Partners & experts meetings

15-17 Sepember 2022, Göteborg, Sweden

The main goal of international training is to provide constructive knowledge and skills on gender equality in the education system to ensure early intervention in the perpetuation of prejudices and stereotypes.

On the first international training we will improve youth and educators competences and gain new skills on gender equality, pay gap, equal treatment, family models, and gender roles questions and allow participants to be multipliers. Partners meeting we will the begging of development of Educational Toolkit and Web resource. Also and experts will have a discussion about impact of gender equality and equal treatment in policy making, social life and interrelation with formal, non-formal education and learning processes in relation with SDG themes.

Meeting will based on norm criticism, 4R and active participation methods and it’s dedicated for active young people & educators. Training will provide necessary basic skills and knowledge of students and educators on gender equality and discover link between power relations and norms. We will combine norm criticism with other tools and methods (GET, the Staircase Models, or the 4R). Also we will conduct a meeting of partners and experts who will work on development educational toolkit and web-resource as main practical outcome of the project.

Agenda

15th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden
Arrival and working day I – Venue: Burgårdens Gymnasium (Skånegatan 20, 412 51 Göteborg) and Zoom
12.00 – 12.45 Arrival in School and Lunch
12.45 – 13.00 Meeting with project partner’s teams (Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Estonia)
13.00 – 13.45 Meeting of youth with each other and discussions in groups: on Why we need gender equality?
14.00 – 15.30 Workshop “Gender Journey at school” (stereotype game, values game, youth participation and engagement discussions, sharing best practices etc.)
15.30 – 16.00 Summary

16th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden Working day II – Venue: Burgårdens Gymnasium (Södra vägen 54, Göteborg)
10:00 – 10:30 Introduction into Gender Equality and Equal treatment questions and documents – Reet Laja, The Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre
10:30 – 11:00 The situation of gender equality in Nordic states – Laura Hagström, Ekvalita, Finland
11:00 – 11:30 Norm criticism & 3R method presentation – Malin Gustavsson, Ekvalita, Finland
11:30 – 12:00 Reducing gender inequality and the role of young people in achievement of SDGs – Ivan Vasilevskikh and Alejandra Cordero Hansen – Copenhagen Business Academy students
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Meedia and Gender equality – Barbi Pilvre Strongard, Tallinn University Researcher
14:30 – 14:45 Gender equality and equal treatment in education: from theory into practice – Susanne Kallanvaara, Burgårdens Gymnasium
14:45 – 15:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering of materials for toolkit)
15:00 – 15:45 Gender segregation in education and the labor market in example of Finland – Virve Savoila, Ekvalita, Finland
14:45 – 15:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering and production of materials for toolkit)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 16:45 Gender equality and equal treatment through license of civil society – Mashuda Rahman, The Salvation Army, Finland
16:45 – 17:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering and production of materials for toolkit)
17:00 – 17:30 Summary and follow up activities
19:00 Dinner in the Hotel and Free time

17th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden Working day III – Venue: Apple Hotel (Torpavallsgatan 6, 416 73 Gothenburg, Sweden)
10:00 – 11:00 How to decrease gender-based violence in our countries: at home, at school, at work (discussion in the working groups)
11.00 – 12.00 Summary and conclusions by youth and experts Departure

Experts

Susanne Kallanvaara, graduated as upper secondary teacher at Göteborg University in Sweden in 1984 and has a vast experience of teaching all levels of Swedish for immigrants up to university level. Currently employed at Burgårdens Gymnasium in Göteborg.

Ivan Vassilivskikh has worked in international NGOs for the past years. He believes in an equal and inclusive society in every aspect of life.

Alejandra Cordero Hansen

Malin Gustavsson has worked for nine years as an expert on equality and diversity issues. She runs her own growing company called Ekvalita. Gustavsson’s passion for working in an interactive and pioneering way has made her a respected thinker, lecturer and process developer.

Tricia Cleland Silva, PhD, is a senior lecturer, writer, entrepreneur and mother of two. Her area of expertise is leadership, management and DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) with a special focus on women and girls. Over the last 15 years, she has taught courses on gender and continues to develop educational materials on inclusion and empowerment through storytelling. She recently co-authored a book “Making sense of work through collaborative storytelling: building narratives during organisational change” and gave a TEDx talk in 2021 about meaningful inclusion at work through stories.

Laura Rajala is an expert on human, women, and children rights. Laura helps people from disadvantaged areas and with complicated backgrounds, refugees, migrants, and people with special needs to care for their law and social problems. She organizes conference and experts meetings, runs workshops, training, seminars and information days.

Reet Laja work in the Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre.
She has long-term experience in preparing strategies and development plans and analysis consulting, adult training and project management consulting. Application of the mentoring method in both the business and non – profit sectors. Consultation on work-life balance, reconciling work and family life, gender equality in companies, gender budgeting.

Barbi Pilvre is an Estonian journalist, lecturer and politician. She was a member of XII and XIII Riigikogu.

Vassili Golikov has worked with SSCW since 1995, coordinating many Youth and Children programmes on education for sustainable development and youth-led development and empowerment. He’s worked closely with various different governmental and non governmental organisations and international organisations to support youth working on intercultural issues.

Project meeting results:

Conducted training on gender equality and collected materials for gender journey toolkit, suggestion for
education institutions and web-resource;
Summary of the training, materials and project overview you will find out on www.genderjourney.eu

Youth & Experts meetings will give an opportunity to systematise the bits and pieces of knowledge on gender-responsive education and facilitate process of establishing educational toolkit on gender equality a guidelines for the youth organisations and educational institutions.
During Youth and Experts meeting, the participants met together to continue developing educational gender journedy toolkit, discuss the results of workshops, develop web-ressource and concentrate on sharing existing resources and proposals for the International Conference. Additionally to that a separate education training part will be organised for youngsters.

18-20 October in Copenhagen, Denmark

Meeting will based on norm criticism, 4R and active participation methods and it’s dedicated for active young people & educators. Training Ii part will provide necessary basic skills and knowledge of students and educators on gender equality and discover link between power relations and norms. We will combine norm criticism with other tools and methods (GET, the Staircase Models, or the 4R). Also we will conduct a meeting of partners and experts who will work on developing educational toolkits and web-resource as main practical outcome of the project.
Key themes: gender equality, pay gap, equal treatment, family models, and gender roles questions.

Agenda

17th of October 2022 – All day arrival, registration and check in
17.00 – 18.00 Meeting with partners and young people, sharing own expectration about the meeting and own experiences (at the Hotel)
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at Dallevalle (Axeltorv 4)

18th of October 2022 – Working meeting Day I
10.00 – 10.30 Official opening & Project overview (Working agenda and useful materials) – Ivan Vasilevskikh and Annamarie Balle
11.00 – 12.30 Working part I (Toolkit + guidelines development for institutions) – Vassili Golikov, Peace Child Estonia
Each working group is replaying on the questions and proposing content:
Step 1: Define your audience
Step 2: Plan your content
Step 3: Determine content presentation format
Step 4: Develop your content (analizy, reseaarch, etc)
Step 5: Gather materials that work in your countries.
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch at Ankara (Krystalgade 8-10, 1172 KBH K)
13.30 – 15.00 Working part II (Gender Equality in Educational Institutes: How Institutes can be more Gender neutral) – Susanne Kallanvaara
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00 Working part III (Toolkit + Web-resource editing ) – Laura Maria Rajala, Femina
17.00 – 17.30 Presentation of I working day results and summary of day – by all participants
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at Dallevalle (Axeltorv 4)

19th of October 2022 – Working meeting Day II
10.00 – 12.30 Working part I (Training: Equality in schools and educational institutions) – Vassili Golikov, Peace Child Estonia
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch at Ankara (Krystalgade 8-10, 1172 KBH K)
13.30 – 15.00 Working part II (Toolkit + guidelines development for institutions) – All participants
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.00 Working part III (Toolkit + Web-resource editing ) – Laura Maria Rajala, Femina
17.00 – 17.30 Presentation of results and summary of day
19.00 – 20.00 Dinner at Dallevalle (Axeltorv 4)

20th of October 2022 – Presentation of result and follow up activities
10.00 – 11.00 Presentation of working groups results for educational toolkit and webpage update
11.00 – 12.00 Presentation of educational toolkit layout and core parts of it
12.00 – 13.00 Summary of the I youth & experts meeting and updating the follow up activities for November 2022 in Estonia.
13.00 – 14.00 Departure

Experts

Annamarie Balle

Jeanne Bau-madsen

Anna-Liza Starkova

Laura Rajala

15-18 November 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia

The main goal of meeting is to provide constructive knowledge and skills on gender equality in the education system to ensure early intervention in the perpetuation of prejudices and stereotypes. During Youth and Experts meeting, the participants met together to continue developing educational gender journey toolkit, discuss the results of workshops, develop web-resource and concentrate on sharing existing resources and proposals for the International Conference. Additionally to that a separate education training part will be organised for youngsters.
Meeting was based on norm criticism, 4R and active participation methods and it’s dedicated for active young people & educators. Meeting was deepen already existing basic skills and knowledge of students and educators on gender equality and discover link between power relations and norms. We will combine norm criticism with other tools and methods.
Key themes: gender equality, pay gap, equal treatment, family models, and gender roles questions.

Agenda

15th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden
Arrival and working day I Venue: Burgårdens Gymnasium (Skånegatan 20, 412 51 Göteborg) and Zoom
12.00 – 12.45 Arrival in School and Lunch
12.45 – 13.00 Meeting with project partner’s teams (Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Estonia)
13.00 – 13.45 Meeting of youth with each other and discussions in groups: on Why we need gender equality?
14.00 – 15.30 Workshop “Gender Journey at school” (stereotype game, values game, youth participation and engagement discussions, sharing best practices etc.)
15.30 – 16.00 Summary

16th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden
Working day II – Venue: Burgårdens Gymnasium (Södra vägen 54, Göteborg)
10:00 – 10:30 Introduction into Gender Equality and Equal treatment questions and documents – Reet Laja, The Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre
10:30 – 11:00 The situation of gender equality in Nordic states Laura Hagström, Ekvalita, Finland
11:00 – 11:30 Norm criticism & 3R method presentation – Malin Gustavsson, Ekvalita, Finland
11:30 – 12:00 Reducing gender inequality and the role of young people in achievement of SDGs – Ivan Vasilevskikh and Alejandra Cordero Hansen – Copenhagen Business Academy students
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Gender equality and equal treatment in education: from theory into practice – Susanne Kallanvaara, Burgårdens Gymnasium and Lena Torquato Liden, NGO ÖGAT
14:45 – 15:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering and production of materials for toolkit)
15:00 – 15:45 Gender segregation in education and the labor market in example of Finland – Virve Savoila, Ekvalita, Finland
14:45 – 15:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering and production of materials for toolkit)
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 16:45 Gender equality and equal treatment through license of civil society – Mashuda Rahman, The Salvation Army, Finland
16:45 – 17:00 Discussion in working groups (Gathering and production of materials for toolkit)
17:00 – 17:30 Summary and follow up activities
19:00 Dinner in the Hotel and Free time

17th of September 2022, Göteborg, Sweden
Working day III – Venue: Apple Hotel (Torpavallsgatan 6, 416 73 Gothenburg, Sweden)
10:00 – 11:00 How to decrease gender-based violence in our countries: at home, at school, at work
(discussion in the working groups)
11.00 – 12.00 Summary and conclusions by youth and experts
Departure

Experts

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Project meeting results:
– Conducted training on gender equality and collected materials for gender journey toolkit, suggestion for education institutions and web-resource;
– Summary of the training, materials and project overview you will find out on www.genderjourney.eu