WOMAD - Women Against Discrimination

WOMAD (Women against discrimination) supports the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities and an active European citizenship. It brings the European dimension to the local level involving schools and sport clubs from the partner countries. Sport has always been seen as a male prerogative, especially football, with a fragmentary media coverage of female competitions and a reluctant attitude towards girls approaching it. The partners want to play their part in “closing the gap” between the perception of boys and girls sport practice. The project involves organizations and sport clubs from Spain, North Macedonia, Italy and Serbia. According to their shared needs, they set 3 general objectives such as: tackle sexist stereotypes and violence in football, enhance football practice among women and girls and promote social inclusion and equal opportunities. The gender equality can be reached inside and outside the soccer field and the partners intend to give their contribution creating Gender mainstreaming in sports guidelines that will be delivered to the direct beneficiaries through a 10 hours course. The beneficiaries are split into 2 groups: coaches and directors of Sport clubs and schools/sport club students (ISCED 2-3), precisely, 10 coaches and 50 teenagers coming from different sports clubs/schools per partner country. They will attend the course and give their feedback about content and delivery for future use. The 2 specific objectives are: to produce a Research Report on women involvement in sports and “Gender mainstreaming in sports guidelines”, that will be used to train and raise awareness about tackling sexist stereotypes and violence in sport, specifically in football and to involve and raise awareness of the people around those directly involved in the project; like families, sport professionists, teachers from schools not directly involved in the project and members of gender mainstreaming NGOs.