Research, participation, gender issues

The FBI Centre” is a provider for adult education and an independent research institute rooted in the sciences shop movement. It is organised as a non-governmental organisation – NGO. The main objective of the FBI Centre is to bridge the gap between science and the civil society in the sense of “making advanced knowledge accessible, understandable and applicable for a broad public” by means of transforming current and self-generated research results into applicable courses in the frame of education and development. It serves as a link between knowledge producing systems and society and between scientific knowledge and experiential knowledge on issues related to research, society and culture with a special focus on social and gender issues, transculturality, participation and empowerment.