Gender Education Advancing Competences in Context of Changing Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Gender Education Advancing Competences in Context of Changing Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

European Union foresees the promotion of equality between men and women as a task of their members, but the statistics show that there is much to do in this field, namely regarding disparities at work (wages and careers) and in family (sharing the household and family care tasks). The project reacted to this gender inequality situation in Europe.
The project objective was to support the job transparency and inclusion in the issue of equality of men and women in European society. One of the most important elements of addressing gender equality is adult training and education. Current status is not satisfactory and therefore it is necessary to update and develop a new training programme to spread competences of gender issues.
The project aimed to design innovative Gender Blended Learning which would strengthen gender competences of stakeholders from private, state sector, NGO and other organizations that work with specific groups which need this information in the context of changing Europe. The target groups were especially key persons who spread out information among their colleagues, employees, clients and other stakeholders. The project also aimed to address the general dissemination of gender which helped to promote and build the awareness in gender issues and non-discrimination over the whole Europe. Building the right skills can help European countries to improve economic prospects and social cohesion by supporting gender equality and women rights.
The goal of the project procedure was to prepare new unified Gender Blended Learning valid in partner countries and throughout Europe. Based on project analysis of gender issues in partner countries, the course content had been developed, which was a startpoint, for design of the Gender Blended Learning. The methodology of this innovative educational concept had been described in Manual for Trainers. Gender Blended Learning consisted of Face-to-Face Module to strengthen involvement and interaction of participants, and of Gender Online Training Courses in basic, advanced and expert level according to different knowledge, needs and applications of target groups. The developed course content was transmitted into the Moodle system and multimedia and tasks were added to make the training more attractive and interactive. In the final project activity the complete training concept was implemented in target groups for students and volunteers to receive feedback.
To ensure training quality there were experienced adult educators of various sectors from partner countries who had been trained in necessary competences in gender equality, Moodle tutoring and methodology to become quality and competent trainers and tutors of Gender Blended Learning.
All four project outputs (Manual for Trainers and 3 Gender Online Training courses) were prepared in 4 European languages to involve wider audience and target groups in most European countries. The innovative educational system can play an essential role in answering present and future demands of the gender equality education in Europe.
The project dissemination had an impact on project participants in advancing their competences in gender issues, on organization to strengthen their international position, on policy makers in increasing interest in gender equality issues and on target groups and other stakeholders in changing attitude in gender issues and increasing awareness of gender equality in the whole European society. Tools of dissemination activities were professional meetings, workshops, mailing, websites, Linkedin, facebooks and EPALE and Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. These effective disseminations took place on the local, regional, national and EU level. The final dissemination activites were conferences which took place in each partner countries.
Designed outputs guaranteed sustainability after the end of EU funding. The software Moodle, in which the online courses were designed, was a simple operation software for common users and did not need any more funding. In the project there were involved young students who would have an important role in sustaining interest and changing attitudes in future generations in Europe in the context of gender issues. The interest and promotion of gender equality education is connected to gender strategical documents and helps to overcome significant challenges in Europe so it is still up-to-date topic for target groups, stakeholders and European society generally.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147118 Eur

Project Coordinator

Klub personalistu Moravy a Slezska, z.s. & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• COOLABORA CRL
• Tugedar EOOD