An Erasmus + project with Estonia and the Czech Republic
Starting in 2019, KUN together with Genderove informacni centrum NORA (Czech Republic) and the Eesti Naisteühenduste Ümarlaua Sihtasutus (Estonia) were granted Erasmus + funding to work on gender-sensitive education in schools. 
The project aims to focus on the gender segregation in education and what effects can be found on a societal level. Representing three European countries with differing demographics, geographies, histories and current gender roles, the project partners will be offering their own insights while encouraging those taking the course to reflect on their own experiences, biases, privileges and possibilities. 

The project addresses the issue of gender in education. It aims at enhancing teachers’ sensitivity to gender issues. In this way, it will contribute to more inclusive classroom environments where girls and boys can develop their competencies in a safe and welcoming atmosphere without the pressure of restrictive gender stereotypes.
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Gender differences are often taken for granted in a school environment, but gender stereotypes have a strong influence on the achievement of children, and if teachers are not sensitive to issues related to gender, the school environment can reinforce sexist patterns in children’s everyday lives. The goal of this project is to help teachers be reflective on the existing gender order and gender stereotypes in society and their own biases, and act against this order. It is a very important component of the teachers’ competencies.
For more information, see the Czech partner's website, mainly in English (opens in a new window).

​May 2020: Covid-19 and changes to the project progress plan
Due to the Covic-19 closedown in Europe starting mid-March, the planned joint staff training event, to take place in Steinkjer March 16th to 20th, was cancelled on very short notice. We have tentatively re-scheduled the event for March 2021. 

The project group meeting in Tallinn planned for late June has similarly been cancelled and tentatively re-scheduled for October 2020. Work on the Intellectual Outputs will proceed as planned, with consultations on digital platforms.

KUN (NO), Ekvalita (FI), Elevernas Riksforbund (SE) in the project "Safe schools" will develop a common Nordic method based on norm criticism to create an inclusive and equal school with a focus on increased student participation.

This will be done through five different work packages with the inclusion of student councils, principals and student representatives in upper secondary schools and secondary schools in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Åland.

We will end the project with a digital launch for the project's target groups: rectors, student councils and student representatives in the Nordics. The student representatives will be the ones who continue the work and spread the method further in their own countries.

The project manager at KUN is Karin Hovde.

Through the project, we will carry out a network gathering among queers in Sápmi, for the exchange of experience and organizational development. The aim is to strengthen the queer Sami organization and in that way build up more and better meeting places for the whole of Sápmi. In the long term, more meeting places and a stronger queer Sami organization will contribute to more openness and knowledge, both among queer Sami, but also the general population.

The network gathering will bring together participants from the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian sides. Such network gathering has two main purposes:

• Bring together queer environments across Sápmi, to exchange experiences and talk about the way forward for queer Sami organisation, as well as planning future meeting places
• Organizational development through getting to know the organizational processes from the various parts of Sápmi and increasing competence in practical organizational work

The project is financed by Nordisk Ministeråd, and is a collaboration between KUN, Garmeres Norge, Sameföreningen i Stockholm Sweden and Suomi Sami Nuorat Finland.

Social and Legal Actions to Combat Honor Related Abuses 2019 – 2021, EEA Grants 
In cooperation with Center for Development of Sustainable Communities (Bulgaria) and Women Lawyers Association (Bulgaria) 
​The project gave focus to the problem of honor related violence existent in the Bulgarian and Norwegian societies. The partnership organizations worked towards creating awareness about the issue and to the present inadequate protection of honor violence victims. During the project implementation, an analysis of the existing policies on the issue was carried out, recommendations for changes in policies and legislation aimed at the prevention of honor related violence were developed and presented to public institutions.

ENVOLVI 2019 – 2021, EEA Grants
In cooperation with Novo Dia - Associação para a Inclusão Social (Portugal)
The defense of human rights of elderly people living in the Azores (Portugal) is the focus of the present project, aiming to foster healthy intergenerational relations to strengthen social cohesion and promote active citizenship and aging. The project includes activities that acknowledge and value the potential of older generations, as well as the issue of isolation and violence against the elderly is given focus to. ​

JUWOBA (Justice to women exposed to violence in the Barents region) 2010- 2011
Funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services
The goal of the project was to map and discuss society’s institutionalization of measures to ensure justice for victims of violence. Through four seminars in the Barents Region, Norwegian and Russian representatives from health care, the police, the judicial system, organizations working with state compensation to victims of violence and crisis centers exchanged knowledge and discussed their experience from their respective work fields