Project “GRASE – Gender and Race Stereotypes Eradication in labour market access”

GRASE’s overall objective is to contribute to reduce gender and race gaps by combining expert knowledge on gender and migration with the practical knowledge of career counselling professionals.

• identifying the necessity to improve career counselling services’ ability to recognize and address gender and race stereotypes
• implementing Community of practices (COP) at two levels

1. 1. activating a COP in each of the three countries involving professionals who work both in private and public career counselling services
   2. promoting exchange at the international level between the three country-level COPs also through study-visits

• using knowledge, existing data and evidence in order to 1) develop the overall theoretical framework of the project with the aim to provide tools for thoroughly understanding the “double-discrimination” lived by migrant women and 2) develop the definition of coherent intervention strategies

• defining three toolkits, through a simultaneous analysis of maps of critical and good practices in career counselling services and of the data and the evidence collected in the research activities of the project
• testing the intervention strategies in the three countries
• training staff of  career counselling services in the three countries
• sensitizing IT professionals to develop gender and race-sensitive job search and skills matching digital platforms
• increasing awareness about gender and race stereotypes
• engaging EU-level stakeholders in a debate