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BeFem – feminist cultural center is a Serbian feminist group established in March 2011 but actively working in the feminist field since mid 2009.
BeFem promotes ideas and politics of feminism and encourages young women to get involved and contribute in re/constructing reality. Main course of the BeFem is the BeFem festival of feminist culture and action. Festival is a continuation of what the feminist movement has been doing so far and at the same time it is opening new fields of action through dialogue and initiatives with feminists with different background. Every year BeFem is formed through cooperation between activists, theorists and musicians from Balkan region and Sweden.
Apart from the festival, BeFem organizes the course “Feminist Media Culture: Gender Production”, in cooperation with Center for Women’s Studies within the one-year undergraduate program of Women’s Studies.

The Platform arises from the need for a free and safe space where activist, intellectual, artistic and cultural production can take place, which will contribute to the visibility of various feminist practices and technologies of resistance. Regional women’s, feminist and queer festivals, media websites and initiatives belong to the continuity of feminist practices in the nEXt YU area, while at the same time they open up new fields of action and voice a new generation of feminists with different private and public histories. Members of the platform are collaborating in different projects, the main one in this period is WoW – Women on Women.

The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje (ISSHS) is a nonprofit research organization in applied social and humanities studies focusing mainly on multi-issue policy studies. It holds the status of a scientific institution in the fields of social sciences and humanities accorded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia (Decision nr. 30). It is also an accredited graduate school offering MA level programs in multi-issue policy studies, cultural studies and gender studies. The Institute holds an Erasmus+ charter of Higher Education Institutions in Europe. Its core activities consist in multi–issue policy studies and policy related advocacy and training, coupled with basic research in the social sciences and humanities.

Vox Feminae platform – is a space of gender and media culture which acts as a platform of voices. The mission of the independent media portal VoxFeminae.net (updated daily since 2006.), Vox Feminae Festival (held every fall since 2007.), video production (3 documentaries and around 50 short videos) and services is to increase the visibility and influence of women and all the other gender aware individuals and groups who, through their work, contribute to the creation of a society of gender equality and by their own example encourage socially responsible action.

Gender and Politics Research Network in South-East Europe (GenPolSEE) is a network that primarily foster research on gender and political representation from a feminist perspective in the Balkans and Southeast Europe. The network is dedicated to the exchange of knowledge and research experience, the promotion of feminist methodology and connecting with international expertise, networks and platforms that support theoretical and empirical research of an innovative and transformative issues.

TkH is an independent (institutionally non-aligned, extra-academic) platform for performing theoretical-artistic activism. It is initiated and run by the editorial collective TkH whose members are theorists and artists coming from performance theory and practice, theater, cinema, and visual arts. TkH was founded a group for theoretical and artistic research at the end of 2000 in Belgrade. Since 2002 TkH platform operates as an independent organization: TkH-center for performing arts theory and practice. TkH’s activities are a theoretical praxis in the field of contemporary performing arts, implemented through textual production, self-organization, critical education and cultural policy. They are realized through several programs, including TkH Journal for performing arts theory.