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The Bremen and Oldenburg region is characterized by the surrounding coastal landscape: The North Sea with its unique tidal mud flats or Wadden Sea, characterized and formed by high and low tides. These are opposing forces that complement each other and cannot exist without each other. One can rely on the changing of the tides, twice per day. And although the daily reappearance of high and low tide expresses a strong continuity, the tides are a force of nature that, observed over a long period of time, bring enormous changes. Entire landscapes were formed through the continuous power of the tides over millennia.
FiNuT is like that. We’ve already had 28 years of congresses and we count on the fact that it is possible to meet with like-minded women every year on Ascension Day weekend. The combination of contextual and thematic debate with exchange of experiences regarding work and study situations along with career opportunities for women in fields dominated by men is what makes this congress so successful. Plunging into the tide gives us energy and motivates us to continue working and studying in a male-dominated environment. Strengthened and equipped with new projects, ideas and strategies, and knowing the next FiNuT Congress is certain, the participants go back to the mud flats and work on great changes.
The congress itself also acts like the tides. During FiNuT’s 28 years many different women have participated. It is inevitable that many things change. New participants join and “veterans” keep coming, so there is change along with a large element of continuity. The FiNuT Congress lives from the mix and the activities of its participants; they shape the program and the congress. New ideas are discussed; old ideas show up again almost every year. Two of them – internationalization and rooms for women – were chosen as main themes for this congress.
