<< Objectives >>Our project was aimed at developing and improving the understanding on gender equality of youth workers, youth leaders in order to become able to prepare, run and evaluate high quality youth work activities according to the principles of comics creations. We are surrounded by gender. It manifests itself as a pattern of relations that develop over time to define male and female, masculinity and femininity, simultaneously structuring and regulating people’s relation to society. Gender is embedded in our institutions, our actions, our beliefs, and our desires. It is rooted in the family, the neighbourhood, church, school, the media, walking down the street, eating in a restaurant, going to the restroom. Gender is asymmetrical. Whatever a person may feel about their current position on the social ladder, there is no question that male and female are not simply two equal sides of a coin. Inequality is built into gender at a very basic level, and what we experience as individuals emerges within a far-reaching social order that oppresses each of us. While the world is still obsessed with the continual differentiation of male and female, it is our job as youth workers to examine gender from a new perspective and research how this dichotomy came to be seen as common sense and contribute to our oppression. With our comics we wanted to look beyond the gender binary and try to re-appropriate it. As images are quite powerful in sending messages to young people, it is definitely a way for us to address all sorts of daily challenges we are facing. Therefore, we designed our project especially in that context: to challenge gender clichés with rich and powerful imaginary and tell stories with the visual language of the comics.Based on the results of the local researches, as consortium we had defined our common objectives and possible solutions for it through this project proposal such as to train youth workers lending their support to involve youth for gender equality. Gender equity and inequality were addressed through the use of creative digital tools because images are a powerful tool for reflection and call to action, and digital media has the widest impact reach. It was aimed at to bring everyone’s messages for gender equity and equality through comics that we also put in a joint comic book and presented in a public exhibition in our Youth Centre of Valdagno.So the overall aim was to train youth workers lending their support to involve youth for gender equality. Gender equity and inequality were addressed through the use of creative digital tools because images are a powerful tool for reflection and call to action, and digital media has the widest impact reach. It was aimed at to bring everyone’s messages for gender equity and equality through comics that we also put in a joint comic book and presented it in a public exhibition in the Youth Centre of Valdagno.Objectives were: 28 participants explored gender equity and inequity in youth work realities;28 participants shared non-formal learning activities and creative exercises on exploring gender, the roles of the socially assigned behaviour patterns and emotions to feel about it. 28 participants practiced digital youth work tools such as making comics and improve their digital youth work competences in order to fight against gender inequality. 1 public comics’ creation exhibition was implemented in Youth Centre of Valdagno in order to promote gender equality in the local community with for and by young people with fewer opportunities. 1 digital booklet was made including all digital youth work tools for promoting and supporting gender equality among young people: https://studioprogetto.org/womenity/12 youth exchanges were invented in order to support gender equity for young people from rural areas, having Roma, minority, refugees and migrants’ background.<< Implementation >>We implemented a training course entitled “Womentity” –on exploring gender equity and combating inequality through creative tools and methods within youth work activities at 09 – 18 December 2021, Recoaro Terme, Italy. The course was strongly based on experiential learning (learning by doing), with adequate time allocated for debriefing and reflection throughout the whole program as the process was highly personal and aimed for attitudinal changes therefore the reflection was very important part of the process (as the educational team was well aware of). Generally, the working methods were rather non-formal and participative. The methods were chosen in a way to allow for a maximum of substantial learning effects, meet the needs of the group and encourage a high level of participation in a very unique way in the process of the training. It was very important to take the “real-life” cases and the experience of the participants, their organizations and from other youth workers and from the field. The working methods used this training were chosen so that to offer the possibility of equal involvement of each participant, every person being stimulated to dialogue and intercultural learning, to reflection and experiential learning, to activation of personal resources. Methods were used e.g. ice-breakers, name games, short activities allowing participants to learn each other’s names, team-building activities, energizers, small group work, large group work, simulation activities and role plays, media workshops (new media, social media, multimedia), dance workshops, intercultural activities, open-space activities, peer review, self-evaluation.We hosted 28 participants and all were youth work practitioners: youth workers, cultural‘animators’ working with youth and youth support workers. Their target groups are rural youth, unemployed young people, minority members, young refugees and migrants.Our participants were all were identified and selected by our project partners. All they had the experience of working with young people from disadvantaged living conditions; rather of ethnic origin (Roma), migrants, refugees, young people from rural areas, and young people with disabilities. Each participant had either a personal or a professional link to the objectives of our project. All of them worked with young people with fewer opportunities in daily basis and were eager to learn a new method how to support gender equality in their local communities based on their interests and needs of the local communities. This project was a great learning opportunity for our participants and also for young people they work with in daily basis. There was a minimum requirement for all participants to be motivated and open mind to participate in an international project and towards gender equality. It was an advantage if they had previous experience in non-formal educational activities, in gender equality topics or in international activities - there was also a chance for participants with fewer opportunities because all project partners have undertaken such cooperation in the past.It was very important for all participants to have the ability to speak English - this was the key aptitude for managing the project.<< Results >>We planned 10 exhibitions in local level per partner based on the needs of our target groups through comics creations in order to support gender equality of young people with fewer opportunities and we will implement it in the next 2 years based on the possibilities during Pandemic.We have an ongoing exhibition in our Youth Centre of Valdagno on the prepared comics’ creations by participants.We published an e-booklet on digital and offline youth work methods on promoting gender equality among young people: https://studioprogetto.org/womenity/We planned together 12 international youth exchanges on promoting and supporting gender equality through comics’ creation supported by Erasmus+ programme in the next 3 years as outcomes of this project and we will apply and implement them in the following years. We had started partnership building among partners of our consortium in order to sustain the outcomes of our project within future intercultural cooperation. Professional learning development of our fellow youth workers, youth leaders as participants:They practiced how to make a storyboard for a comic creation. They practiced making a photonovela on gender topic. They practice their imaginations and writing skills in order to improve their comic creation. They explored how to communicate from such type of topics such as gender vs sex, lgbt+ rights, abortion and feminism with different target groups. They practiced to write storylines on gender issues based on DADA inspired gender poems. They created comics on chosen gender issues and presented it in the local exhibition in the Youth Centre of Valdagno and in the digital booklet of the project. Participants finalised their gender comics’ creations on choosing one of the gender issues a)Power: political, economic, social; b)Knowledge: attainment, segregation; c)Work: participation, segregation and quality of work; d)Violence: prevalence, severity, disclosure; e)Health: status, behavior, access; f)Time: care activities, social activities; g)Money: financial resources, economic situation. etc.