Welcome to the DIGITAL LEARNING HUB to facilitate, attract, encourage and offer lifelong learning opportunities to every professional and woman.
About the Project
SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT
VOICES is designed to help to bridge the gender divide and foster women's participation in society, by providing women and professionals working with them with a set of gender-responsive educational resources, specifically designed to promote gender equality and equal participation in society. A strategic partnership involving 8 organizations from Spain, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Turkey will exchange their know-how, consider the different local contexts involved and work together to define the common and relevant background and solutions to boost women's empowerment and participation in society, through innovative and meaningful education.
Microlearning, digital storytelling, and real-world learning approaches will be applied for the development of the three project results to foster professionals' and women's capacity for action upon gender gaps, and overcome any gender-related constraints to equal women's participation in public and private life. Participatory methodologies will be valued for the development of all projects' results.
VOICES' objectives are:
- to raise awareness on gender roles and inequalities, as a means to identify and implement strategies that encourage equal participation and bridge the gender divide
- to improve professionals' competences in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment;
- to challenge gender-biased stereotypes related to women's participation in the public and private spheres of their lives;
- to boost women's willingness and capacity to take an active role within their diverse living contexts;
- to promote effective lifelong learning and continuing professional development opportunities for women and the professionals who work with them (in adult education, public services, or civil society organisations) targeting gender equality and women empowerment;
- to create networking opportunities for professionals that enable continuous knowledge exchange within a community of practice focused on fostering women's participation and empowerment. Because building a gender-equal world, where everyone can raise their voices for the common good is possible and undeniable desirable!
The main target groups of the project are women and professionals directly working with them.
Project results
The project will produce the following results:
1. VOICES competences roadmap and resources for Local Learning Networks - a competences roadmap and a set of guiding resources will be developed to improving the competences of professionals on gender equality and women’s empowerment; these professionals will take part in the VOICES Local Learning Networks, created in each participated country to combine their expertise and join efforts for empowering women for equal participation and driving change, through working in local cooperation partnership.
2. VOICES thematic MOOCs - a set of thematic MOOCs will be developed using microlearning principles, storytelling methodology, and real-world learning, to raise awareness on key areas of women’s empowerment, in line with the Gender Action Plan III, including a) Ending gender-based violence; b) Sexual and reproductive health and rights; c) Economic and social rights and empowerment; d) Equal participation and leadership; e) Women, peace and security; f) Green and digital transformations.
3. VOICES digital learning hub - a digital learning hub, where the previous project results along with additional interactive activities and learning resources will be integrated into a toolkit for professionals and interactive thematic MOOCs for women, will be developed to facilitate, attract, encourage and offer every professional and woman lifelong learning opportunities.
The strategic partnership
