Project CAREdiZO (CARE Driven Innovation for Gender Mainstreaming in Home, Micro-Enterprises & Micro-CSOs) aims to bridge the gender care gap by promoting gender-transformative approach in homes, micro-enterprises, and micro-civil society organizations. Through the use of innovative digital tools, the project fosters gender equality in caregiving and workplace.

Objectives

• Promote work-life balance policies in micro-enterprises and micro-CSOs (organizations with fewer than 10 employees, which represent 93.5%) by enhancing the capacity of their directors and HR staff and encouraging alignment with the Work-Life Balance Directive.
• Challenge gender stereotypes to encourage equal sharing of informal caregiving responsibilities (e.g., childcare, domestic chores, and care of older people) and promote men’s uptake of paternity and parental leave.
• Encourage Mirco-Enterprises and Micro-CSOs to gender mainstream their policies and practices.
• Raise awareness of the value of care work and highlight the soft skills it develops, such as time management, empathy, and problem-solving.
• Strengthen cross-sectoral, national, and transnational cooperation among key stakeholders to create sustainable solutions for bridging the gender care gap.

How we will achieve these objectives

• Conduct desk research and create a community of practice and online co-creation workshops to engage target groups and policy makers, gather best practices, and develop practical solutions for micro-enterprises and micro-CSOs to bridge the gender care gap.
• Develop a serious game, an e-course, and targeted training programs for trainers, mentors, and HR professionals within micro-enterprises and micro-CSOs to gender mainstream their policies and practices.
• Launch a podcast series and serious game that defy gender stereotypes, raise awareness about the importance of caregiving, and promote equitable responsibility sharing.
• Organise four national and one transnational multiplier event in order to spread knowledge, best practices, and project outcomes with a wider number of stakeholders.

Партньори по проекта са:

• Challedu, Greece
• WoT, Greece
• WIIC, Lithuania
• NBDN, Bulgaria
• MIGS, Cyprus

Project № 101191047 — CAREdiZO — CERV-2024-GE