Young people from three EU countries (Italy, Croatia, Spain) have found that in order to expand the scope of their voluntary work need knowledge and skills on the useful use of ICT technologies. Even though most of them use it on a daily basis, we’ve found that they are not being used outside of personal use as a tool for social change or career advancement. Since partner organizations use ICT technologies in their work and provide a great deal of information and advice to young people about sexual orientation, sexual identity, safe sex and reproductive rights through new technologies, we have designed a project that will enable group of 5 young people (1mentor and 4participants aged from 18 to 30) from each country to have opportunity to connect and get new knowledge in ICT technologies (making infographics). This knowledge would then be used in the preparation of activities related to informing the general public about safe sex, sexual identity and sexual orientation, aimed primarily at young people. Croatia, Italy and Spain are in the same level with sexual education. There is no systematic implementation of education for youth and it is still taboo in public. On the other side young people are then left to learn about sexuality from internet and other media, which is mostly misleading. As we are all part of European union, and we face same problems, we will join together in order to share experiences and act together toward positive change. This will also contribute to rising awareness of EU citizenship among participants. Group of participants will make small research of sexual education in their countries (three researchers- one in each country), publish results, and make infographics with informations in the field of sexual education in order to inform their peers on the topic which is taboo in all three countries. The final event in each country will show to the public what was done during the project. Participants will have support of mentors, but will carry out planned activities by themselves. We will include Blended learning - one 7 days training in Croatia including topic of sexual education and 4 online sessions with topic of how to make research, how to make infographics and how to use platforms for creations of infographics. General objective: Raise awareness and informing among youth in the field of sex education and providing them support in taking initiative. Aims: To create international network of young people from partner countries who will act together in informing young people about safe sex, gender identities and sexual orientations, and in sharing knowledge, experiences and examples of good practices. Rise awareness among young people of safe sex, gender identities, gender equality and sexual orientation. Straighten civil society and promote active participation among youth. Empower and support young people to carry out their own initiatives. Increase digital skills of young people.

Three groups of young women decided to carry out Transnational youth initiative because they are all facing the same problems in their country (Italy, Croatia, Austria) – gender-inequality on the labour market. The project name Sisterality is a mix between Sister and Solidarity and leads already to the purpose of the youth initiative. With this project we wanted to create an international network of girls and young women to promote their employability, to encourage them for labour mobility and to create awareness about the topic “gender-inequality on the labour market” through a campaign. Our target group are girls and young women who had already suffered from gender-inequality on the labour market. So our participants are unemployed or in a precarious working conditions e.g. fixed termed contracts, seasonal jobs, working on projects, low income, no protection against dismissal and people. The participants of the Transnational Youth Initiative were between 20-30 years. Every group have had a coach. The initiative combined workshops, and organization of activities for citizens, sexism and gender equality topic with activism and use of ITC. Through this initiative we wanted to raise awareness of the public in our local communities and include citizens in our actions. Through non formal learning and organization of activities we develop knowledge that will possibly be helpful to improve our employability on labor market. Every group of each country had 4 female participants and one coach for each group. It was possible that more than 4 participant per group are included.General objectives:Rise awareness of sexism and gender based discrimination on labor market in society and increasing the employability of girls and young women on the labour market. Specific objectives:- Create a network of girls and young woman from EU countries (Italy, Austria, and Croatia) to work together on promotion of gender-equality on the labour market. Share our experiences about the topic, examples of good practices. - Gain knowledge on women human rights, sexism, laws of gender based discrimination at EU level- Empower civil citizenship and encourage active participation - Increase employment opportunities of girls and young woman - Developing a set of skills and knowledge: entrepreneurial skills, digital competences (use of ITC), language skillsWe have organized different activities in which we used skills and knowledges gained on workshops. Workshpos were partly different in each country because of the needs of each participant group, and local context. We have organized workshops to the following different topics:- Social entrepreneurship (team working, activities organizing,how to turn idea to reality, how to write an EU or Erasmus+ project)- Digital competences (use of digital tools such as: how to make a web platform and blog, how to communicate via social networks, how to make podcast show, radio show, video and photography)- Women human rights and gender inequality on the labour market in context of the EUOrganization of public events and other activities:- Creating social media platforms (facebook pages, blog, instagram page) where we informed the public about gender inequality on the labour market and women human rights in an EU context - Movie nights, round tables, discussions, podcast, editing Wikipedia marathon, awareness raising campaignRegarding the campaign we have achieved following results:- Project has contributed to raising awareness of gender-inequality on a local, regional and national and European level.- Active citizenship is empowered, and citizens are motivated to give their own contribution for social change.- Young people are encouraged for social engagement and activism.- The network of young european women is created.On a personal level the participants gained some skills and made improvement in: - Digital Skills - Leading Skills - Activist Skills - Creating networks - Entrepreneurial Skills - More positive attitudes about EU and democratic values- Knowledge of human women rights in the EU context- Language Skills- Intercultural Skills

In the society of knowledge, life chances of people are increasingly conditioned to educational credentials. Accordingly, the OCDE and the European Commission identify the access and the end of elementary school as a way for social inclusion. However, early school leaving is a common problem in many European countries. Although the vast majority of European countries have implemented strategies to minimize leaving in elementary school, the changes seem not to be enough. Thus, an educational system thought to be inclusive and equative cannot allow the normalisation of today’s percentages of early school leaving.In this context, the general aim of CROSSROADS project is to develop a Toolkit for teachers gathering innovative methodologies, strategies and good practices aimed at reducing early school leaving caused by the impact of the intersection of different axes of inequality (gender, origin, social class, ethnicity, sexuality…), in the period between Compulsory and Post-Compulsory Secondary Education.The main activities of the project are: an Internal training (which will allow the partners to test methodologies and to exchange learnings and experiences); Focus Groups with Teachers and Focus Groups with Youth at risk of early school leaving (in which they will discuss the first draft of the Toolkit to guarantee that it takes into account their perspectives); the Exchange of Good Practices Seminar (which will include presentation of good practices, roundtables and field visits); and a Main Dissemination Activity (in Belgium) and National Dissemination Activities.The main result of the project is the Toolkit for teachers, gathering innovative methodologies, strategies and good practices to prevent early school leaving, from an intersectional perspective and taking into account the voice and experience of youth at risk of early school leaving. The Toolkit will be available in the project and the partners’ websites and it will be published under a Creative Commons licence to promote its use and dissemination. CROSSROADS targets three types of participants. The first one is teaching staff committed to prevent early school leaving. They will participate in Focus Groups carried out in the four participating countries (Spain, Poland, Croatia and Belgium), apart from attending the Exchange of Good Practices Seminar and the dissemination activities (100 participants in total). The second target is youth at risk of early school leaving due to their position in the intersection of different axes of inequality (gender, class, origin, sexuality and urban/rural). This target will participate as well in Focus Groups carried out in each participating country and will be invited to participate in the Seminar and the dissemination activities (150 participants). The third target are other stakeholders committed to the prevention of early school leaving, like Public Administrations, NGOs, experts and Media. They will be invited to the Seminar and the dissemination activities (80 participants).As a result of the project, teaching staff will have a Toolkit with innovative methodologies and best practices based on the experience of organizations working on the field and taking into account the voices of youth from groups at risk of early school leaving. Local and regional education authorities will have training material aimed at preventing early school leaving that they can disseminate to schools and Faculties of Education will be able to use the material in the training of future teaching staff. The main objective of the dissemination strategy of the project is to promote the distribution and use of these materials as much as possible, which will also be disseminated in international and national seminars held within the project framework, as well as in the distribution of newsletters and dissemination. Content on various social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and mobile device applications.The expected impact of the project in the long term is: to contribute to increase the visibility of the needs of different social groups at risk of early school leaving in the definition of specific methodologies for educational career guidance from an intersectional perspective; to increase the awareness and training of teaching staff regarding inequalities in education; to strengthen the transnational network of entities that are committed to prevent early school leaving; and to improve the knowledge and competences among teaching staff in European countries, through the dissemination of the Toolkit.

"<< Background >>Choosing a career, teenage girls often reject masculinized occupations (ie those in which there are more men than women, or are considered ""masculine"" in the social consciousness). This applies to both vocational and higher education. Girls do not take these occupations into account, despite the fact that they are in greater demand on the labor market and are associated with better wages, as research shows.This is due to the stereotypes young women encounter from an early age. Due to their beliefs about their own abilities and predispositions (deepened by the formal education system), they have a very limited career path.Young women, after graduating from education, decide to take up a profession that requires them to give up one of the social roles assigned to women (responsibility for running a home, raising children, etc., caring for parents, etc.)<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to create tools and work out a working method for youth workers and popularize them in order to encourage girls and young women to work in masculinized professions (i.e. those considered stereotypically performed by men), and thus - to improve their situation on the market work.<< Implementation >>3 training sessions and the development of 4 intellectual results have been planned, which will allow for:- mutual learning of partners, acquisition of new competences and exchange of good practices- preparation of a city game with the necessary materials- dissemination activities so that as many people as possible benefit from the project results.<< Results >>By analyzing the research results and talking to our partners about the situation in their countries and their experience with the above topic, we want to:-increase the interest of girls in masculinized professions- spread the belief that the profession has no gender-create a method for a ""safe space"" (how to create conditions for working with girls so that they feel safe and thus are not afraid to try their hand and break the stereotypes that have been planted in their heads)-create a universal tool - an urban game - that can be adapted to your needs, but which will respond to the needs identified by us"

This project’s overall objective is to raise the standards of reporting while making them more gender sensitive and strengthen the human capacity of the ngo’s and their partnership with media in the partner countries. This is part of the process of enhancing democracy, good governance and human rights in the country while promoting professionalism and editorial independence.The project’s main specific objective, is to provide a group reporters from Serbia, Estonia, Italy, Czech republic, Macedonia, Croatia and Bulgaria with a long training program that will equip them with knowledge, skills and contacts aimed at enabling them to report on gender issues in a gender sensitive matter.Speaking from experience a lot of information especially concerning promotion of gender equality, promotion of successful women and/or their businesses are as not as much visible as they can be and not always young people especially those with female, minority or poor background are informed about the progress or need of progress and equality that are going on in their municipalities or cities or even in Europe. Another aspect is that media are a key part in creating public opinion and therefore a wrong message can lead into creating prejudices and stereotypes but also a right one can assist into fighting discrimination. The idea for this project comes from the need to encourage young people, especially women, to exchange different points of view and experience how to use media as a tool especially when working with youth and on topics as gender based discrimination and marginalization and in promotion of gender equality.Key element of this project is use of media as a tool to reach the goals for which youth women activists fight for – Positive change towards Gender Equality and it’s promotion. The possibilities are here, but it is up to everybody according to the needs and the cultural surrounding to be able to use them. The project will empower the participants to make their projects/activities more visible to the public but also will give them concrete tools on how to address them for promotion of gender equality and be gender sensitive towards their target group by using different media, with special aspect on online media. Part form this project will be creating of pubic opinion but also how to send the right message to the right group and guide them into gender sensitiveness and equality.