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ABC of sex education

2022-3-DE04-KA152-YOU-0000969772022Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: DE|FR|PT|ES|EL|TR · Grant: €34,346
Physical and mental health, well-beingPromoting LGBT+ equalityPromoting gender equality

Objectives

The project aimed to provide participants with accurate information on sexual and reproductive health, dispel myths related to sexuality, develop life skills such as critical thinking, communication and self-development, ability to ask questions, open mindedness and respect for themselves and others, positive attitude toward their sexual and reproductive health. Participants had the chance to acquire networking skills and immediately put them in use, as well as practice and enhance their creative & teamwork skills during the project. We focussed on creating a safe environment in which participants could formulate and speak out their opinions, engage in open discussion and exchange experiences. This allowed them to see the greater context and potential to apply new ideas in their work and improve and enrich their non-formal education initiatives. Our priority was to network and explore possible ways of cooperation, creating working groups and joint initiatives in future projects. This enabled enhancing the international dimension of partner organizations and promotion of cooperation and mobility between participating countries. The project compared how these topics are addressed in participants societies; discovering religion, culture and gender differences; consequences of discrimination based on stereotyping; how national dances portrait sexuality; finding out how sex is seen in media and how it manipulates our perspectives of beauty; self-reflecting on sexual identity and values etc. This was done by discussions, interactive games, study visits, role-plays, observing the local society, workshops, video materials, dancing, visualization and presentations. Specific objectives of the project were: - Develop and promote solidarity and tolerance in accordance to European citizenship priorities; - Foster mutual understanding between youth in different countries; - Improve the ways participants can tackle sexuality-related problems; - Form healthy and positive attitudes (self-respect, tolerance, responsibility); - Gain critical awareness about media and understand how the perspectives are formed; - Widen the horizon about sexuality; - Encourage youth to issue the topic of sex in the society and be a healthy role model; - Promote cooperation in the youth field; - Anti-discrimination work with the focus on homophobia; - Inclusion and empowerment of young people. The participants had the opportunity to acquire a more in-depth perspective thanks to peer-to-peer learning and a variety of cultures - a priceless value that is hard to receive in school.

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