Education should be a tool to overcome inequalities from which individuals within society set out. This has been our main motivation in our latest international projects in which we have worked on conflict resolution issues. Our aim in this new project is to tackle gender inequality from different perspectives, promoting the integration of women with equal opportunities in all areas of society. To achieve this goal, the project involves four secondary schools from Spain, Turkey, Romania and Poland. It is explained in detail the number of active participants during the whole project, in each mobility and, besides, how the school communities are going to be joined. The motivation of this project arises from a survey on equality conducted by the participating schools. It has been noted in it that the answers were related to the gender of the respondents (choice of school subjects, way of occupying the leisure-time places, choice of extracurricular activities or professional careers). In addition, the partner schools have analysed the lack of visibility in our curricula, in our environments, in the students view of their teachers or the use of language. The conclusions drawn from this survey have made us see that the main priority of this project is Social Inclusion, as we think we must ensure that women can achieve equal opportunities in every realm of society. At the same time, the teachers profiles will be enhanced, improving the training of the participating professionals and, finally, through the activities planned the competences of all the participants will be strengthened. The stated objectives imply creating a Gender Equality Observatory in each school; carrying out training activities that set the grounds of a greater awareness with regard to equality and women visibility, respect and stereotypes; encouraging experiences and opportunities for students close to social exclusion and their teachers; fostering the use of foreign languages; raising the school communities’ awareness of the importance of the chosen subject; collaborating with local institutions that work on gender equality and promoting collaborative methodologies. To get all this a set of activities are suggested; they will begin with a basic training course about equality for teachers -C1- and four mobilities/short-term exchanges with students with these contents: visibility, respect, stereotypes and equality, in such a way as to favour an inclusive and egalitarian education –C2, C3, C4 y C5. Within the previous and subsequent activities as well as those done during the mobilities, workshops for students, families and teacher will be carried out, educational materials which disseminate the contents included and improve the competences of all the participants will be created, and the expected project results will also be disseminated: development of four Equality Plans adapted to the legislation and reality of each school, implementing the four Gender Equality Observatories and creation of teaching material – at least 12 Didactic Units in open format enabling the development of a subject on Equality once the project was finished. To ensure a wider reach of this project in each of the schools, we will develop an eTwinning project with a group of academically disadvantaged students at the same time. Hence, apart from disseminating all the materials developed in Twinspaces, specific workshops with similar contents for both projects will be set. The impact will be registered in the ongoing Quality Plan, with objective quantitative and qualitative indicators that show its real significance. A great impact is expected in the schools as well as locally, regionally and internationally, on the basis of the different actions that will change the functioning of the schools –above all the Observatory and the Equality Plan- and to this aim the training of the students, teachers and families, who are expected to be more involved in the school activities, will be improved. The relations among the schools and institutions nearby will be strengthened, apart from promoting the relation with other schools to disseminate the results through the use of different social networks. To ensure that the project continues, a Sustainability Plan including all the long-term actions will be written: functioning of the Gender Equality Observatories, integration of each Equality Plan and use of the teaching units, either as part of the regular subjects or creating a new specific one on equality or including them into the complementary training carried out in the schools.
Education should be a tool to overcome inequalities from which individuals within society set out. This has been our main motivation in our latest international projects in which we have worked on conflict resolution issues. Our aim in this new Project was to tackle gender inequality from several perpectives, promoting the integration of women in all areas of society by respecting equal opprtunities. To achieve this goal, we organized an association of four secondary schools from Spain, Turkey, Romania and Poland. The motivation of this project arose from a survey on equality conducted by the particpating schools. It was noted in it that the answers were related to the gender of the respondents (choice of school subjects, way of occupying the leisure time places, choice of extracurricular activities or careers). In addition, the partner schools analysed the lack of visibility that women had in our curricula, environment, in the students’ view of their teachers or the use of language. The conclusion drawn from this survey made us see that the main priority of this project is Social Inclusion, as we thought that we had to ensure that women could achieve equal opportunities in every area of society. At the same time, the teachers’ profiles were enhanced, improving their professional training and, finally, through the activities planned the competences of all the participants were strengthened. The stated objectives implied creating a Gender Equality Observatory in each school; carrying out training activities that set the grounds of a greater awareness with regard to equality and women visibility, respect and stereotypes. We encouraged experience and opportunities for students close to social exclusion and their teachers and fostered the use of foreign languages. We also raised the school communities’ awareness of the importance of the chosen subject, collaborated with local institutions that work on gender equality and promoted collaborative methodologies. To get all this, a set of activities was suggested that began with a basic training course about equality for teachers (C1) and three face-to-face mobilities (C2, C4, C5) with students with these contents: visibility, stereotypes and equality and a virtual one (C3) about respect, since it was impossible to travel to Romania due to the pandemic. Within the previous and subsequent activities as well as those during the mobilities, workshops for students, families and teachers were carried out, educational materials which disseminated the contents included and improved the competences of all the participants were also created. Also the expected project results were disseminated: development of four Equality Plans adapted to the legislation and reality of each school, implementing the four Gender Equality Observatories and creation of teaching material- at least, 12 teaching units in open format enabling the development of a subject on Equality once the project was finished. We used the platform Twinspaces to share and carry out activities in a collaborative way among the several participants in the project. The impact was registered in the ongoing Quality Plan, with objective quantitative and qualitative indicators that show its real significance. A great impact is expected on the schools as well as locally, regionally and internationally, on the basis of the different actions that can change the functioning of the schools- above all the Gender Equality Observatory and the Equality Plan- and to this aim, the training of the students, teachers and families, who are expected to be more involved in the school activities, was improved. The relations among the schools and institutions nearby were strengthened, apart from promoting the relations with other schools to disseminate the results through the use of different social networks. To ensure that the project continues, a Sustainability Plan including all the long-term actions was written: functioning of the Gender Equality Observatories, integration of each Equality Plan and use of the teaching units, either as part of the regular subjects or creating a new specific one on equality or including them into the complementary training carried out in the schools.