1. FRANCE INTERNATIONAL MEETING NEWSLETTER
Between the 24th
and 27th
of March, the Project “Everybody Can Do It” has its 5th
International Meeting, in Agen,
France, hosted by Mission Locale de l’Agenais, de l’Albret et du Confluent.
Looking to promote Gender Equality since, this meeting August 2012, several activities have been promoted and
we are now starting the close up all the activities and make a balance of our initiatives. The project will finish the
31st
July 2014, after the last and closure meeting in Newcastle.
Check out bellow all the things we have done so far, the final products we are preparing and the discussion and achievements.
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All the 8 partners from 8 countries attended the meeting, wih a a total of 25 participants. The meeting started
the 24th
with a welcome dinner and closed the 27th
with a public event hosted by the City Hall of Agen.
The agenda’s objectives were twofold. On one hand evaluation and balance of the activities had to be done, to
allow closure and the starting of the final product elaboration – the EBOOK FOR PRACTICE, made out of all the
workshops the partners carried out with adults, that were shared and discussed.
The activities positively evaluated were the following and all of them can be found in our blog:
▪ A list, which will always be provisional, of the women that inspired Europe;
▪ Comparative and specific board, about the defense and affirmation of the gender equality on the countries involved in this project;
▪ Database of books, movies and supportive materials to work the gender issues in adult’s education.
On the other hand, there was the need to evaluate the partnership, prepare the final meeting and start the strategy for reporting.
CHECK OUT THE VÍDEO AND PICTURES OF THE MEETING
… as words cannot make justice the all that happened
You can find the vídeo here (>>) and the pictures here (>>)
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We had the opportunity to visit this Vocational Training School that has
training in bakery, pastry, cookery, hairdressing, welding, automobile
painting, coach building among other and debate with the teachers and
students issues regarding:
▪ Representation of girls and boys in each job, and the relationships be-
tween them while studying
▪ Gender challenges in profession choosing
▪ Career opportunities
▪ Participation of girls in Euroskills contest
We were also very lucky to be invited for a lunch with typical gastronomy
of the region, made by the students.
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In this breakfast we had the chance to discuss with youngsters
supported by Mission Local and that are leaving in a Leonardo da
Vinci Mobility. They shared with us their visions and worries
regarding gender issues, using the art products they made to
participate in a National Contest for Gender Equality organized
by the minister for women rights. They presented their works :
drawings, poem, sketch, posters
After this, a health and social assistant specialist Planning Famili-
al shared with us her testimony on gender issues within the
world of youngsters: violence between adolescents, contracep-
tion, sexual understandings and behaviours, abortion, among
many other issues that came out in the debate raised with this
testimony.

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As some trainings only have men participating, The Chamber made a pro-
ject to promote gender equality and test methods on how to facilitate and
support female participation, in order to erase differences.
The method and instruments involved in paying more attention on the
whole process, from secondary school by encouraging girls to know about
apprenticeship and trade, and, on the second end to follow them very
carefully when they are working. This was very efficient, we could see an
augmentation of 50% from the girls in “pastry”.
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The partnership approved a Decalogue were 10 attitudes and
behaviours and changes are defended to be crucial to promote
effective change in society, beyond laws and public and private
innitiatives and projects, as they depend on each of us. You can
find it as a Prezy presentation (>>) or has a PDF (>>).
Contribute in a definitive way to assure the equality between
man and women: re ad it here and share it with your friends.
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All the partners presented a short point of view of 10 minutes on how they
saw the progresses and challenges of their countries, and much has still to
be done.
Presentation are part of the files of the project.
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Both learners and staff present could live and experiment one of
the workshops made by the partners. It was very interesting for
staff to discuss pedagogical approaches and for learners to dis-
cover how other young adults see the same issues.
In total, 7 learners from France, 2 from Turkey and 2 from Eng-
land participated to a debate about gender equality managed by
ta member of staff from mission locale. They could express their
views and ideas about topics on gender equality. The learners
were very involved and exchanges were very interesting.
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To make the partnership stronger and facilitate even more understanding
among the partnership, everybody brought typical products from their
countries to share together, including the team of Mission Local that also
participated. It was a beautiful lunch and we enjoyed it, not to talk about
the long and wonderful tasting of so many good products.
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The 1st Deputy Mayor of Agen welcomed the Project and made
an intervention about his views and worries on what concerns
gender issues, focusing on the global view of society, but also in
political and civic participation. A buffet of local products was
offered and more debate and exchange happened meanwhile.
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Spain - IES Jacarandá
Estonia - SA Tõstamaa Mõis
Finland - LEARNWELL OY
France - Mission Locale de l'Agenais, de l'Albret et du Confluent
Portugal - EUROYOUTH Portugal
Romania - Grupul Scolar Industrial Stefan Procopiu
Turkey - Uşak Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü
United Kingdom - Accentuate, North East
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