On 5–6 August 2025, women’s rights organisations from across Europe met in Stockholm to launch MOTERIS, a new EU-co-funded initiative to monitor and protect women’s civic spaces across the EU.
Over the next two years, 28 civil society actors in 14 Member States will be supported to strengthen advocacy, safety, and organisational resilience in the face of growing restrictions and backlash against women’s rights.
The project is coordinated by the Swedish Women’s Lobby in close partnership with the European Network of Migrant Women, the Hungarian Women’s Lobby, the Coordination Française pour le Lobby Européen des Femmes (CLEF), and the Lithuanian Women’s Lobby. Together, these partners bring a wealth of national and EU-level expertise to address a pressing challenge: the shrinking civic space for women’s rights organisations and defenders.
Key information about MOTERIS
Funding: Co-funded by the European Union.
Duration: The project will run for 2 years.
Activities and mechanisms:
Creation of a mechanism to monitor women’s civic spaces in Europe.
Support for 28 civil society actors in 14 EU Member States to defend and advance the human rights of women and girls.
Establishment of a unified framework to track restrictions on civic space for women.
Development of practical tools to strengthen advocacy, safety, budgeting, and organisational resilience.
Mapping of feminist actors across the EU to promote coordinated and strategic responses.
A series of activities will be rolled out in the coming months, including research, training, and advocacy efforts with women’s rights organisations.
Designed and implemented by the French Coordination for the European Women’s Lobby, a series of six trainings for feminist actors across the EU will be organized from January to November 2026.
Five of these modules will be taking place online and one will be held in person, in Budapest, Hungary. You are welcome to participate in all of them or to join us for a few modules.
Tuesday, January 27th 2026, 2pm – 5pm (Central European Time – UTC+1)
General Objective: Equip feminist activists and women’s rights organisations with the tools to analyse public budgets through a gender lens and strengthen advocacy for equitable, transparent, and accountable public spending.
Tuesday, March 24th 2026, 2pm – 5pm (Central European Time – UTC+1)
General Objective: Provide women’s rights organisations with the knowledge and tools to engage with human rights monitoring bodies and legal mechanisms at EU and international levels.
Tuesday, May 19th 2026, 2pm – 5pm (Central European Time – UTC+2)
General Objective: Equip feminist organisations with concrete tools to develop, structure, or strengthen their advocacy strategies and engage meaningfully with institutions at local, national, and EU levels.
First week of July 2026 – Budapest, Hungary
General objective : Consolidate learning from online modules, build transnational solidarity networks, engage in strategy labs, get familiar with the monitoring framework
Tuesday, September 29th 2026, 2pm – 5pm (Central European Time – UTC+2)
General Objective: Address the psychological and emotional toll of feminist activism in hostile contexts and provide participants with tools to recognise, prevent and respond to burnout through an individual and organisational care lens.
Tuesday, November 17th 2026, 2pm – 5pm (Central European Time – UTC+1)
General Objective: Provide feminist activists and organisations with tools to recognise and respond to cyberviolence, strengthen digital safety, and protect their dignity and activism in the context of increasing backlash.
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