Inclusive Digital Education Anti-discrimination AlternativeS Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inclusive Digital Education Anti-discrimination AlternativeS

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Open and distance learning; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Context of the IDEAS project is the burning issue of globally marginalized position women who are, through multiple exclusionary process, denied equal and adequate educational opportunities resulting in group vulnerability, amplified if intersected with their overwhelming poverty, disability, non-heterosexuality, a migrant or a Roma identity. Therefore, the objective of this project is to conceptualize a global response to the needs of the women from vulnerable groups, by constructing an educational program which will contribute to strengthening them, be based on empowering them, and focus on allowing and expanding their full potential.
Participants of this project are key persons from the six partner organizations: Charles University from Prague; Colour Youth, NGO from Athens; Haskoli Islands, University of Iceland; Centre for Women’s Studies, NGO from Zagreb; Research Centre for Culture, Politics and Identities, NGO from Belgrade and Center for Women’s Studies, NGO from Belgrade (lead applicant). Participating in this project is a core team of fourteen, consisting of at least two persons from each organization and four from the lead applicant, but also included is a wider circle of all the associates. Participants of the project also include from each project center (Prague, Reykjavik, Athens, Zagreb and Belgrade) women in leadership positions, civil rights activists, social workers, policy makers – all those who are targeted by the project, and will have a proactive role throughout the duration of the project. The expectation is that some of the most important stakeholders will also actively participate in the project, such as media representatives, and people in relevant decision making positions.
Target groups as final beneficiaries of this project are women from vulnerable groups, socially marginalized, especially the poor, migrant, Roma, and homeless women, non- heterosexual women, women with disabilities, etc.
Throughout the duration of the project, the activities are based on continuous communication among the project partners, and within the teams of project partners through skype and zoom meetings as well as two Transnational Project Meetings.
Activities will also include:
– developing the topic of the module into a series of (five) podcasts assigned to each partner
– building a coherent program through exchanges among partners
– transferring contents of modules into podcasts format
– outreach to the target groups and primary beneficiaries to follow the program
– broadcasting the podcasts
Parallel to this activities of this project will also have activities in: coordination, administration (including finances) and organizing project visibility.

Planned results follow from the outputs (which include 7 modules, each consisting of 5 podcasts), are in delivering an innovative educational program, anti-discriminatory in its content, free of charge for primary beneficiaries and, grounded in challenging social exclusion. The program is planned to be easily accessible, since it will be broadcasted globally through accessible podcasts.
The impact varies. Project partners and their associates will have built their capacity and strengthened competences in adapting anti-discriminatory curricula contents for digital alternative educational approach. The primary target groups, women from vulnerable groups, will be empowered to make informed choices, practice active citizenship as well as learn and acquire skills to use digital technologies and will strengthen their competences to that effect. All the relevant stakeholders will raise their awareness, skills and competences on how innovative educational contents and technology can help to empower vulnerable and marginalized groups of women.

Long term benefits will be a recognition of a model how the socially marginalized can be empowered through education so that they can enter the global community with equal access to its resources.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70217 Eur

Project Coordinator

Centar za zenske studije, Beograd & Country: RS

Project Partners

• COLOUR YOUTH – KOINOTITA LGBTQ NEONATHINAS
• Research Centre for Cultures, Politics and Identities
• UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
• Centar za zenske studije
• HASKOLI ISLANDS