European Union project ERASMUS-JMO-2021-MODULE «Subnational gender equality: balance of EU values and Ukrainian realities» SubGend

Registered under control number: 101047451

Full project name: Subnational gender equality: balance of EU values and Ukrainian realities

Project duration: 01 Jun 2022 – 31 May 2025

Project budget: 30 000.00 €

Grant recipient: Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State University

Coordinator: Kateryna Akbash, tel. +380506589684, e-mail: [email protected]

Project summary:

Gender inequality is a phenomenon, which plays role both in formal and in non-formal aspects of life. In addition to various gender stereotypes are common, population has a low-level awareness on issues of gender equality, and there is no reliable and regularly collected statistics. If we talk about both of national and sub-national levels such fact as gender inequality has it`s different ways of expression and complicates the development and implementation of the effective political actions.

In Ukraine the gender inequality is practically have not analyzed at the institutional level. That is why the gender inequality researches, giving information, gender equality promotion based on the European values and the best experience and extremely valuable and necessary for us.

The implementation of this project is relevant for acceptance the European values, culture, and the gender equality promotion and getting rid of conservative patriarchal stereotypes. This point is also valuable for the formation of a new Ukrainian school as gender neutral.

Therefore, the main purpose of the project is popularization points of gender issues among different strata of population and drawing public attention to the gender equality promotion and universal inclusion of gender dimensions.

The project implementation in the direction of researching and distribution of the European experience in world gender researches will be the prolongation of the cooperation with European programs Tempus (2009-2018, Project “Educational measurements, adopted to EU standards”) and ERASMUS + (2015-2018, Project “Educational program “Gender studios: the step to the democracy and peace in countries which have different traditions and situated near the borders of European Union”).

Because if this we can say that our cooperation experience, professionalism and pedagogical experience make the good basis of project implementation and effective broadcast of its results to another people, who are not directly take part on the project, such as bachelors, masters and postgraduate students.

The project implementation at the sub-national and institutional levels involves a number of different activities such as forming of students’ and teachers’ abilities to navigate the peculiarities of international European practice in the field of gender educational statistics, gender stereotypes and prejudices in world education and gender education technologies.

It will take place in the form of course implementation in the educational process of pedagogical specialties and in the form of summer schools also. In addition to meetings, educational visits, promo actions were planned. Among participants will be all society in general, teachers, personnel of the regional statistics office, personnel of sociological services of the region, medical personnel.

Finally, it is planned to organize a research work to generalize and systematize the results of the project. It will include the study of the main approaches in the EU and Ukraine to gender equality and adaptation of complex gender indices to the subnational and institutional levels. It is planned to acquaint politicians, businesspersons, specialists and the public with the results of scientific research work and plan the use of project materials to promote and finance gender equality.

Target group: teachers; students of various bachelor's and master's programs of the university; management staff of universities; representatives of the public organization "University of the Third Age "Inspiration"; teachers of humanitarian departments of the Central Ukrainian National Technical University; teachers of the Kirovohrad region; members of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the Kirovohrad region.

The project envisages the following results:

• Creation of a package of educational materials highlighting various aspects of gender equality at the national and sub-national levels, ready to be implemented in educational programs for all specialties of the university;
• Creation of the monograph "Adaptation of gender indices to the subnational and institutional level: a balance of EU values and Ukrainian realities" on the adaptation of complex gender indices to the subnational and institutional levels and methodologies for implementing adapted gender indices in the practice of the statistical structure of Ukraine and its regions, as well as in statistical corporate services; in the activity of health care structures; in the practice of functioning of sociological structures; in political decisions.
• Promotion of gender issues among the public.