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“Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs” is an Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnership project to promote innovative solutions on gender related problemsfor youth organizations by building capacity and strategic partnerships and to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs.This partnership brings together four (4) civil society organizations and a university unit working on the field of youth in four different countries. Partners areCommunity Volunteers Foundation (TOG), Turkey (coordinator), Yasar University, Turkey; the Portuguese Network of Young People for Gender Equality (REDE), Portugal; United Societies of Balkans (USB), Greece; and EURO-NET, Italy.Gender Perspective in EU Mobility Programs Project aims to mainstream the gender point of view in EU Mobility Programs and to increase the visibility ofgender issues in youth organizations. EU Mobility Programs such as Erasmus + mobilize so many young people all around the Europe together brings excellentopportunities for young people. At the same time, it is obvious that gender discrimination is a global/transnational issue and it effects all the young women'slife all around the world including Europe. Especially being a young woman foreigner means facing many different challenges which might differentiate fromtheir men peers. Even though there are differences according to travelled countries structure, the organization of society legitimizes the discriminative actionand sexual harassment against young women. Therefore, discussing preventive suggestions against those measures and developing reliable solutions andmechanisms will contribute increasing the quality of mobility programs and young women’ experience.The other aims of the project are ;- To explore experiences of discriminative action against young women and challanges within an exchange program in 4 different countires;- To focus on best practices on gender which have supportive mechanisms for young women;- To establish and promote new tools and solidarity network in order to empower young women;- To encourage young women to be the main actor while promoting the innovative solutions;- To advocate the ‘Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Program’ to local and international authorities, decision makers, public entities, NGOs andnetworks;The intellectual outputs realized within the scope of the project are:Situation Report: the major aim of this study is to collect data that will allow to develop mechanisms of prevention and response to situations of discrimination,thus striving to increase the quality of the experience that young women and young LGBTI+ within exchange programmes and to bring the gender perspectiveto the centre while considering and evaluating the mobility programmes.Guide: Guide contains the support mechanisms that young women and LGBTI+ can appeal in the case of violence of their rights.Video: Three video has been prepared on the title of “ What is Gender Based Violence?”, “What can young people do to struggle with gender based violenceduring the mobility programs” and “ What is gender based violence”.Gender Policy Recommendation for EU Mobility Programs: Gender Policy Recommendation contains the current situation analyze and recommendations that are developed regarding prevention of gender-based discrimination within mobility programs.Also, within the framework of the project, 5 study visits among partner organizations were organized to to learn from each other on various gender-relatedissues. During each study visit, the participants visited six different NGOs, which are active in youth field working for gender equality or/and LGBTQ+ rights; higher education institutions; and municipalities. At the end of the project 1 international network meeting has
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