Tag: Gender Stereotypes

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Free to Choose presents its results in Las Palmas

Andrea Zanolla

December 12, 2018, Las Palmas

Free to Choose presents the results of the research “Mind the Gap” (on gender gap in Europe) and “Coming Out” (Comparative analysis in 5 Countries of the gender stereotypes in education and labour market) in a public presentation at the Instituto Canario de Igualdad.

The presentation is followed by a panel discussion in which 5 experts in gender issues debate on gender segregation and tools for overcoming it: Chiara Cristini, social researcher and project manager of IRES FVG (institute of social research of Friuli Venezia Giulia); Maria Angeli, researcher and project manager of the Mediterranena Institute of Gender Studies; Giuliana Ingellis, researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Sociology of the Universitat de Valencia; Cristina Miranda Santana,   Professor at the Department of Education, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sofía Valdivielso Gómez, Dr. Psychopedagogy and teacher in the degree of social education and in the Master in family and sociocommunitarian mediation at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

In he afternoon “Let’s Play” – game sessions with the Free to Choose board game with youngsters from Gran Canaria, in collaboration with IDEO.

 

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In Las Palmas with Free to Choose

Andrea Zanolla

As the testing of the board game runs in all Partner Countries, the Free to Choose Team is in Las Palmas for the 5th transnational meeting.

On wednesday Free to Choose will be presented to the Public and in the afternoon a gaming session will take place with local students.

“Free to choose: professions without gender stereotypes” is the title of the public dissemination event scheduled for December 12 from 9 to 16.30 at the Salón de Actos in the Building of Múltiples II in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). Organized by the Spanish partners of Opcionate, it is part of the penultimate transnational meeting (11-12 December) of the European project Free to Choose, led by the Social Cooperative Itaca and co-financed by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship program of the European Union, which aims to promote a cultural and behavioral change in young people 16-29 years and key adults involved in the transition and orientation from secondary school to higher education or the labor market, leading to a different view of professions and job opportunities.

Free to Choose Partners are: Cooperativa sociale Itaca (Lead Partner), Regione Fvg – Assessorato al Lavoro, Istruzione, Politiche giovanili e Pari opportunità, Ires Fvg, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia in Italy,  Mcbit and Nefiks (Slovenia), Opciònate and Universitat de Valencia (Spain), Apload (Portugal) and Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies MIGS (Cyprus).

 

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Time to start busting Gender Stereotypes!

Alessio Romito

Palazzo Badini, Ellero Room – Pordenone. 15 November 2018. 

Within the III edition of the Week against violence on women, Social Cooperative Itaca and the Municipality of Pordenone – Equal Opportunities Department set up the first Free to Choose game session mass event at Palazzo Badini, Ellero Room involving 40 students from I.S.I.S. Zanussi.

The testing phase was then followed by a in-depth debriefing where the game masters got crucial feedbacks for keep refining the game board prototype. The event ended with an open discussion led by the journalist Clelia Del Ponte and professor Tindara Abbaddo from UNIMORE University.

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Promoting equality by playing? Make it possible with FreeToChoose!

Alessio Romito

LJUBLJANA (SLOVENIA) – 10 JULY 2018. The FreeToChoose (FTC) dissemination event, organized by Nefiks and hosted at the historical building of the Trubar Literature House, represented an important milestone of the project, since it was the occasion to present two of the main FtC outputs to stakeholders and general public: the results of the sociological research (WS1) and  the test of the board game prototype (WS2). Main guests from public authorities attending the event were Rok Primozic, Director at Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Youth under the Ministry for Education, Science and Sport, and Katarina Gorenc, Head of Youth Office of the City of Ljubljana.

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4th Transnational Meeting coming up in Ljubljana

Alessio Romito

LJUBLJANA (SLOVENIA). 9 – 10 July 2018. – Double appointment for Free to Choose on the 9th and 10th of July in Ljubljana, the Slovenian Capital, at Trubarjeva hiša literature Stritarjeva 7, where the 4th transnational project meeting (9th July) and a special public dissemination event (10th July) will see the participation of various institutional representatives including the Slovenian Institute of Employment, the Institute for Study of Gender Equality and KROJ Youth Network for Career Development. Led by Itaca Social Cooperative, Free to Choose aims at overcoming gender stereotypes in youngsters 16-29 years old to make them free to choose their education and professional path.

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FreeToChoose and game experimentation at PLAY Modena

Alessio Romito

MODENA. 6 – 8 April 2018. – The X Edition of PLAY Modena, the biggest fair on Italian games, took place in Modena Fiere from the 6th to the 8th of April. Organized in collaboration with Club TreEmme, La Tana dei Goblin and Gilda del Grifone, with the patronage of the Municipality of Modena and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), PLAY Modena gave life to the largest playroom ever made in Italy by occupying a space that exceeded 22 thousand square meters (the equivalent of twenty tennis courts!). An extension that was justified by the incredible number of board games, miniatures, live games, video games, traditional games, street games, costumes and cosplayers.

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