Our programme and plans for 2006-2007

We are of course in a transitional phase at the moment as we prepare to move. Nevertheless have two things planned for the coming months. At the beginning of July we are organizing a week-long women's seminar. The response to this initiative exceeded our expectations and we are looking forward to welcoming women activists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. We hope the range of experiences represented will enable us to deepen our understanding of the many-faceted aspects of the women's movement today as well as the role of women in other movements, in particular the global justice movement. Our intention is that this week of in-depth discussions will serve as a basis for elaborating the programme of a three-week session in 2007. Our other plan is to hold our now regular youth session at the end of August. After that we will presumably not be able to organise any more sessions in 2006 but will have to concentrate all our energies on the move to Timorplein.

In 2007-08, with our new status and new location, we already plan to organise, in addition to the women's session, global justice, LGBT and youth sessions. And we are discussing how to broaden our curriculum. One project that we are looking at is a session centred on the question of ecology, with particular emphasis on the question of climate change. There are many other possibilities, for example to bring together trade unions activists from different countries and continents to discuss the challenges facing trade unions under the impact of globalization. And of course we are looking forward to welcoming other progressive organizations who will be making use of our facilities.

As we move to our new location with our library of 25,000 books we plan to become integrated into the Amsterdam Digital Library, which will link us to academic and research institutions and make us more accessible to the public.