Equality for All: Gender Equality in Action

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This playlist invites you to take action on gender equality in your community, helping you understand the challenges around gender stereotypes and inequalities and how you can contribute to creating a fairer, more inclusive society. Through a series of engaging activities, you’ll explore gender roles in daily life, challenge harmful stereotypes in media and social media, start conversations about gender equality in your community, advocate for inclusive spaces, and support local gender equality initiatives.
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Each activity helps you develop essential skills like critical thinking, communication, advocacy, collaboration, and media literacy—all crucial for promoting gender equality in your everyday spaces. Whether you’re reflecting on personal experiences, creating content to challenge stereotypes, or leading conversations in your community, this playlist equips you to take meaningful action towards gender equality.
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This playlist supports and encourages learning, recognition, and action contributing to the European Youth Goal #2: Equality of All Genders.
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Why should you care?
Raise awareness on gender equality: Understand how gender roles impact you and others and how you can advocate for equality in everyday situations.
Challenge harmful stereotypes: Learn how media and social media shape perceptions of gender and create content that promotes inclusivity and respect.
Make your community more inclusive: Take action to make the spaces where you live, study, and work more welcoming for all genders by advocating for change and leading by example.
Support gender equality initiatives: Get involved in local projects that promote gender equality or start your own initiative to raise awareness and foster inclusivity.
Develop key life skills: Gain important skills like critical thinking, advocacy, and communication, which will help you be a leader in promoting gender equality.
Earn recognition: Get badges that highlight your contribution to gender equality, showcasing your leadership, advocacy, and community involvement. These badges can be added to your CV and show your commitment to creating a fairer world.
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How partners and organisations in Cities of Learning can support you:
Showcase inspiring stories: Highlight examples of young people leading change in their communities by promoting gender equality.
Encourage participation: Use social media and outreach to motivate young people to join gender equality initiatives and take part in local and national campaigns.
Connect with international networks: Help young people build connections with gender equality projects and networks across Europe, fostering collaboration and shared learning.
Organise gender equality events: Partner with local organisations to host workshops, campaigns, or events that engage young people in promoting gender equality.
Facilitate community dialogues: Create opportunities for young people to lead and participate in conversations about gender equality with local decision-makers, fostering meaningful change in their communities.
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How to get started:
Choose the activity that interests you most and participate in activities available in your local area or online.
Apply for each badge by completing the required tasks and submitting your evidence through the platform.
Once you’ve completed all the activities and earned your badges, you’ll automatically receive the playlist badge, recognising your overall achievement and contribution to the European Youth Goal No. 2: Equality of All Genders.
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This playlist is a part of the European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning cooperation partnership implemented by four partner organisations:
System&G, lead partner in Greece
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G Finland
The EU Erasmus+ programme co-funded this activity.

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Gender Equality Everyday

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Gender Stereotypes Media Challenge

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This activity helps you explore how traditional and social media portray gender roles and stereotypes, and how you can take action to challenge these portrayals.
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You’ll learn how both traditional media (movies, ads, TV shows) and social media platforms influence how we think about gender and how you can use your voice to challenge harmful stereotypes.
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First, get inspired!
Watch a video or documentary about how media and social media shape views on gender roles.
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Explore how social media influencers or campaigns are raising awareness about gender equality and promoting positive gender representation.
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Now, take action!
Through these activities, you’ll discover how media and social media influence perceptions of gender. You’ll learn how to critically analyse media content and create powerful messages that challenge stereotypes. By gaining confidence in your media literacy skills, you’ll become an advocate for positive representation and inclusivity.
Become media critical: Choose a piece of media or social media content—like an ad, TV show, or TikTok post or similar — and identify the gender roles it portrays. Does it reinforce or challenge gender stereotypes? Write a short post or create a social media post that shares your analysis of how these portrayals affect people’s views on gender roles.
Be brave to challenge gender stereotypes: Use your social media to create content that challenges gender stereotypes or promotes positive gender representation. You can make a meme, video, or post that encourages your followers to reflect on gender equality. Share your content on social media, see how people interact with it, and reflect on the feedback or conversations it starts.
Throw media challenge: Start a media challenge, simple as an online poll or provoking question in your youth group or community. Encourage others to find and share examples of media or social media that challenge stereotypes. Collect these examples and create a presentation or post to share with others. Document the examples and share them online or in a group, reflecting on how they contribute to breaking harmful gender stereotypes.
Get your badge.
Complete some of the activities from the list above and apply for a badge (=click the "Get this badge" button below) by sharing your experience and skills.
Who is behind this activity?
Cities of Learning Network partners invite you to learn and do something about the European Youth Goal #2: Equality of All Genders. We value your efforts and contributions and therefore want to reward you with badge recognition.
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Contact us for more details about the Erasmus+ co-funded project "European Youth Goals for Cities of Learning"
System&G, Greece - the project lead partner
CODEC, Belgium
Badgecraft, Lithuania
System&G Finland

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Gender Stereotypes Media Challenge Get this badge

This badge is awarded for completing the “Gender Stereotypes Media Challenge” activity. You’ve critically analysed how gender stereotypes are portrayed in traditional and social media, created content to challenge these stereotypes, and promoted positive gender representation. You’ve developed key competences in understanding media’s influence on gender roles and advocating for more inclusive portrayals.
Skills and experiences gained (aligned with the Gender Analysis Competency Framework by Institute for Gender and the Economy):
Media literacy: You’ve critically analyzed gender representation in media, identifying harmful stereotypes and their societal impact (5 W’s: What and Who).
Content creation: You’ve created content that challenges these stereotypes, applying gender-sensitive principles to promote inclusivity (How: Gender-sensitive Design).
Digital engagement: You’ve shared your content on social media, fostering engagement and encouraging others to reflect on gender equality (How: Digital Advocacy).
This badge demonstrates the earner’s ability to challenge gender stereotypes in media, raise awareness about gender biases, and contribute to positive gender representation, contributing to the European Youth Goal #2: Equality of All Genders. Cities of Learning Network partners value the badge earner’s efforts and contributions and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.

Tasks

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Badge-Earning Criteria:
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Analyse Media Content:
Task: Choose traditional media piece or social media post and analyse how it portrays gender stereotypes or challenges them.
Evidence: Submit the media piece and your explanation of how gender roles are portrayed and their impact.
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Create Content:
Task: Create and share content (a meme, post, or video) that challenges gender stereotypes or promotes positive representation.
Evidence: Submit the content you created and share how people reacted or engaged with your post.
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Organise a Media Challenge:
Task: Start a media awareness challenge in your youth group or community. Encourage others to find and share examples of media that challenge stereotypes.
Evidence: Provide a summary of the challenge, including media examples and feedback from participants.

Gender Equality Through Art and Creativity

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Gender Equality in Everyday Spaces

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Support a Gender Equality Initiative

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Activities: 5

Started: 2

Completed playlist: 0

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

Badgecraft hosts this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@badgecraft.eu.