Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs Project aims to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs and by doing this to increase the visibility of gender issues in youth organizations. EU Mobility Programs such as Erasmus + mobilize so many young people all around the Europe which brings so many excellent opportunities together with. At the same time, it is obvious that gender discrimination is a global /transnational issue and it effects all the young women's life all around the world including Europe. Especially being a young woman foreigner means facing many different challanges which might differentiate from their men peers. Even though there are differences according to travelled countries structure, the organization of society legitimizes the discriminative action and sexual harassment against young women. Therefore, discussing preventive suggestions against those measures and developing reliable solutions and mechanisms will contribute increasing the quality of travel that young women experience within exchange programs. Project aims;- To explore experiences of discriminative action against young women and challanges they face who travel abroad within an exchange program in 5 different countires. - To focus on best practices of countries which have supportive mechanisms for young women - To establish and promote new tools and solidarity mechanisms /networks in order to empower young women primarily- To develop new models for public services that is planned for youngesters- To encourage young women to be the main actor while promoting the innovative solutions. - To advocate the Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Program coordinators in local and international level.- Moreover, new mechanisms that aim to prevent those difficulties, unjust treatment and abuse of rights will be developed and advocated.Main results of the project are as follows;1- Making challanges and discriminative action visible: Each partner country will prepare a situation report. This report will be prepared as a result of series of interviews with organizer institutions and meetings with exchange students. During the meetings, each partner will focus on women students’ experiences in terms of facing discriminative behaviour in the country they travelled to, considering socializing and living spaces of Erasmus students (Erasmus gatherings, houses). The outputs will reveal if young women’s background (country, ethnicities, physical appearance) affects their experience.2 - Developing preventive actions: That work involves advocacy in universities and state organs to develop preventive solutions to the discriminative action and make young women’s life easier. These actions will be combined in a Guide and Video.3 - Developing solution mechanisms: An important part of the solution of some instances is based on solidarity networks that are conducted among the subjects of the issue (workshops for possible solutions in 5 countries). Solidarity networks will be encouraged to establish for students. Young women will be empowered throughout sharing their experiences. 4- Developing an international network: All partner countries and more youth organizations who work on gender and mobility will be gathered in one International Networking Meeting in order to build a sustainable relations and contribute to local solidarity networks. 5- Advocating for a Gender Policy Recommendation in EU Mobility Programs: The Final Report will contain both the project experience and the policy recommendations stem by workshops and project experinces.Project will last 16 months, starting from September 2016 till December 2017 and involves 6 partners from 5 countries.
“Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs” is an Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnership project to promote innovative solutions on gender related problems for youth organizations by building capacity and strategic partnerships and to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs. This partnership brings together four (4) civil society organizations and a university unit working on the field of youth in four different countries. Partners are Community Volunteers Foundation (TOG), Turkey (coordinator), Yasar University, Turkey; the Portuguese Network of Young People for Gender Equality (REDE), Portugal; United Societies of Balkans (USB), Greece; and EURO-NET, Italy. Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs Project aims to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs and to increase the visibility of gender issues in youth organizations. EU Mobility Programs such as Erasmus + mobilize so many young people all around the Europe together brings excellent opportunities for young people. At the same time, it is obvious that gender discrimination is a global/transnational issue and it effects all the young women's life all around the world including Europe. Especially being a young woman foreigner means facing many different challenges which might differentiate from their men peers. Even though there are differences according to travelled countries structure, the organization of society legitimizes the discriminative action and sexual harassment against young women. Therefore, discussing preventive suggestions against those measures and developing reliable solutions and mechanisms will contribute increasing the quality of mobility programs and young women’ experience. The other aims of the project are ; - To explore experiences of discriminative action against young women and challanges within an exchange program in 4 different countires; - To focus on best practices on gender which have supportive mechanisms for young women; - To establish and promote new tools and solidarity network in order to empower young women; - To encourage young women to be the main actor while promoting the innovative solutions; - To advocate the ‘Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Program’ to local and international authorities, decision makers, public entities, NGOs and networks; The intellectual outputs realized within the scope of the project are: Situation Report: the major aim of this study is to collect data that will allow to develop mechanisms of prevention and response to situations of discrimination, thus striving to increase the quality of the experience that young women and young LGBTI+ within exchange programmes and to bring the gender perspective to the centre while considering and evaluating the mobility programmes. Guide: Guide contains the support mechanisms that young women and LGBTI+ can appeal in the case of violence of their rights. Video: Three video has been prepared on the title of “ What is Gender Based Violence?”, “What can young people do to struggle with gender based violence during the mobility programs” and “ What is gender based violence”. Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Programs: Gender Policy Recommendation contains the current situation analyze and recommendations that are developed regarding prevention of gender-based discrimination within mobility programs. Also, within the framework of the project, 5 study visits among partner organizations were organized to to learn from each other on various gender-related issues. During each study visit, the participants visited six different NGOs, which are active in youth field working for gender equality or/and LGBTQ+ rights; higher education institutions; and municipalities. At the end of the project 1 international network meeting has