Education & Training as a means of social change
To achieve the objectives and carry out the actions listed below, "Let Her In" involves education and training. Εducation and training should not be limited by conventional viewpoints that confine them to children and teenagers in formal educational institutions. We support a lifelong learning mindset accessible to all citizens; we provide equal access to free and top-notch educational opportunities. The lines between formal, non-formal, and informal education should be flattened so that society approaches education as a process that penetrates several domains of life and in which people actively participate in their learning.
The most important tool for reforming our societies for future advancement is the interchange of knowledge and experiences among individuals and communities.
Fields of action
GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Gender & gender mainstreaming is one of the broadest domains of activity based on the core of the “Let Her In” initiative. We believe that a world with equal gender opportunity will benefit all. Our objective is not just to address gender issues but also to stress the need for horizontal gender equality in all aspects of our lives. We perceive gender mainstreaming as a comprehensive strategy for planning, creating, implementing, and evaluating network projects, combatting prejudice, and ensuring inclusion.
In this field, our priorities are to:
- Stress the importance of gender dimension to all areas of society
- Provide equal opportunities to women, particularly empowering the ones belonging to disadvantaged social groups
- Educate, sensitise, and raise awareness about gender equality
- Provide policy recommendations through our projects
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Everyone should be able to access and experience cultural heritage over their lifetime. It is the inheritance from the past that we live by in the present and pass to the following generations. Monuments and collections of items are just some of the cases. It also includes living representations we have received from our past, such as performing arts, oral traditions, social customs, rituals, knowledge and practices about nature and the cosmos, and knowledge and skills associated with traditional trades. Intangible cultural legacy, often known as living heritage, is crucial to preserving cultural diversity despite its fragility.
Our main priorities in this area are to:
- Include persons with impairments in the sectors of the European heritage by providing training, creating original content, and using mediation,
- Enhance the accessibility of the European cultural heritage to audiences with particular needs or with limited or no access through new technologies and forms of mediation
- Develop new modes of mediation both inside and outside of the classroom, owing to digital tools and creative and alternative pedagogies,
- Create fresh approaches to a heritage that is intercultural and participative
- Encourage cultural dialogue
- Increase the social and educational value of the European cultural legacy and its impact on economic development and social cohesion
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
The sustainability of the environment and human well-being are interdependent. To support welfare and well-being both today and in the future, it is necessary to safeguard global ecosystems and conserve natural resources. Sustainability is an umbrella term that encompasses efforts on personal, organisational, and community levels on responsible use of resources. It refers to individual and collective actions directed to helping the environment and promoting gender equality or creating access to education and safe, equally paid jobs.
Our priorities are to:
- Achieve a better understanding of the environmental challenges
- Boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy
- Identify knowledge and gaps in advancing in the circular economy
- Awareness-raising
- Environmental training and capacity building, knowledge development
- Working with international partners to improve global environmental standards.
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
In tandem with the shift toward a more environmentally friendly future, the digital transformation and digitalisation of our everyday lives, as well as the collective activities of states and the EU, occupy an important place.
We believe in the potential of technology that is forward-thinking, easily accessible, and responsible, with the goal of leaving no one behind.
Our priorities are to:
- Reduce the digital gap through training for all
- Develop innovative digital tools and platforms for access to education, training, and culture for all, including people with special needs and seniors
- Explore methodology and tools focusing on a people-led digital transformation, to shift way of thinking and enhance the resilience of citizens, particularly in the labour market.
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP & HUMAN RIGHTS
Society is a multifaceted term that is regarded as a whole made up of many human individuals. Given the human tendency to interact and connect, the Let Her In network seeks to engage and empower individuals to participate in the co-design of their living environments actively. Individuals who are socially active and act as decision- and change-makers in their community should become the core value of every society at any level. We believe that civic participation is fully aligned with human rights that cover all the ideas, interests, characteristics, and beliefs of people and are highly significant in daily life.
Our priorities are to:
- Provide capacity-building opportunities for citizens to enhance their critical thinking and media literacy skills to understand and actively participate in democratic life
- Initiate the dialogue and participate in the design of what active citizenship means today
- Boost diverse representation, enhancing the voices of women equally and socially excluded minorities
- Raise awareness about a common european identity and contribute to a more robust sense of belonging
ACCESSIBILITY
To make an environment inclusive, one must allow everyone to enter and participate. Everyone should consider this an essential issue because we can all be hindered by physical, social, and economic hurdles that impede the progression of our lives and plans. Our aims include not only the creation of accessible surroundings, but also the training of people and the awareness-raising of this issue, so that people are aware that small adjustments can make a great difference for someone and allow for their full inclusion.
Our main priorities are to:
- Educate people on accessibility and how it is interpreted in everyday life, raising awareness about accessibility as an horizontal priority
- Create and design accessible education material, considering the inclusion of different people with different needs
- Highlight the interconnection between accessibility and other fields of action such as women empowerment, environmental sustainability and/or digital transformation.