PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation Erasmus Project

Project Title

PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation

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 2015

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

“PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation” was a project developed to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and Latin America, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. Indeed the project goal was to meet the above mentioned needs and priorities, by raising awareness on the role of women in family, society and economy and by promoting the women empowerment in Europe and Latin America.

The project lasted 15 months and involved the following organizations: Lunaria – Italy, Solidarites Jeunesses – France, Pandora Mirabilia – Spain, El Hombre Sobre La Tierra-Mexico, Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru-Perù and Fundaciòn Proyecto Ecològico Chiriboga-Ecuador.

Specifically the project aimed to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth social workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs in Europe and Latin America with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in short and medium voluntary service activities and in local and international projects.

The project included different actions: itinerant feasibility visit; training course on gender issues and non formal education methods, youth meetings in the LA countries; training course on project management; study phase in the LA countries; local actions implementation in the LA countries; training course-restitution and methods sharing and follow up activities.

During the project the consortium organizations have developed, tested and assessed a methodological package, including non formal education methods, tool kits and video tutorials, to approach different target groups and to facilitate the gathering and capitalization of different outcomes.

The project has foreseen to achieve the following outcomes and results: development of a pedagogical set of methodology and training methods for youth workers and peer educators; non-formal learning methods upgrading and testing; promotion of peer-learning activities; foster of cooperation and networking between LA and EU organization in the field of gender equality.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 100708,84 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASSOCIAZIONE LUNARIA & Country: IT

Project Partners