Virtual Competence Centre of Gender Equality

About this project

<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Financed from NO FM</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Programme outcome the project contributes to: “Reduced domestic and gender-based violence and gender inequalities”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">A Virtual Competence Centre of Gender Equality will offer a one-stop-shop to raise awareness of different target groups and stakeholders essential for promoting gender equality in the society, and to provide selected stakeholders, such as state and local government level policymakers, teachers/career counselors and employers with a necessary know-how. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">In addition to gender equality related research and data, the competence centre will make available online trainings. </span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">By making available innovative user-friendly tools to enable web-based independent studying, the Virtual Competence Centre of Gender Equality contributes to the provision of flexible, continuous and thereby sustainable awareness raising of gender equality.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Project activities shall include:</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">The creation of an online interactive gender equality database for Estonia;</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Creating and offering online training courses on gender equality, including on awareness-raising on gender pay gap and on gender stereotypes in career counselling;&nbsp;</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Carrying out a representative survey on attitudes towards gender equality in 2021 in Estonia;</span></span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Publishing high-quality discussion articles based on the data from the survey.</span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px">Donor project partner Kilden&nbsp;(national knowledge centre for gender perspectives and gender balance in research) will share its experiences how to develop and operate a webpage for virtual competence centre&nbsp;and&nbsp;will&nbsp;carry&nbsp;out a follow up training in Estonia in Ministry of Social Affairs for the stakeholders involved.&nbsp;</span></span></p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Kilden experts advised the Ministry of Social Affairs in setting up the virtual competence centre and gave a presentation "From Equality to Anti-discrimination and other developments in Norwegian equality policies" at the project's seminar.

Project partners

• Kilden Donor project partner· Norway