European Union foresees the promotion of equality between men and women as a task of their members, but the statistics shows a slow progress. The project responds to this situation connected with social inclusion and employment. Project "Innovative work-life balance tools to promote equality of men and women" supports and tries to solve equality of women and men by creating innovative outputs focused on implementation of work-life balance into companies. Four partner organizations will participate in this project, the Czech Republic (AOA CR), the Slovak Republic (AIVD SR), Greece (DAFNI KENTRO EPAGGELMATIKIS KATARTISIS) and Portugal (EPATV). Chosen organizations have extensive experience with European projects and they deal with equal treatment problem solving in the area of research and by training activities. Examples of best practice will be intermediated in the form of video-interviews with 16 HR managers who use WLB tools in their companies effectively. In the second part of the project, partner organizations will create WLB Blended Learning tools - e-learning platform of Work-Life Balance Implementation in Companies and a Manual for Trainers of Work-Life Balance Implementation intended for trainers/tutors/consultants who will lead WLB Blended Learning with the aim to implement WLB tools into companies. WLB Blended Learning tools will be translated into Czech, Slovak, Portuguese, Greek and English to involve wider audience and target groups in most European countries. The innovative educational system will play an essential role in answering present and future demands of the gender equality education and support of employment and work-life balance in Europe. Trainers/tutors/consultants will attend a short-term joined staff training event to strengthen their lecturing skills and be trained for leading WLB Blended Learning which will be designed for HR managers, company management, company trainers, employees and other attendees who are responsible for implementation of WLB tools into companies. In WLB Blended Learning HR managers and company trainers will be trained. In Pilot Implementation activity there will also be students involved, from whose ranks there will future HR specialists be recruited. They will have an important role in sustaining interest and changing attitudes in future generations in Europe in the context of gender issues. Project results will then be sufficiently verified and evaluated. Project outputs will be disseminated at four conferences, through e-mailing to members and cooperating organizations and media (Facebook, Linkedln, EPALE, the Internet, youtube.com etc.). These effective disseminations will take place on the local, regional, national and EU levels. Sustainability of the project is given firstly by the chosen form of modern technologies and secondly by project objectives which support social inclusion and employability of persons endangered at labour market. The project responds to present need of European society to sustain balance between work and family lives. The interest and promotion of gender equality education is connected with gender strategical documents and will help to overcome significant challenges in Europe so it will still be up-to-date topic for target groups, stakeholders and European society generally.
The project objective was to support the job transparency and inclusion in the issue of equality of men and women in European society. The aim of the project was to affect society´s attitude in such way that less people would not experiece gender discrimination. The status was not satisfactory and therefore it was necessary to update and develop new training programme to spread and advance knowledge in gender equality education. The objective was to to design innovative digital materials used in blended learning which applies tools of work-life balance into practice. Friendly condition for employees, respectively women-employees are more and more requested in modern European society. The project objectives were divided into three phases: - short term objective - to create a new, up to date and high quality e-learning course of WLB implementation - middle term objective - by disseminating the project and with the addition of the high quality course we increased the reputions of organizations, which in turn increased the impact on local environments. - long term objective - to streighten gender equality in companies and society by creating well informed and educated HR managers. The second long term objective was to increase cross-borded cooperation and partnership.
The project responded to the need to support policies of equal treatment between men and women. Although equality is supported by the European Union and at national levels, statistics show that there are still reserves in this area, especially disparity at work (remuneration and career) and in the family (sharing housework and childcare). Project reacts on needs and expectations of individuals/employees and mostly women-employees for whom it is demandning to combine family and work. The project aims also to general dissemination of gender issues which help to build awareness of gender equality and non-discrimination in whole Europe. Building the right skills can help European countries improve economic prospect and social cohesion by supporting gender equality and women rights. Advancing competencies of HR management, leaders, company trainers and also employees can have an impact on the whole society to overcome significant European challenges.