Empowerment through education- gender equality & political leadership Erasmus Project

Project Title

Empowerment through education- gender equality & political leadership

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project is focused on solving gender inequalities in the European society – the underrepresentation of women in politics.Women’s educational organizations from partners countries / Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Finland/ for years have been running education, but all of them expressed the need to refresh the perspectives, improve the quality of the educational services cause there was still inadequacy in resources educational actions consume and unsatisfied results they bring in public life.Collaborative work of the partnership /Poland,US, Finland,Czech Rep. Ireland/ has been designed to support planned educational programs,create new strategies and approaches as a result of collaborative learning and exchange of experiences.Implementation of the project increased social capital, competencies and professional skills of the participating organizations’ staff which positively influenced their educational activities and therefore helped to foster the speed of changes in European societies.
The project activities included: 4 Transnational Meetings of the staff, 3 Joint Staff Training events, 1 Multiplier event – dissemination conference in Cracow and intellectual outputs: GEPLE Electronic Platform with the collection of innovative tools and materials, research report upon educational activities run in Europe.
Total number of participants: 302 /adult education staff, trainers, lecturers, learners, volunteers/. Innovation was the engagement of the American partner, who brought to the project huge input and its own, very specific learning/training approach. The American partner shared its experience, know-how and ICT devices that have been supporting successfully development of digital democracy and female political leadership education over last years. Coordinator of the project: Active Women Association from Poland. Large dissemination campaignes helped to spread the results and outcomes in Europe. Intelectual outputs – mainly Geple electroni educational platform and research report are sustainable and accesible to public under Creative Common licence 4.0.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195222,9 Eur

Project Coordinator

STOWARZYSZENIE AKTYWNE KOBIETY & Country: PL

Project Partners

• BRAND-SOFI
• Women for Election Limited
• VoteRunLead
• Towarzystwo Edukacji Antydyskryminacyjnej
• Fórum 50 %, o.p.s.