The Peace Institute is a non-profit research institution developing interdisciplinary research work in the fields of social and human sciences. PI is a non-governmental civil society organisation active on national, EU and international levels, connecting academic perspective with concrete social and public policy engagement in the fields of human rights, gender equality, media and diverse minorities. PI has a legacy of over 150 large, medium and small research and other projects carried out in cooperation with numerous national and international partners. It reaches into the fields of marginalised social and political topics that have not found their space in activities of other institutions; in last years those were issues of the Erased, situations of Roma, migrants, issues of visibility and space of ethnic and other minorities in the media, situation of new unrecognized minorities, intimate citizenship (LGBT), etc. PI’s role of an important agent in the field of equality and rights in Slovenia has been built also with publishing of five book series. In the series Politike numerous studies on (in)equality, especially from the fields of gender and minorities were published.

University of Ljubljana brings together teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate study programs, superior scientific and publication work.

Researchers at the Faculty of Social Studies systematically analyse employment, topics related to the proposed project including the reconciliation of professional and family life. In the last decade the Faculty collaborated in the following international research projects related to reconciliation of professional and family life:

Changing Labour Markets, Welfare Policies and Citizenship, COST A 13- WG on Gender issues (1999-2003)

Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace, 5th Framework Programme of the European Union (2003-2005)

Gender, Work and Employment in Ten Candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, European Foundation (2003-2004)

Young mothers/families friendly employment – Equal programme, ESS (2004-2006)

Parents between work and family, Equal Opportunities Office of the Republic of Slovenia (2004-2005)

Reconciling work and welfare in Europe (RECWOWE), FP6, Network of Excellence. Strand: Family, work and welfare regimes (2006-2011). Among many publications resulting from this project in which researchers from FSS were co-authors is a new book Work Life Balance (Oxford University Press, 2014) edited by the world known researcher on fatherhood, prof. Barbara Hobson.

ZSSS is a voluntary and democratic organisation, independent of political parties, parliament, government and religious communities, founded on 6 April 1990. It comprises 22 trade unions from different sectors from the whole of Slovenia. Since 1999 the ZSSS is a full member of the European Trade Union Confederation and cooperates in various bodies of the European Union, among them in Administrative Board of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and in Governing Board at the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work.

ZSSS is more intensely engaged with the topics related to equal opportunities form men and women via the Committee on Equal Opportunities, led by Mag. Andrew Poje. The Committee is focused on finding ways to provide equal opportunities in the context of work for both genders. Efforts are also held at various negotiations, when the representatives of the Trade Unions advocate for the rights of women’s employees. The activities in the field of equal opportunities were comprehensively addressed in the project “Gender pay gap – from expertise to action”, funded by European Commission in 2013.

Nicha LLC is a full service communication agency – graphic and web design, event management, multimedia and public relations. They offer comprehensive support and expertise in the field of communication. With the eleven-year experience in the market they have gained a number of reputable clients and references, to mention only two: campaign “Ustavimo delo na črno” and “Enakost spolov”. They organized at least hundred events, from professional and educational conferences, entertainment and social events to multi-day festivals and congresses. They organized more than hundred events, such as expert and educational conferences, social and entertainment events and daily festivals and congress. Among other things, they carried out a series of highly successful events for the Ministry of Economic Affairs under the title “Postani podjetnica” to promote women’s entrepreneurship. Owners of the company Nicha are women and mothers, and for eleven years they successfully balance their professional and private life.

Reform is a non- profit organisation, an NGO in Oslo, providing counselling, educational and research activties. It receives annually funding from the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs. Reform also initiates and participates in national and international projects.

Reforms objectives are threefold: (1)To improve and develop knowledge about boys and men. (2) To promote male perspectives in the media and in the general public – related to gender equality. (3) To help men on the local level through several services.

Reform is providing diverse set of activities: Political and societal advocacy in press and media, Government contact, Individual counselling service, Anger management groups, Legal advisory service, Men’s helpline, Publications, Seminars and Lectures.

Reform has many experiences in participating in national and European projects (among them):

Equal Partners – Reconsidering the Role of Men in Work and Private Life (2005 – 2006)

FOCUS – Fostering Caring Masculinities (2006-2007)

Papparingen (2009-2010). The objective of the project was to test and map out how to organise groups for fathers of newborn children in Norway. In the project three successful pilot groups were established with aim to raise the fathers’ competence in childrearing and to include them as equal childcares in the families from the start.

Tiltak 33 (2012 – ongoing). The project run courses and trainings about fathers and gender equality. The target groups of the courses are public servants providing services for families with young children.