• is an umbrella research network of women and men researchers who are researching on men and masculinities in an explicitly gendered way.
• brings together researchers from European countries, initially Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, UK, and subsequently Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Sweden.
• plans in the future to include researchers from other European countries.
• acts as an information resource for other researchers and policy-makers.
• aims to develop empirical, theoretical and policy outcomes on men.

The CROME website was established with funding from the EU Framework 5 project “The Social Problem of Men”. Thereafter it has been supported by other funding, especially Academy of Finland and EU Framework 6 Coordination Action on Human Rights Violations (CAHRV). Resources include documents, data & reference material.