Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SUPPORTER (SecUring sPORTs Education thRough innovative and inclusive Gender Equality Plans)
Période du rapport: 2023-04-01 au 2024-03-31
Sports significantly contribute to economic and social cohesion, promoting more integrated societies, and could be consciously considered – particularly in the case of sports education - as key catalyst for gender+ equality changes in society. However, the sports ecosystem is still largely male-dominated, and the highly competitive environment, combined with a lack of intersectional perspective, creates a context that can contribute to multiple inequalities and gender-based violence.
SUPPORTER project seeks to advance inclusive gender equality in eight partner sports higher-education institutions from Central and Eastern Europe. With tailored training and mentoring mechanisms provided by expert partners, these eight organisations will design intersectional, innovative, inclusive, and impactful Gender Equality Plans (4I-GEPs), adapted to their context, and explicitly addressing gender-based violence - including sexual harassment.
This twinning-inspired approach is based on three interlinked processes (analytical, reflective, implementing), combining learning and mutual-learning schemes with co-creation and dissemination activities, engaging a diverse range of stakeholders.
As this intersectional framework boosts the sports institutions’ capacity to achieve gender equality, their reputation, inclusiveness, and research excellence will ultimately equally be enhanced. Additionally, by triggering sustainable institutional change in addressing inequality-driven challenges, these institutions will be better equipped to meet their objectives related to gender+ equality in the ERA.
Beyond these eight partner institutions, SUPPORTER aims for multiplier effect, to reach the sports ecosystem, and on the long-term bring gender+ institutional change in a variety of institutions, contributing to wide-range systemic societal changes in line with the Ljubljana Declaration objectives.
SUPPORTER project seeks to advance inclusive gender equality in eight partner sports higher-education institutions from Central and Eastern Europe. With tailored training and mentoring mechanisms provided by expert partners, these eight organisations will design intersectional, innovative, inclusive, and impactful Gender Equality Plans (4I-GEPs), adapted to their context, and explicitly addressing gender-based violence - including sexual harassment.
This twinning-inspired approach is based on three interlinked processes (analytical, reflective, implementing), combining learning and mutual-learning schemes with co-creation and dissemination activities, engaging a diverse range of stakeholders.
As this intersectional framework boosts the sports institutions’ capacity to achieve gender equality, their reputation, inclusiveness, and research excellence will ultimately equally be enhanced. Additionally, by triggering sustainable institutional change in addressing inequality-driven challenges, these institutions will be better equipped to meet their objectives related to gender+ equality in the ERA.
Beyond these eight partner institutions, SUPPORTER aims for multiplier effect, to reach the sports ecosystem, and on the long-term bring gender+ institutional change in a variety of institutions, contributing to wide-range systemic societal changes in line with the Ljubljana Declaration objectives.
- The state-of-the-art in gender equality and gender-based violence in the CEE region (D2.1) and relevant tools and trainings (D2.2) were mapped and reported in the corresponding deliverables.
-Templates for the self-assessment and institutional mapping of the implementing organisations and the 'model organisation’ were produced.
- All the eight IOs and the 'model organisation’ performed their self-assessment (analysed their existing GEP and institutional arrangements, and produced reports reflecting their state-of-the-art .
- The SUPPORTER Capacity Building Scheme was developed (D3.1).
- The mutual learning and the mentoring and monitoring schemes were developed as part of the SUPPORTER Capacity Building Scheme (D3.1).
- Training module 1 (three training sessions) was implemented.
- One mutual learning workshop (in-person) and two mutual learning sessions (online) were held.
- The setup of the SUPPORTER Network was initiated through the development of synergies with sister projects, and some initial communication activities led by the implementing organisations, such as Info Sessions.
- Eight institutional roadmaps towards the development of 4I-GEPs were co-designed by the implementing organisations, tailored to their needs, with the support of the consortium expert organizations (D4.1) in a process that included internal consultations, mutual learning discussions, and mentoring meetings.
-Templates for the self-assessment and institutional mapping of the implementing organisations and the 'model organisation’ were produced.
- All the eight IOs and the 'model organisation’ performed their self-assessment (analysed their existing GEP and institutional arrangements, and produced reports reflecting their state-of-the-art .
- The SUPPORTER Capacity Building Scheme was developed (D3.1).
- The mutual learning and the mentoring and monitoring schemes were developed as part of the SUPPORTER Capacity Building Scheme (D3.1).
- Training module 1 (three training sessions) was implemented.
- One mutual learning workshop (in-person) and two mutual learning sessions (online) were held.
- The setup of the SUPPORTER Network was initiated through the development of synergies with sister projects, and some initial communication activities led by the implementing organisations, such as Info Sessions.
- Eight institutional roadmaps towards the development of 4I-GEPs were co-designed by the implementing organisations, tailored to their needs, with the support of the consortium expert organizations (D4.1) in a process that included internal consultations, mutual learning discussions, and mentoring meetings.
In the first year of SUPPORTER implementation, activities focused on mapping the implementing organisations’ institutional environment (including national context) in order to define the baseline from which their institutional roadmaps are developed, related to gender+ equality and gender-based violence in sports institutions. Eight institutional roadmaps for gender+ institutional change leading to the development of 4I-GEPs, were co-designed by the implementing organizations with their internal stakeholders and the support of expert consortium partners. While the implementing organizations are just beginning to implement these roadmaps, progress beyond the state-of-the-art is expected to be achieved by the end of the project.