“My Gender Rights” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“My Gender Rights”

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

Equality between women and men is a fundamental principle of the European Union that has made “gender equality” one of the global goals of the millennium (Objective 5).

The Europe 2020 strategy makes gender equality a lever for economic growth, employment, social cohesion and sustainable development. At the same time, Europe is facing a major migration crisis with urgent needs linked to a very vulnerable and defenseless population – unaccompanied migrant minors. The Council of Europe and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have both called for European programs to be designed to support unaccompanied migrant minors and to ensure better integration.

The “My Gender Rights” project was developed over two years and brought together seven actors from six different countries: Internationaler Bund Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH Betrieb Brandenburg Nordost (Germany), STUDENT COMPUTER ART SOCIETY (Bulgaria), Ni + Ni- ( France), CIAPE – CENTRO ITALIANO PER PERMANENT LEARNING (Italy), Fastrak Consulting Ltd (United Kingdom), YOUNCLUSION (Turkey), Unis-Cité (France).
All these countries are facing the migrant crisis, which has made it possible, through this transnational approach, to considerably enrich the effectiveness of the project. Indeed, this approach has resulted in the sharing of experiences and good practices of each partner country allowing complementarity towards a successful completion of a toolbox of 5 educational productions.

The three objectives of “My Gender Rights”: “Inclusive Education, Training and Youth”, “Youth: Promoting Better Work”, “Open and Innovative Education, Training and Youth Work in the Digital Age” were achieved.

The project, led by cross-border multi-stakeholder work, has implemented and disseminated five educational tools aimed at training the public on gender equality:
– e-learning on gender issues for youth organizations and centers dealing with unaccompanied migrant minors
– A cartoon on gender equality for unaccompanied migrant minors
– A video of testimonies of former unaccompanied migrant minors
– A gender equality gaming workshop for unaccompanied migrant minors created with the contribution of their peers
– A guide on gender equality for newcomers created with input from their peers.

The different target groups set at the beginning of the project have been reached to the extent that these productions have been provided to organizations and centers hosting unaccompanied migrant minors. Each tool is freely available and is numerically downloadable. The MMNA reception and care centers, the MMNA organizations, the young workers and all the MMNA professionals, the services and all the other volunteers and public interested in the subject can use them and thus enrich their knowledge and skills.

These five tools have been translated into all the languages ​​of the partner countries. They have already been distributed and are downloadable (open access) on various public channels: website (https://mygenderrights.org/), social networks (Facebook …), Youtube.

Finally, this project had a triple impact: impact at local level (partner structure implemented locally), impact at European level (funding by Erasmus +, collaboration between European transnational actors), impact at international level (unaccompanied minor migrant beneficiaries from international countries).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 248595,63 Eur

Project Coordinator

Unis-Cité & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Fastrak Consulting Ltd
• CIAPE – CENTRO ITALIANO PER L’APPRENDIMENTO PERMANENTE
• KATILIMCI GENCLIK DERNEGI
• Ni+Ni-
• INTERNATIONALER BUND-IB BERLIN-BRANDENBURG GGMBH FUR BILDUNG UND SOZIALE DIENSTE (IB BERLIN-BRANDENBURG GGMBH)
• STUDENTSKO OBSHTESTVO ZA KOMPYUTARNO IZKUSTVO