Youth Path to Equality is a transnational youth project involving three partner organisations from Spain, Italy and Germany and two informal youth organisations from Madrid and Berlin. The project will be implemented locally in each of the localities where the partner organisations are located, but a transnational coordination will be carried out. Moreover, the dissemination activities will allow to have a scope far beyond the localities of the organisations, having a national and European impact. The main objective of this project is to combat gender inequality and gender-based violence suffered by young people, and to do so from the perspective of non-formal education. The project will last 20 months and will be developed between October 2020 and june 2022. This project directly addresses gender inequality in youth organizations and works on two levels: 1.Transformation of organizational structures towards a more inclusive model, which puts life and care at the centre of organizations, paying attention to the balance between care, processes and objectives. 2. Non-formal education programme for the attitudinal development of young people for the acquisition of values of equality and against gender violence. In this sense, two main blocks of activities will be developed at the local level in the three countries: - Activities for organisational transformation, for 8 months. - Educational activities towards gender equality, for 8 months. These activities will be coordinated among the partner countries and improvements will be implemented after the common evaluations. It is also proposed the elaboration of two intellectual results that would bring a high added value to the project since they will allow the development of the applied methodologies in a complete and exportable way so that the impact of the project will be high. O1: Methodological guide for the transition of youth organisations towards gender equality O2: Gen toolkit. Non-Formal Education Programme for Equality in the Youth Field. To ensure the high impact of this project, several dissemination activities will be carried out, which respond to a defined plan and among them are included three Multiplier Events, to be carried out each one in each participating country. These events will mainly serve for the dissemination of the intellectual results at national level and will take place in the last month of the project. Finally, for the correct coordination of the project, it will be necessary to carry out three transnational meetings between the coordinating teams of the partner entities, which will take place at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the project. In addition, a joint training activity will be carried out for the staff of the entities involved, at the beginning of the project, to favour the exchange of knowledge between the entities, focusing on organisational development (Spain), gender work with youth (Italy) and innovation and inclusion methodologies (Germany). A Swiss entity, FAIR'ACT, is invited to participate in this Strategic Partnership. Its participation will be accepted and financially supported by the Swiss agency MOVETIA. If accepted, it will participate in the same way as the other partners in the project in terms of implementation of local activities, coordination meetings, training activity, and will also generate a multiplier event in Switzerland to disseminate the results of this project, in case the Swiss agency decides to finance it.
In general, with the project we have collaborated to PREVENT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE ERADICATION of gender-based violence in the field of youth in Europe, through the following specific objectives: TRANSFORM YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS TOWARDS NON-PATRIARCHAL PRACTICES: . Creating a Guide that proposes a clear, original and practical process . Generating a tool for diagnosing the daily practices of inequality DEVELOP A TRANSVERSAL AND SPECIFIC METHODOLOGY FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EQUALITY . Creating a SET OF CARDS to generate awareness and transformation towards equality among young people . Developing skills for the evaluation and diagnosis of gender inequality and violence in young people, and for educational work that includes diversity and listens to all voices INVOLVE YOUTH AS ACTIVE AGENTS AGAINST GENDER INEQUALITY. . Identifying daily personal practices and attitudes that imply inequality and microviolence. . Recognizing social structures that imply inequality . Developing a critical attitude and acquiring concrete tools to fight against gender violence.
The project responds to the need to address gender inequality and gender violence in the field of youth. Gender inequality is one of the most present and transversal forms of violence throughout the world. The patriarchal system in which we live is so deep that its dynamics of inequality permeate all areas, including social and youth organizations. Adolescence and youth is the moment in which people build our identity and learn from the different models that surround us, being very exposed to hegemonic models of the media, music, series, cinema, advertising, etc. models that continue to show patriarchal gender stereotypes and that lead to gender violence continuing to be perpetuated both through daily violence, as well as more serious violence, sexual violence, physical aggression, murder, etc. The patriarchal model that puts productive work first penetrates the whole of society, including our way of making organizations. To be real examples for the youth with whom we work, it is also necessary to review our own ways of doing things.