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GEN – Gender Equality Now, youth exchange Valea Doftanei 2017

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Equality between women and men is one of the European Union’s founding values.  The European Union’s achievements in fostering equality between women and men have helped to change the lives of many European citizens for the better and represent a present concern of the EU by the Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-2019. The Strategic engagement sets out objectives in each of these priority areas and identifies more than 30 concrete actions. It reaffirms commitment to gender mainstreaming: A gender equality perspective will be integrated into all EU policies as well as into EU funding programmes. The Strategic engagement also supports the implementation of the gender equality dimension in the Europe 2020 Strategy.

The activity was a youth exchange that took place in Traisteni village at Louisina Inn, from 5th to 11th of November 2017 for 7 day of activities and the country involved were Romania (as host), Slovakia, Finland, Turkey and Bulgaria. The main aim of the project was to inform and empower local youngsters on how gender equality can be promoted and mainstreamed in local youth projects and develop recommendations on how to ensure gender equality in youth work with young people in disadvantaged neighborhoods.

The project was aimed at local youngsters, active members of youth organizations, pupils from local community who what to be informed and gain experience in implementing the principles of gender equality in exploring further how these principles can be put in practice in youth projects targeted at young people coming from disadvantaged neighborhoods. All applicants were motivated to learn and share their experience / ideas on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in future local projects. They were all potential multipliers of the learning outcomes of the course and in a position to contribute to achieving its objectives. The workshops contributed to personal and social development by developing self-confidence, youth work skills, team-building, active listening, public speaking, conflict management skills, competencies in making young people more active citizen, fostering tolerance and mutual understanding between young people from different social and cultural background.

Here you can see a short movie from the activities and one of the results of the project, the leaflet done by participants during the workshops. 

This project was finaced by Erasmus + Programm.