During the last years we have witnessed considerable progress in what concerns women’s participation in the political and social life, many countries having adopted laws that ensure equal opportunities for men and women. Besides all this, the mentalities and life styles do not allow an appropriate percentage of women participating in the political life.
At present the difference between the number of men and that of women members in the Parliament is considerably big. The percentage of women members of Parliament varies between 19% in UK, 15% in Czech Republic and 9,7 in Romania.
In order to contribute to the changing of this state of art, the partnership aims at starting from changing the mentality of the target group, young women, who need to increase their self-esteem and their abilities of free expression. By means of the participatory workshops the target group will be supported in improving their knowledge on participatory democracy, the importance of their involvement in the political life at local and European level, but also the role of the vote.
The project aims thus at increasing the participation of young women aged 16-35 in the political life and to the vote by increasing their trust in the own forces, with the help of workshops based on the scenarios and role play.
A group of 10-15 women from each country will be involved in a series of interactive workshops with the aim to prepare in the end a public debate moderated by themselves.
A DVD with the experiences gathered in the project will be produced, as well as a success stories booklet that will gather relevant stories, anecdotes, good practices that happened during the project implementation.
The project website will reflect the activities of the project.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Reference number of the project: CSP-2008-109