www.history.swu.bg/temi.html

Contact: Kristina Popova, Nurie Muratova, Milena Angelova, Petar Vodenicharov

Self-concept: Aims to catalog, research, digitize, and publish women’s archives in Bulgarian state archives, having elaborated a website with over 1000 archive fonds and started a journal ‘Women and Minorities archives’.

Cyprus

Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies

  • URL: https://medinstgenderstudies.org/
  • Contact: Christina Kaili
  • Self-concept: A non-profit NGO with a small but valuable Euro-Mediterranean archive of feminist research, publications, and grey literature in Greek and English, with access to the University of Nicosia’s library.

Czech Republic

Jiřina Šiklová Library — Gender Studies library and information center

  • URL: http://en.genderstudies.cz/library/
  • Contact: Lu Přibyl
  • Self-concept: The largest public library specializing in feminist and gender topics in Central and Eastern Europe, developed on a community basis and housing an archive of Eliška Krásnohorská and oral history interviews.

Estonia

ENUT – The Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre

  • URL: https://enut.ee/
  • Contact: Marion Ründal
  • Self-concept: ENUT’s library contains approximately 9000 records on women’s and gender studies, with about one-third of its books unique to Estonia, available in various languages including Estonian and English.

France

Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, France.

Germany

AddF – Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung Kassel

  • URL: http://www.addf-kassel.de
  • Contact: Silke Mehrwald
  • Self-concept: Collects, archives, and preserves historical documents on 19th and 20th-century German women’s movements, unique in Germany, including estates, association records, and photographic collections, counteracting neglect of women’s history.

Archiv des Lette-Vereins

  • URL: Not explicitly listed in the sources.
  • Contact: Not explicitly listed in the sources.
  • Self-concept: Not explicitly stated in the provided sources.

Belladonna

DENKtRÄUME

  • URL: https://www.denktraeume.de/
  • Contact: Inga Müller and Nicolli Povijac
  • Self-concept: Since 1983, it collects materials of the German women’s movements and information on women’s and gender-related issues, with a library of 12,000 media and an archive of 100,000 documents.

DDF – Digitales-Deutsches-Frauenarchiv

FFBIZ – das feministische Archiv e.V.

  • URL: https://ffbiz.de/
  • Contact: Lisa Schug
  • Self-concept: Founded in 1978 by activists, it documents the history of feminist movements since 1986, including social, political, and artistic developments, and makes these historically under-archived materials publicly available.

FrauenGenderBibliothek Saar

FrauenMediaTurm, Das Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum

  • URL: http://www.frauenmediaturm.de
  • Contact: Debora Stickl
  • Self-concept: A unique collection with over 65,000 text documents and 8,000 pictures, focusing on gender equality, from historical women’s movements (mid-19th century) to the new women’s movement (1970s onwards).

Iceland

Women’s History Archives at the National and University Library of Iceland

  • URL: https://kvennasogusafn.is/
  • Contact: Rakel Adolphsdóttir
  • Self-concept: The sole institution of its kind in Iceland, established in 1975, dedicated to collecting, preserving, and filing documents on women’s history, including private collections of individuals and women’s associations.

Italy

Archivio storico delle donne

  • URL: https://www.archiviodonne.bz.it/
  • Contact: Ingrid Facchinelli
  • Self-concept: Operates in the trilingual South Tyrol/Italy, collecting documents about historical experiences of women in the region, focusing on the 20th century, including written documents, pictures, posters, and oral history sources.

Biblioteca italiana delle donne

Luxembourg

CID | Fraen an Gender | Luxemburg

  • URL: http://www.cid-fg.lu
  • Contact: Kathrin Eckhart
  • Self-concept: A center and meeting point for feminism and gender in Luxembourg, founded in 1992, promoting gender equality by providing knowledge through a specialized library with over 28,000 books, CDs, music scores, and periodicals.

Netherlands

Atria – Institute on gender equality and women’s history

  • URL: https://institute-genderequality.org/
  • Contact: Onessa Novak
  • Self-concept: Aims for a gender-equal society by collecting and managing the heritage of women and women’s movements, notably starting with Rosa Manus’s books and Aletta Jacobs’s archive (UNESCO heritage).

Portugal

Centro de documentação e arquivo feminista Elina Guimarães

Slovenia

Lesbian Library & Archive in Ljubljana

  • URL: https://skuc-ll.si/knjiznica/
  • Contact: Natasa Velikonja
  • Self-concept: Established in 2001, it systematically collects LGBT+ literature and documentary material related to gender and sexuality, covering theory, prose, poetry, and media, with an accessible online catalog and bibliography.

Spain

Centre de Documentació de Ca la Dona

  • URL: http://centredocumentacio.caladona.org/biblioteca
  • Contact: Not explicitly listed in the sources.
  • Self-concept: A unique library and archive in Spain, built on donations, dedicated to preserving the memory of feminist movements and dissident identities through novels, essays, pictures, university works, posters, and other objects.

Sweden

KvinnSam, Gothenburg University Library

  • URL: http://www2.ub.gu.se/kvinn/
  • Contact: Karin Henning and Rachel Pierce
  • Self-concept: The National Resource Library for Gender Studies at the University of Gothenburg, its main tasks include surveying, cataloging gender literature, compiling manuscript material on women’s history, and providing reference services.

Switzerland

Gosteli-Archive