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Anthropolis Association protectorated the Erasmus+ tender called IOGGA / Inside Out Growing Gender Awareness/ that is a one week debating and senzitisating seminar on gender equity. The project has won the support of EU and it was held in 2019 September at Felsőörs in Hungary at Snétberger Centre.
Onto this seminar 25 participants arrived from allover the EU: from Albania, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Romania, Italy and from Hungary
The calming and enchanting natural environment with forrest and a spring gave idilical background to this seminar what some part was not idilical, more like realistic and challenging both intellectually and emotionally. The participants from each nations presented at local, regional and national level general attitudes toward gender issues and after the presentations debated on the phenomenon for the sake of creating a more accurate European picture of gender topic. In addition, the participants have been worked with their personal memories and stories connected to gender unequity or even harassment. Occasionally unsettling emotions occurred. The psychologist trener gave emotional support and facilitated activities for understanding and reflections about personal stories.The interactive methodology of the seminar, all the discussions and the moderated, facilitated debates on gender topics helped people to reveal their hidden attitude from back in the past. These judgemental attitude arose at some point among even these gender sensitive persons during discussions, and in the process of the seminar all these harsh thoughts and beliefs was challenged by the present century postmodern approaches for the aim getting to a deeper awareness.At the last third of the seminar participants could work in pairs, in small groups and in other various forms on their own dissemination’ plans and got time, several ideas and support for it.
The intensity of the seminar was proved by the huge amount of happy moments by the lake, or during hiking and organising international evenings.
Final reflections showed that participants judged that it was a meaningful seminar and the disseminations have been delivered successfully too. All the participants got inspiration and they produced several follow ups from their knowledge got in Felsőörs: articles, interviews, a radio show and a study were born after they returned back home.
Budapest, 2019. october
