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

Implementation period: April 2017 – September 2019

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:

• Dissens Institut für Bildung und Forschung e.V. – Germany

Project partners:

• 2. Verein für Männer- und Geschlechterthemen Steiermark – Austria
• 3. The Peace Institute – Slovenia
• 4. Instituto degli Innocenti – Italy
• 5. Center of Women’s Studies and Policies – Bulgaria

The project is funded by: