Gender equality is a fundamental right under the Treaty of Lisbon and a priority policy of the EU. However, further progress must be made in order to achieve real gender equality in the spheres of both professional and private life. The EU has a long way to go before reaching gender equality, according to ‘Gender Equality Index 2020: Key findings for the EU’ it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU. While there has been some significant but uneven progress achieved in advancing women's and girls' rights, no country in the world is on track to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030. Moreover, the health and socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis disproportionately affected women and girls. For example, because a higher proportion of women work informally and in vulnerable sectors, their job loss rate was 1.8 times greater than that of men. In March 2020, the EC presented the new EU gender equality strategy 2020–2025 that builds on the promise of the newly appointed Commission President to strive for a Union of equality, where women and men, in all their diversity, are free to pursue their chosen path in life, with equal opportunities to thrive and to participate in and lead European society. And yet, the employment rate of women is still significantly below that of men; the labour market remains heavily gender segregated, and women tend to be found more often in temporary, part-time or precarious employment. This contributes to significant gender gaps in pay and pensions. Such inequalities have particularly dire consequences for vulnerable groups of women, and those from migrant communities or other minority groups. Closing these gender gaps could generate considerable long-term gains for the EU economy, amounting to as much as 10 % of its gross domestic product (GDP) as reported by the 2050 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Gender related challenges in the education system are an obstacle for economic growth and better career opportunities, especially for women. One of the main challenges is that girls and boys tend to choose subjects according to traditional gender roles. Which leads us to the question of equal economic independence as a prerequisite for women taking full control of their lives, personal freedom and self-realisation. However, progress for women looks like nothing less than an uphill battle. Women persistently experience greater disadvantages in the labour market than men and earn less than men; with progress on closing the gender pay gap painfully slow, the feminisation of poverty continues. The EU was also strongly committed to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDGs, including monitoring three indicators related to gender equality (SDG 5) within the area of employment: the gender employment gap, the gender pay gap and the inactive population due to caring responsibilities. To address this, the EU's new Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III) aimed to accelerate progress on empowering women and girls and safeguard gains made on gender equality during the 25 years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action. However, gender-based violence remained a pervasive issue in the EU, with serious ramifications for women’s lives. Women from minority groups found themselves in particularly vulnerable situations that posed several threats to their physical and psychological integrity. - 1 in 2 women had experienced sexual harassment; - 1 in 3 women had experienced physical and/or sexual violence; - 1 in 5 women had experienced stalking; - 1 in 20 women had been raped; - 95% of victims trafficked for sexual exploitation in the EU were women. In this project, our idea was to connect youngsters from different parts of Europe and involve young people like us on this topic. This was a topic very relevant to us and our partners, and this mobility was a chance for us, the youth in our country, and in our partner's countries, to play an active role in this process of change-making. We wanted youngsters to be able to fight for a cause, to know how to build a physical and digital campaign, and especially to know how they could get involved in a democratic process so that they could contribute to effective change in terms of gender inequality. Equality between women and men was a fundamental value of the EU that we had to take out of the paper and make it happen. Therefore, the project objectives were: O1: to promote and strengthen gender equality; O2: to fight discrimination based on sex; O3: to eliminate violence against women; O4: to raise EU citizens' awareness; O5: to promote the creation of campaigns (online and offline) to fight gender inequality.