Diversity and Childhood - Sokszínűség és gyermekkor

Between October 2019 and September 2021 Háttér Society is implementing an international training, capacity building and awareness raising project entitled Diversity and Childhood - Changing social attitudes towards gender diversity in children across Europe.

Objectives: 

• social diagnosis: analyzing the situation concerning violence against LGBTQI and gender-nonconform children,
• collecting good practices in the field of education, healthcare, family, public spaces and media,
• awareness raising among professionals, institutions, peer groups and children,
• tackling gender based violence directed at LGBTQI children,
• promoting cooperation between public bodies and civil society organizations.

Activities:

• Needs assessment (LGBTQI children, professionals) 
• Collecting good practices 
• Developing working methods and tools for professionals
• Training of trainers (capacity building)
•  Awareness raising on diversity and GBV and its impacts: trainings, workshops, scholarly publications, articles

Project partners: 

• University of Girona (Spain) - coordinator
• Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
• KMOP (Greece)
• Lambda Warsawa (Poland)
• Zagreb Pride (Croatia)
• University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• CES (Centro de Estudos Sociais) (Portugal)
• Háttér Society (Hungary)
• Cavaria (Belgium)
• LGL (Lithuania)

The project is co-funded by the Rights, equality and citizenship (2014-2020) program of the European Union. The REC program provides a funding of EUR 528 410  for the whole project, of which EUR 44 834 covers costs in Hungary.