COPGENDERED Project

This project enabled a three-year collaboration entitled: “Gender and Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment”, in brief COPGendered that build the capacities of at least 7 associations and networks, but through their developed materials, training and multiplier events had a much broader outreach. The COPGendered project builds up tools and knowledge for learners to upskill themselves (in groups, individually or with a teacher) in the relationships between gender inequality and the climate crisis. This includes providing tools for adult education providers. The project which lasts for three years ends in November 2025.

The associations involved are in this project: WIDE+ (Europe) as the lead, LIFE e.V in Germany (previously GenderCC), WIDE in Austria, GADIP in Sweden, KULU Women and Development in Denmark, Mundubat in Spain and CSCD in Bulgaria. It ended in November 2025.

This project aimed to create materials for adult learners to deepen the understanding of citizens around the interrelationships between gender inequality and climate vulnerabilities. As well as build their skills to promote gender and climate justice as citizens. The role of gender inequality is often forgotten in the problem definition of climate change. This project showed the deeply social and political nature of climate change in its impacts and also as possiiblities for ways forward. The project aimed to contribute to increased mobilisation and democratic participation of citizens, especially of women* in all their diversity, linking demands for economic and social justice, inclusion and gender equality with environmental sustainability and climate justice, and giving them confidence to speak about gender issues from an intersectional perspective (e.g. including migrant women, LGBTQI folks, etc.) in the context of climate policies.

Concretely the project has:
• Built the capacity of providers of adult education in skills and knowledge on the relationships between gender and climate justice, and methods and pedagogical tools to carry adult education learning in groups and online.
• Provided adult learners, in particular women, migrant women and people of LGBTQ* communities tools individual online learning or learning in groups to upskill their basic knowledge about the linkages between gender and climate change.
• Through (trans)national exchange built the capacity of the partnering organisations, enabling them to strengthen or build policies and programmes to educate, advocate, raise awareness, inform wider audiences more comprehensively on the relations between gender inequality and climate as well as environmental crisis.
• Strengthened our transnational collaboration, which has bolster impacts not only at local and national levels, but also the European level, with concrete follow up actions planned

This project is funded by the European Union, as part of the Erasmus+ programme. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the writers and participants and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Project Outcomes

This project has been build around collectively developing three educational resources for adult learners, as individual learners online and offline, and as introduction and deepening of knowledge, as well as learners in group meetings, in the form of a small workshop or a series of meetings.

The Project activities are as follows:

PROJECT RESULT 1: Introduction/Toolkit

This toolkit contains a briefing paper (length: 8 pages) with 5 thematic factsheets (each 3-4 pages) on gender equality and climate justice in seven languages (English, German, Bulgarian, Danish, Spanish, French and Swedish). Each paper can also be read separately from the other materials. The briefing paper “gender and climate justice” introduces the intersections of inequality and climate change. The objective is to enable any person, but in particular women and people with non-conforming gender identities, that are engaged as active citizens, to quickly gain some basic understanding in the interrelationships between gender and climate justice.

As a part of this project, a series of briefing papers delving into specific themes on the nexus of gender and climate justice was developed. The individual briefing papers are available in multiple languages and cover the following topics:

Compiled files of all the individual briefing papers in each language are also available via the links below:

Summary Output: the toolkit will have provided a basic introduction on the above-mentioned topics that allow readers to understand the linkages, and together though the methodologies developed in the other two project results, they will enable deeper learning, through repetition and different methods to better remember and understand the provided knowledge.


PROJECT RESULT 2: Online Trainers Resource bank

The Online trainers resource hub “Gender & Climate Justice: Knowledge for Empowerment” are methods that can be used by any person that is facilitating or training a group of people. It can be used by people that are not experienced in this field up to experienced trainers. Obviously experienced facilitators or trainers will be familiar with some of the details provided for facilitation, as the methods also describe the common steps to start and complete an event. Most methods describe singular events, some describe an approach of multiple training meetings.

All methodologies are available in English and can be used as a standalone tool. Components include the pedagogical approach, learning gaols and obviously the methodological instructions, including relevant background materials, resources or suggestions on where to find them.

Download the methods below:

A Climate Mobility Scenario Through Role Play, by WIDE in Austria
Body Mapping, a Feminist methodology connecting Experiences with Climate Change, by E Georgiadi on behalf of LIFE e.V in Germany
Caring for and Defending Life, by Mundubat in Spain
The Climate Challenge, by WIMEN in Austria
Climate & “Comics – Say it with your own words” and “Pics & Slogans”, by WIMEN in Austria
Climate Justice Bingo, by GADIP in Sweden
Countering Fake News on Climate Change and Women’s Rights, by CSCD in Bulgaria
Debating for Socio-environmental Advocacy, by J, Jáuregui in Spain
Design Thinking, Neighbourhood Laboratories, by LIFE e.V. in Germany
Uncovering the Voice on Feminist Urban Planning through Photo’s, by KULU Women and Development in Denmark
Gender and Disability Climate Game, by Light for the World in Austria
Get Ready To Engage, a method to learn about and engage with gender, LGBTQI rights and climate justice, by GADIP in Sweden
Lego® Serious Play® as Method for connecting to Gender and Climate Justice, by E. Wright Veintimilla in Sweden
PARAT – Constellation Game to promote Gender and Climate Justice Awareness, by WIDE in Austria
UNDAMMED, An audio-visual approach to Feminism and Climate Action, by CSCD in Bulgaria
What Migrants Carry with Them, by WIDE in Austria


PROJECT RESULT 3:E-learning Tool: “Capacity building on the link between Gender & Climate Justice”.

Adult learners will individually be able to master basic knowledge and insight about the relationships between gender inequality and issues relating to the climate crises through this online platform. It consists of 6 modules which can be completed and accessed independently. Topics are the same as for the briefing papers. The learning time will be around 90-120 minutes per module/week, to be completed at one’s own pace.

The e-learning tool is a free interactive course consisting of separate e-learning modules that guides learners through the complex interconnections between gender and climate justice, featuring engaging videos, inputs, and exercises. Key topics include climate, gender, LGBTIQ+, mobility, energy, and extractivism, with examples from both the Global South and Global North.

The content is available in English, and Google Translate can be used to access the course in any preferred language. Explore the platform and enroll here: https://comm.gendercc.net/.

 

PROJECT RESULT 4: international training:

Read the report of the first international Capacity Building event: Gender and climate justice knowledge for empowerment, held on 2 and 3 June 2023 in Vienna, Austria.

GADIP organised with KULU and Mundubat the COPGendered International Conference on 19 January 2024: Read report

Read the report on the second International Capacity Building event: Gender and Climate Justice organised by Center for Sustainable Communities Development in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 6 June 2024.

Read the report on the third International Capacity Building event: Gender and Climate Justice, a European feminist dialogue to explore future action organised by WIDE+, in Brussels, Belgium, on 6 June 2025.

PROJECT RESULT 6: Multiplier Events

The following multieplier events were held among others:

 

Summary Output: The multiplier events serve as a basis to elaborate, work with, and disseminate our information materials and training tools. Participatory associations and other associations providing adult education will learn about participatory adult education approaches and methods with the aim to build knowledge jointly. The activities will support promoting advocacy and alliance building between women´s organisations and climate justice initiatives.