“Let´s Make the Invisible Visible” is planned to be a three-year long project implemented by five organisations in the form of a strategic partnership, namely by GIC NORA (Czech Republic), Peregrina (Austria), TRANSFER Slovensko (Slovakia), Fundacja Kobieca (Poland) and Romanian Center for European Policies (Romania). Organisations dealing with women's issues and gender equality from the Central European region and Balkans have come together to tackle a very topical issue of women facing multiple discrimination in our European society. The project is composed of three parts that are inseparably connected. In the first phase partner organisations are to learn from one another. The staff of participating organisations will increase their competences as they learn about best practices the other partner organisations have been using in their work with multiple discriminated women (such as Roma, migrant or old women). This exchange of best practices is to contribute to capacity building of the involved organisations, it will make their educational offer more differentiated, interesting and qualified. As all partners involved know from their everyday practice, formal education methods are not sufficient and adequate tools when working with women facing multiple discrimination. Instead, means of empowerment of vulnerable groups of women have to be applied. Thus participatory coaching methods and drama techniques will be looked into and tested with the target group in all the countries involved with the aim to identify methods empowering and enabling women who are discriminated against on multiple grounds. One handbook on innovative techniques to be used in adult education and counselling of marginalised women will be prepared together with 5 webinars dealing with selected innovative techniques and methods. In the closing phase of the project examples of role models among marginalised groups of women will be identified and new social media tools will be used to present them not only to their peers, but also to the general public. Video portraits of 5 women representing all participating countries will serve as well as a tool for distorting stereotypes connected to migrant, Roma or old women.
The aim of the project was to increase the competence of the staff of the partner organisations in working with discriminated women. The workers were introduced to best practices that other partner organisations use when working with more discriminated women (e.g. Roma, migrant or elderly women). This exchange of best practices contributed to building the capacity of the participating organisations, making their training offer more differentiated, interesting and qualified. Mutual education in methods that can serve as a means of empowering vulnerable groups of women was also disseminated through the Handbook and Webinars to all other workers with groups of multiply discriminated persons. The aim was to involve the target group in this developing and testing of coaching and drama techniques in a participatory way, which helped to identify whether the methods empowered multiply discriminated women. However, the biggest aim of the project was to raise awareness of the phenomenon of multiple discrimination and the specific learning needs of adults, as well as to break down stereotypes and prejudices associated with marginalised women.
The problem of multiple discrimination is inherent in all EU countries. As such it has to be fought and tackled at local, regional, national and European levels. Best practices in EU countries are to be identified and joint solutions to the pressing problem of multiple discriminated women are to be looked for. At the same time, however, multiply discriminated persons have specific educational needs and it is therefore necessary to work with them in a way that is as effective as possible. The aim of this project was to develop, test and improve techniques and methods for adult education or working with groups of multiply discriminated persons, especially women. And then to share these techniques with professionals who work with multiply discriminated persons.