Gender in Equality – Empowering women in today’s Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Gender in Equality – Empowering women in today’s 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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

Our Erasmus+ project was called “Gender in Equality – Empowering women in today’s Europe”. The topic was the place of women in the European Union. The objective was to compare the situation in four European countries, to promote gender inclusion by fighting against female-male stereotypes and to develop action plans within the schools. This cross-disciplinary project, which took place from September 2018 to February 2021, linked 4 schools in 4 different European countries: Lycée Alfred Mézières in France, Ventspils 3.vidusskola in Latvia, Mário Sacramento Secondary School in Portugal, Colegiul National Mihai Viteazul in Romania. The language of communication was English but an introduction to the 4 languages of the countries is also planned. The first meeting in Romania, in September 2018, involved only the teachers of the project and enabled to decide the basis of the programme.
Four learning activities were planned to take place, involving short-term exchanges of groups of pupils:
– in November 2018 in Portugal;
– in March 2019 in Latvia;
– in October 2019 in Romania;
– because of the Covid-19 crisis, the last learning activity in France in March 2020 was cancelled.
In 2 years, the project enabled 77 students from 15 to 18 years old to travel.
Three domains were studied in detail during the learning activities (women and the family / women in the workplace / women in sports and culture), while one topic was tackled during the whole project inside each school: women in schools (equality in education). Each country worked on this topic in their school, thus impacting the whole school. During each learning activity, the participants were able to do a comparative analysis, attend a conference on the topic, discuss and debate on the topic. It was also the opportunity for them to discover the cultural and historical heritage of each area as well as the language of the country. The discussions led to the creation of resolutions that were sent to the European Parliament’s commission for women’s rights and gender equality (FEMM). The project also aimed to produce a guide of actions that can be done in schools to study and promote gender equality in schools.
The objectives of this project were manifold and it had different targets:
– for students: higher self-confidence, in English but also on an interpersonal level (development of linguistic and communicational skills) / development of transversal and digital skills / better awareness of European citizenship and gender equality.
– for teachers: professional development through a new teaching method based on integrated subjects and through the discovery of other school systems.
– for schools: a stronger dynamic inside the school (thanks to team work) and outside the school (better visibility and attractiveness thanks to the dissemination work).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115247,18 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lycée Polyvalent Alfred MEZIERES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Colegiul National Mihai Viteazul
• Ventspils 3.vidusskola
• Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Mario Sacramento