GEMMA is a joint transnational interdisciplinary programme that provides high quality academic education and professional competencies for personnel working or intending to work in the areas of Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equal Opportunities across Europe and beyond.
It collects our best offer from the humanities, social sciences and health sciences, making it attractive to students worldwide and offering a wide span of options and combinations. GEMMA has been the first Erasmus Mundus Master in Women's and Gender Studies in Europe, taught by a consortium formed by 6 prestigious European universities.
It counts on an extensive network of associate partners, including 16 associate academic partners from America and Europe, and 29 industrial partners from different areas (women’s studies research and promotion institution, public administration organisms, companies and enterprise networks, feminist activist organizations and NGOs, academic and cultural networks and publishers).GEMMA's mission is to train much needed gender experts who will be able to contribute to greater equality between men and women, taking into account the intersections of ethnicity, race, class and sexuality and contributing to citizenship in the broadest sense of the word.GEMMA is unique in the way it brings together approaches to feminism from all cardinal points in Europe. Created as result of the concerted efforts of universities together within ATHENA STN, the GEMMA Consortium represents the harmonization of six different institutions from five European countries: Univ. of Granada (coordinator), Univ. of Bologna, Univ. of Lodz, Univ. of Oviedo, Univ. of Utrecht and University of York.
GEMMA is thus the fine tuning of North European, South European and Central European higher education institutions where Women’s and Gender studies is one of the main elements in their postgraduate offer. Master Length: 4 semesters, 2 years full-time ECTS: 120 (30 per semester)The programme is divided into four semesters as follows: 1st semester. (30 ECTS). Core Cluster (same at all Consortium institutions). Taken at Home University. Organized around three modules: Feminist History; Feminist Theory; Feminist Methodology. 2nd semester. (30 ECTS). Elective courses to be completed at Home University, specific to each institution. 3rd Semester. (30 ECTS) Elective courses to be completed at the Mobility University, specific to each institution. This is a mandatory mobility period which might include internships and intensive summer schools. 4th semester. (30 ECTS). Master’s thesis preparation, submission and defence, at either Home or Mobility university. It may include optional internship.