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GenQuality

2019-2-RO01-KA105-0642272019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: RO|IT|ES|PT|DK|PL · Grant: €13,229
Gender equality / equal opportunitiesInclusion - equityEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

By implementing the GenQ project we aimed to raise awareness about gender inequality and gender discrimination, encouraging the fostering of an equal society where every individual despite their gender or sexual orientation is included. One of the main objectives of the GenQ was to fight against gender and sexual discrimination. Trought this project, the team who proposed and developed as well as was responsible for the implementation of the activities, wanted to address the need of tolerance among youth encouraging initiatives for equal opportunities, non-discrimination and social inclusion. One of the objectives of the project where to provide information about the nature of gender and sexual discrimination, gender issues and concepts regarding the LGBTI+ community to 45 participants coming from Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain during the youth exchange of the GenQ Project. During the activities of the youth exchange trough the participants involvement and their learning outcomes we also had the objectives to create the Manual of Accepting. This had been created as a leaflet that includes anti-discrimination concepts and attitudes as well as methods which to combat gender and sexual discrimination based on the participants activities which have been developed during the GenQ youth exchange. The third objective of the GenQ project was the creation are 5 social experiment videos and 1 interview with the participants during the youth exchange which to be used in the dissemination phase of the project which to be accessed by 200 and the individuals who would be interested in gender inequality, the issues of the LGBTI+ community and generally non-discrimination concepts related to gender and sexual orientation. The fourth objective of the project was consisting of sharing of ideas and methods based on previous experiences of participants for fighting against gender discrimination and to stimulate the involvement in social initiatives which to foster gender equality inclusion of sexual minorities and social acceptance on local and international level. The fifth objective of GenQ project was consisting of creation of cooperation on local, national and international level through the network which had been created by the partners and participants who have been included in the activities of the project. During the project the 45 youngsters from Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain have had the chance and opportunity to be informed on the issues and nature of gender and sexual discrimination in the participating countries and in the European Union by sharing their researchers, experiences and knowledge on the topic. The activities of the project were created to foster the sharing of concepts which to help civic empowerment and encourage involvement in activities regarding equality on local and national level in the partners and participants communities. Given the ongoing restriction of the Covid-19 pandemic the project has been implemented as a virtual activity. Given this, certain activities which have been planned in the initial writing of this project needed to be adapted to the online environment. All of the activities have been carried out using tools and a non-formal learning methods which can be implemented virtually. For raising awareness on the topic of the project outside of the participants and the partners there have been adapted certain activities in order not to hinder the dissemination. Given this the 5 social experiments which have been planned to be carried out during the youth exchange have been adapted for the participants to carry out into there are local communities. These activities have been documented through 8 videos used to disseminate the project. The videos and other materials created during the project have been published on the Facebook and Instagram page, the YouTube channel of the project and other public platform of partners and participants where interested people in the topic of GenQ could access them. We have also had as an objective to promote the Erasmus+ programme, non-formal education and the organizations to participants. This has been achieved through the presentations of the Erasmus+ programme and partner organizations during the. Trought the GenQ project we also aimed to facilitate for participants to enhance their soft skills such as public speaking, teamwork, decision-making, time management, critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, communication and leadership, which had been achieved through all of the activities of the project. The countries and organizations which participated in this project have greatly contributed to shedding a light on issues and concepts regarding the LGBTI+ community and gender discrimination. The diversity of social views of each of the participating countries background regarding the topic of the project head given great diversity and important knowledge and information to participants.

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