The project is set in the frame of 5 years of work on the topics of gender, intersectionality, EuroMediterranean cooperation and antidiscrimination and is strengthening a network of organisations that have been working directly in the promotion of two youth goals, Equality of All Genders and Inclusive Societies. This partnership’s strength is to face gender issues in a deeply intercultural context by approaching the roots of inequality and challenging traditionally constructed gender roles; this process brought to highlight the complexity of gender related topics and minorities, not settling for the surface but willingly digging into all the nuances of gender, beyond a limited binary view, by underlining the similarities in the EuroMediterranean area. This project aims to share, confront and systematize good practices and methods to mainstream a gender-sensitive approach in the EuroMediterranean youth field, keeping in mind the complexity of such an intercultural and interreligious context. The specific objectives are: - to gather and systematize educational methods and practices and rethink them to be included in a framework of advocacy; - to foster an innovative, intersectional view of gender throughout the EuroMediterranean youth field; - to promote intercultural dialogue and promote knowledge about and acceptance of diversity in the EuroMediterranean societies; - to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to respect for gender equity; - to foster a participatory approach in Euromediterranean cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to counter a Eurocentric and neo-colonial approach. The partners have selected staff members that will take part in the project implementation. Regarding experts and Youth Workers they will be selected following the multidisciplinary criteria of the project objective: women empowerment, gender inclusion, youth work practice, advocacy and youth policy at local, national and Euromediterranean level. As for the young people who will be involved in the local phases of the project, the consortium will give preference to youth and volunteers with fewer opportunities. The project foresees 2 Transnational project meetings and 2 mobilities. TPM1 will take place in order to clarify responsibilities and tasks, and start planning the flow of work. TPM2 will be held in the last months of the project, in order to facilitate a coherent dissemination as well as to evaluate the whole project. The 2 mobility activities will definitely bring an added value to the project, since they are an essential step for creating and finalising the two foreseen Intellectual Outputs. The activities will be in the form of seminars, and will first of all provide the space and time for sharing, understanding, testing, adapting and selecting educational experiences, good practices and tools, as well as competences for the staff involved in the project. Non Formal Education methodology combined with several techniques coming from other educational areas, such as art and theatre, will be our main methodological framework. The seminars will enter the project themes in depth, allowing participants to exchange the skills, knowledge and attitude that are needed to acquire and foster a gender sensitive approach in an intercultural and interreligious dimension, learning from one another, in coherence with the principles already mentioned. The main results expected from the project are a video advocacy campaign and the production of a good practices manual.These two outputs are in line with the underlined needs emerged from the partner organizations involved, namely raising awareness and giving more visibility to the gender issues, while facilitating the analysis of the complexity of the issue and mainstreaming a gender sensitive and inclusive approach in the EuroMediterranean area. The project aims to have an impact at local, national and EuroMediterranean level. To reach it, the role of and the coordination with the associated partners is fundamental as they play an important role as multipliers of the impact itself. On a local and national level, this project will help to create new partnerships with Ministries and Departments where partner organisations can develop regular educational programs that include the project topics, in order to outreach more beneficiaries in local communities. The impact of the advocacy will furthermore foster the application of gender and intercultural sensitive approach at a youth policy level on a local, regional and national dimension. On an international level, the dissemination of project results will be produced in all partners' languages plus English to guarantee an effective impact and build structural change.
The project’s specific objectives were: - to gather and systematize educational methods and practices, in order to guarantee an improved capacity and know-how of the organisations active in youth work, particularly related to the competence of civic engagement and networking; - to foster an innovative, intersectional view of gender throughout the EuroMed youth field that keeps in consideration and valorizes the intercultural and interreligious complexity; - to promote intercultural dialogue, promote knowledge about and acceptance of diversity in the EuroMed societies, that contribute to facilitate social inclusion of youth, especially minorities; - to reinforce the response of education and training systems and youth policies to one of the main challenges of today's world, respect for gender equity, through the development of civic and intercultural competences; - to foster a participatory approach in EuroMed cooperation, enhancing an equal exchange of contributions and competences, in order to counter a Eurocentric and neo-colonial approach and work on the capacity building in regards to the outreach and inclusion of young people with migrant backgrounds.
The project was designed as the conclusion process of 5 years work on topics of gender, intersectionality, EuroMediterranean cooperation and antidiscrimination, started in 2015. The need that the consortium wanted to agrees was to face gender issues in an intercultural context by approaching the roots of inequality and challenging traditional gender roles; this process brought us to highlight the complexity of gender related topics and minorities in the Euromed cooperation, going beyond a limited binary view and being stuck by local situations during international youth project. After experiencing this approach overtime, we intended to systematize results from the dimension of educational choices to advocacy for youth policies. In response to institutions that are supposed to be promoters of a gender-sensitive approach and yet stuck on a simplistic, binary view of gender, this project aimed to share and systematize good practices to mainstream a gender-sensitive approach in the EuroMed youth field, keeping in mind the complexity of such an intercultural and interreligious context.