We Act -Resources for improving Gender Equality based on applied Entrepreneurial competencies Into Action

Aims & objectives

The objectives of the project are:

1. Provide a safe space to raise awareness about sex and genders, gender equality and equity, and how gender is related to violence.

2.Offer practical tools to improve social employability and entrepreneurial skills in projects that support gender equality.

3. Support the professional and personal development of young workers and youth trainers.

3. Provide information and applicability on the Entrecomp and Digcomp competency framework.

4. Publicize the priorities Horizon 2020, Sustainable Development Goals; and develop social inclusion initiatives in these areas.

5.Provide useful tools and methods to use with the young people with whom you work, in international work with young people and within the framework of ERASMUS + and the European Solidarity Corps.

6. Into Action: Explore and develop new initiatives for social entrepreneurship and employability in youth work.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Participants on this project are youth workers, current and future, in the development of specific skills, focusing on the development of resources for gender diversity, and acquisition of skills that contribute to improving quality of life through social entrepreneurship.
Participating countries: Greece, Lithuania, Netherlands, Albania, Armenia, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Training methods used & main activities

The activities consisted in dynamic and creative workshops, which have aim to raise the awareness of diversity, gender, equality, and promotion of social entrepreneurship.
The activities will be mainly for the education of youth workers trainers and facilitators using, the method of non-formal education. Since the project is about also the empowerment of intellectual capacities, through educational process, the methodology matches the objectives of the project and activities itself.
The activities of the project are complexed so it starts from the basics general and very specific, meaning that we are starting with the basics and the terms that are introduction to the individual points of all the elements mentioned above.

Outcomes of the activity

26 trained participants
12 initiatives put into action, at local and European level
12 organizations creating a network based on this theme
24 participants with new ideas and tools to implement projects in the form of a European network

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Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

5 days full time Cofacilitator

I worked on this training for 5 days as a full time trainer.