Archive: GALE
Dutch government declares the end of the COVID-19 epidemic - March 02, 2023
March 2, 2023 - The Dutch COVID-19 outbreak team has declared an end to the COVID-19 epidemic. Previous research has shown how LGBTIQ+ people have been more affected by COVID-19 than the average population. GALE was involved in an international project to help provider mediate these unequal impacts. Now we face the question if we can sustain what we have learned during the epidemic. Are we returning to the “normal” (exclusion), or did we learn how to turn new ways to our advantage?
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The UNIQUE partnership stands in solidarity with LGBTIQ Prides - June 16, 2022
16 June 2022 - The UNIQUE partnership, consisting of 9 partners in 7 European countries, stands in solidarity with LGBTIQ* Prides in Europe and worldwide. The UNIQUE project promotes the full inclusion of all students in vocational education and training, including LGBTIQ students. GALE is part of the partnership.
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GALE launches survey on service provision for LGBTIQ+ during Covid-19 - September 23, 2021
23 September 2021 - Today, GALE launches an international survey to map how LGBTIQ+ people have experiences the Covid-19 epidemic, and whether the epidemic affected their possibilities to access necessary services. The survey is part of a needs assessment by the RAINBO partnership, which is active in 6 European countries: Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and the UK. The results will be used to develop an international online course for service providers.
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New project researches LGBTIQ discrimination in vocational education - March 27, 2021
27 March 2021 - A new European project embarks on a research on LGBTIQ discrimination in vocational education. The UNIQUE project focuses on training vocational teachers to become ambassadors of sexual and gender diversity, and the research is part of the needs assessment. GALE is one of the partners in the project and conducts the research both in the Netherlands, where it is based, and in other countries in Europe.
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GALE develops individual right to education survey - December 22, 2020
22 December 2020 - In addition to the Right to Education Checklist, GALE is now also developing a survey that can be filled in by individuals. The Right to Education Checklist is a policy checklist with 15 checkpoints. It monitors the level of implementation of the right to education for LGBTIQ+ students. However, the Checklist requires some knowledge about your country’s education policy. Many LGBTIQ+ people would like to contribute to the mapping, but don’t know about policy. They asked if GALE could develop a questionnaire that links their individual experiences with school with the national policy.
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Greek conference on homophobic bullying great success - September 27, 2019
27 September 2019 - With over 100 participants and an equal number of people following the HOMBAT conference on homophobic and transphobic bullying online, the event was a great success. The conference “Combatting HT bullying is schools” was the final event of the HOMBAT project, which trained over 600 teachers and school counselors in Greece, Cyprus and Lithuania. The trainers were trained and coached by GALE.
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First newsletter on LGBTI diversity in vocational education - September 12, 2019
12 September 2019 - Today, the SENSE-partnership published the first newsletter on how to integrate LGBTI issues in vocational training institutions. In education about LGBTI issues, vocational training is often neglected because it is often regarded as “technical”. However, in most jobs, soft skills like client or customer friendliness and being flexible and mindful are key 21st century skills everybody needs. In the My-ID method, which is being developed by the SENSE=-partnership, sensitivity for LGBTI issues is linked with such “deep diversity” skills.
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GALE inquires for cooperation or merge - August 07, 2019
7 August 2019 - GALE has send inquiries to 6 potential partners to closely cooperate with or merge the GALE key activities. In the past years, the backbone donors of GALE have withdrawn due to budgetary reasons or because they do not support mainstreaming LGBTI issues in the education system anymore. This threatens the financial stability of GALE. If GALE wants to sustain her activities, a choice has to be made to merge with a larger global organization or to fall back on only volunteer activities.
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Summer school on prosociality discusses risks of being social - July 21, 2019
21 July 2019 - Last week, participants in the international summer school on prosociality in Città di Castello, Italy, discussed the limits of being “prosocial” in world that quickly seems to become more selfish and ruthless. It became clear the concept of “prosociality” is not jus an unproblematic ambition of teaching students to be nice to each other. True prosociality includes being free to be yourself, free to make choices even when the majority does not like it and being free from discrimination. This makes prosociality a politically sensitive topic, especially in countries where dictators and right-wing populists are actively using the argument of religious freedom to establish fundamentalist and totalitarian control of society.
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Tryouts kick off to certify schools on their antibullying policy - April 02, 2019
2 April 2019 - In the next two months, pilots will take place in 8 high schools in 5 European countries to certify the quality of a school’s antibullying policy. The Antibullying Certification method is an initiative of the European Antibullying Network (EAN), and the development is lead by GALE. It is being developed by partners from across Europe thanks to Erasmus+ funding of the European Union. The intention is to make the certification inclusive for a range of diversities, including LGBTI.
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