Compilation of Repository for Gender Research

German Research Foundation Grants Funds Totaling 500,000 Euros. The German Research Foundation has allocated 500,000 euros over a two-year period for a cooperation project of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The newly founded Margherita von Brentano Center at Freie Universität will have the main responsibility. The funds will be used for the compilation of a repository, or central storage location, for gender research. The electronic infrastructure makes it possible to store the results of gender research indefinitely, while making the data more widely accessible. There are also plans to create a transdisciplinary platform for free publishing. The repository will function as a bridge between the research on women's and gender studies that has been conducted over the past several decades and the future viability of women's and gender studies as a recognized and networked field.