Sisterality – International network of girls and young women Erasmus Project

Project Title

Sisterality – International network of girls and young women

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

Three groups of young women decided to carry out Transnational youth initiative because they are all facing the same problems in their country (Italy, Croatia, Austria) – gender-inequality on the labour market.

The project name Sisterality is a mix between Sister and Solidarity and leads already to the purpose of the youth initiative. With this project we wanted to create an international network of girls and young women to promote their employability, to encourage them for labour mobility and to create awareness about the topic “gender-inequality on the labour market” through a campaign.
Our target group are girls and young women who had already suffered from gender-inequality on the labour market. So our participants are unemployed or in a precarious working conditions e.g. fixed termed contracts, seasonal jobs, working on projects, low income, no protection against dismissal and people. The participants of the Transnational Youth Initiative were between 20-30 years. Every group have had a coach.

The initiative combined workshops, and organization of activities for citizens, sexism and gender equality topic with activism and use of ITC. Through this initiative we wanted to raise awareness of the public in our local communities and include citizens in our actions. Through non formal learning and organization of activities we develop knowledge that will possibly be helpful to improve our employability on labor market. Every group of each country had 4 female participants and one coach for each group. It was possible that more than 4 participant per group are included.

General objectives:
Rise awareness of sexism and gender based discrimination on labor market in society and increasing the employability of girls and young women on the labour market.

Specific objectives:
– Create a network of girls and young woman from EU countries (Italy, Austria, and Croatia) to work together on promotion of gender-equality on the labour market. Share our experiences about the topic, examples of good practices.
– Gain knowledge on women human rights, sexism, laws of gender based discrimination at EU level
– Empower civil citizenship and encourage active participation
– Increase employment opportunities of girls and young woman
– Developing a set of skills and knowledge: entrepreneurial skills, digital competences (use of ITC), language skills

We have organized different activities in which we used skills and knowledges gained on workshops. Workshpos were partly different in each country because of the needs of each participant group, and local context.
We have organized workshops to the following different topics:
– Social entrepreneurship (team working, activities organizing,how to turn idea to reality, how to write an EU or Erasmus+ project)
– Digital competences (use of digital tools such as: how to make a web platform and blog, how to communicate via social networks, how to make podcast show, radio show, video and photography)
– Women human rights and gender inequality on the labour market in context of the EU

Organization of public events and other activities:
– Creating social media platforms (facebook pages, blog, instagram page) where we informed the public about gender inequality on the labour market and women human rights in an EU context
– Movie nights, round tables, discussions, podcast, editing Wikipedia marathon, awareness raising campaign

Regarding the campaign we have achieved following results:
– Project has contributed to raising awareness of gender-inequality on a local, regional and national and European level.
– Active citizenship is empowered, and citizens are motivated to give their own contribution for social change.
– Young people are encouraged for social engagement and activism.
– The network of young european women is created.

On a personal level the participants gained some skills and made improvement in:
– Digital Skills
– Leading Skills
– Activist Skills
– Creating networks
– Entrepreneurial Skills
– More positive attitudes about EU and democratic values
– Knowledge of human women rights in the EU context
– Language Skills
– Intercultural Skills

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 20300 Eur

Project Coordinator

UDRAGA ZA LJUDSKA PRAVA I GRADANSKU PARTICIPACIJU PARITER & Country: HR

Project Partners

• TDM 2000
• Psychosoziales Zentrum für Mädchen und junge Frauen – die Spinnerei