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Boys in Care – strengthening boys to pursue care occupations (BiC)

Project period: April 2017 – September 2019
Project goal: Create and improve initiatives for gender untypical vocational choices supporting boys in untypical vocational pathways, challenge the under-representation of men in professional care education including health care, elder care, early childhood education and primary school and teaching, challenge a cultural ascription of care work as an extension of women’s ‘natural’ function in the family and foster caring masculinities and challenge rigid gender norms.

Project activities:

  1. Review of textbooks, teaching and informational material for vocational choices
  2. Developing an online toolkit for gender sensitive educational and vocational counselling for teachers and counsellors.
  3. Developing and/or improving gender sensitive online informational material for professionals, boys and parents.
  4. Developing and implementing modularized training courses for teachers and vocational counsellors with a focus on gender sensitive vocational counselling for boys.
  5. Awareness raising campaigns
  6. Development of a manual, oriented on the needs of teachers and vocational counsellors (incl. strategies, tools, specific knowledge).

Project coordinator(s):

Dissens Institute fur Building under Forschung (Germany)

Project partner(s):

Der Verein für Männer- und Geschlechterthemen Steiermark (Austria)
The Peace Institute (Slovenia)
Istituto degli Innocenti (Italy)
Center of Women’s Studies and Policies (Bulgaria
Center for Equality Advancement (Lithuania)
Education Development Centre (associated partner in Lithuania)

Project financing information:

Partly funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union

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