REGENERART – REthinking GENder Equality thRough ART Erasmus Project

Project Title

REGENERART – REthinking GENder Equality thRough ART

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Under the Covid-19 pandemic, inequalities have led to a different impact on women and men, including an increase in violence against women (VAW). Gender equality is a necessary condition to achieve growth and social cohesion and a key element in the prevention of VAW.

As gender is socially constructed and art is the expression of the society it is embedded in, if looked from a gender perspective, it becomes self-explanatory that, too often, art has contributed to the crystallisation and reproduction of gender stereotypes and unequal relations between men and women. For the same reason, art has an intrinsic power to rewrite the collective perception of men’s and women’s roles, striving for more equality, equity and inclusion.

Based on this rationale, REGENERART aims to promote art and creativity as innovative tools to increase the competences of secondary school teachers and students to re-think gender roles and stereotypes towards a more equal and inclusive society, free of gender-based violence (GBV) and discriminations.

To reach this objective, the project foresees the development of the following Intellectual Outputs:
– IO1, an e-learning course to increase teachers’ competences of using art to promote gender equity and equality, recognise and prevent violence against women
– IO2, a Manifesto for a new gender-sensitive art
– IO3, the REGENERART online exhibition space for the promotion of a new gender-sensitive art
– IO4, the REGENERART Textbook. Looking at Art from a gender perspective

Activities will be carried out by partners in a collaborative and participatory way. Partner schools’ teachers will undertake the e-learning course and will implement, as a pilot test, educational activities based on the material included therein. During an online workshop, students will be engaged with artists in the writing process leading to the development of the Manifesto. These groups will work together also in the production of new artworks to be exposed in the REGENERART online exhibition space. The e-learning course will be promoted among other schools beyond the partnership, too, in order to support its exploitation. Artists within and outside the partnership will be involved in project activities, also thanks to a contest that will be launched to promote the production of new gender-sensitive art.

The project aims to involve participants both inside and outside the partnership: at least 100 teachers undertaking the e-learning course, 2.000 students participating in REGENERART educational activities, 25 artists collaborating in activities with students, 100 entries submitted by students and artists from all over Europe for the contest.

The main result of the project is the development of an innovative and creative educational approach for the promotion of gender equality and protection from GBV. Students, teachers and artists will become more aware of how gender stereotypes are reproduced, also through art, pushing them to take action to re-model gender roles and power relations in a creative way. Thanks to the REGENERART approach, art becomes a disruptive tool for target groups to read the reality, enhance the critical thinking of young generations and promote the development of skills towards social inclusion and justice. Finally, artists will have new tools to present themselves as educators and activists, possibly resulting in more employability opportunities and visibility of their work.

The project will provide new tools to promote quality education. It will contribute also to push forward the agenda on gender equality and prevention of GBV.

The cross-fertilisation of sectors will improve the capacity of participants to always include more perspectives when looking at specific issues, supporting their readiness by being open-minded, curious and forward-looking.

REGENERART aims to have an impact on other stakeholders outside the partnership, too. Other schools, even at different levels, could be inspired by the innovative approach to deal with art and gender issues; museums, cultural associations, artistic movements and collectives could become more aware of the need of applying a gender perspective to art or could undertake educational activities with other audiences using the same approach; the academia’s and pedagogues’ research on innovative educational practices can be enhanced by the results of the project; policy and decision-makers, both those involved in the promotion of gender equality and prevention of GBV and those focusing on education, will have at hand new tools to improve the quality, relevance and effectiveness of their actions.

Finally, in the long-term, society at large will benefit from more equal relations between women and men, free from GBV.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 295110 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fondazione Pangea Onlus & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
• 149th School Sofia
• I.I.S. Via Salvini, 24
• Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V.
• Liceul de Arte Dinu Lipatti, Pitesti
• INITIATIVES POUR UNE FORMATION EFFICACE ASBL
• DOMNA Associazione di promozione sociale