Peers for Equality – Developing capacities for tackling gender based discrimination Erasmus Project

Project Title

Peers for Equality – Developing capacities for tackling gender based discrimination

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

“Peers for Equality – developing capacities for tackling gender based discrimination” is an Eramsmus+ project aiming at developing the capacities of platforms and NGOs working with peer education of responding to the needs existing in European and Central Asian societies for reducing gender based discrimination.To achieve this, two international peer training networks: the European Peer Training Organisation and Y-Peer will cooperate to develop a new educational programme. This will be done by exchanging, adapting and creating non­formal methods and tools that will help future peer trainers change the mentality of people with respect to gender based discrimination.For this, until the end of the project, we plan to achieve the following objectives:- developing a new programme of non­formal learning that will reduce gender based discrimination among participants by at least 40%, adapted to the needs and realities of the European and Central Asian society, based on the partners’ cooperation and the experiences they had regarding this topic- testing and assessing the effectiveness of these new youth practices in 5 different cultural contexts, on a minimum of 100 youngsters;- ensuring the sustainability of this programme for at least 3 years and its multiplication;Through 3 youth mobilities and on-field activities which will involve young peer educators from Central Asia, East and West Europe, we plan to test the future methodologies and kick start a new programme for addressing gender inequality.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109516,36 Eur

Project Coordinator

OFENSIVA TINERILOR ASOCIATIA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN PEER TRAINING ORGANISATION
• PUBLIC ASSOCIATION YOUTH PEER EDUCATION NETWORK Y-PEER