Erasmus+ programme will co-fund the project of educational innovation ‘Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity’ with 361,755 euros. Led by the Conselleria of Education, Culture and Sport, 9 partners are taking part, including those from Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Scotland. This strategic partnership for the development of educational innovation in Europe has duration of three years.
The challenge of the project ‘Women’s Legacy: Our Cultural Heritage for Equity’ is to highlight the social and historical prominence of women, restoring their contributions to science, culture and the advancement of knowledge in through the inclusion of female referents and their legacy in the educational curricular contents.
Among the members of ‘Women’s Legacy’, which is being coordinated by the educational sphere for the Valencian government (Generalitat), are included the education services of the Glasgow City Council, Scotland’s largest city council; the Universities of València and Vilnius; and the IAL Nazionale – Innovazione Apprendimento Lavoro, the largest Italian network of social enterprises working in Vocational Training and Continuing Education. The other five members of this Eramus+ programme are ‘El legado de las mujeres’, a Spanish teachers’ association willing to give visibility to women in Secondary education content; the Melchor Botella Trade Union Training School of the Valencian Intersindical; and two secondary schools, IES Benicalap, in València, and the IS Luigi Einaudi, in Italy.
The welcome day that marks the start of the three years of this Erasmus+ project will be held in València on 25 November with an online meeting between all the partners of the project. The choice to launch the Erasmus+ on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is not unintentional: education is a key tool to build an egalitarian society that eradicates the patriarchal discourses and practices that sustain gender-based violence.
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport. There are opportunities for organizations, which want to explore development and networking opportunities with universities, education and training providers, think-tanks, research organizations, and private businesses. The programme aims to help generations of Europeans to become active citizens, with the skills, knowledge and experience to tackle the challenges facing our society, both now and in the years to come.
