PRIORITY · EQUALITY
Gender equality, human rights, and equal opportunities for all.
Our equality work spans four connected areas — gender equality, human rights protection, anti-discrimination, and equal opportunities. We build the knowledge, tools, and networks that turn the right to equal treatment into lived reality, across European projects since 2009.
THE CHALLENGE
Equality requires more than law.
Europe has strong legal frameworks protecting equal treatment and prohibiting discrimination. In practice, gender-based violence, workplace inequality, and discrimination against minority groups persist across every member state — not because the law is absent, but because the awareness, support systems, and cultural change needed to apply it lag behind.
Real equality requires sustained, practical work at the community level — alongside policy and law. It requires reaching people who do not yet know their rights, equipping the professionals who work with them, and changing the everyday workplaces, schools, and institutions where unequal treatment plays out.
OUR APPROACH
How we approach equality work.
Across all four areas — gender equality, human rights protection, anti-discrimination, and equal opportunities — our work follows four principles.
Lived experience first
We design with survivors, advocates, and the people affected — not just for them. Their experience shapes the questions we ask and the tools we build.
Capacity, not awareness alone
Awareness campaigns matter, but real change happens when service providers, employers, educators, and public officials have the capacity to act differently.
Survivor-centred and trauma-informed
Our materials and training reflect what professionals working with survivors of discrimination and violence actually need — practical, sensitive, and grounded in evidence.
Cross-sector and cross-border
Equality challenges cross sectors and borders — between countries, between systems, and between professional silos. Our responses are designed the same way.
WHAT WE DELIVER
What we deliver in equality.
Across our equality-focused projects, our work has produced concrete tools, training, and capacity in all four areas:
Gender equality programmes
Training, tools, and campaigns addressing gender-based violence, women in the labour market, and gender mainstreaming in education and employment.
Human rights protection resources
Curricula and resources for educators, civil society, and frontline workers on rights awareness, rights-based practice, and supporting people whose rights have been violated.
Anti-discrimination training
Programmes for service providers, educators, employers, and community workers — building the practical skills to recognise, prevent, and respond to discrimination.
Equal opportunities tools
Workplace resources and institutional guidance for employers and organisations building more equitable hiring, promotion, and participation practices.
Awareness-and-action campaigns
Campaigns paired with practical resources — visibility plus concrete pathways to action.
Cross-border consortia
European partnerships that share what works across very different national contexts.
PROJECTS IN THIS AREA
Our work in equality.
Active and completed projects across the equality priority. Switch between Active and Completed to filter the list.
AI Ready
Empower Schools, Teachers & Students to be AI Ready
AI Cookbook
Support adult educators working with migrant classes to develop a positive mindset and practical skills on using AI tools and applications.
GREEN CIRCLE
Green Circle project aims to identify, develop, test, and assess the use of micro-credentials in the construction sector
AI Pioneers
Cross-sectoral project aims at promoting the use and teaching of artificial intelligence (AI) in adult education and vocational training.
AI@School
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From gender equality to anti-discrimination work, from human rights education to equal opportunities in the workplace — we partner with consortia across Europe on projects that move beyond awareness into real change. We respond to enquiries within 2 working days.