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The main objective of MIRROR is to increase the proportion of girls participating in technology, especially in mechanical engineering, IT and electronics, by developing motivational education and increasing the appeal of opportunities in these industrial sectors.The project will create, test and implement new types of training and learning methods; it will also develop motivating learning materials for use in all levels of education. The utilisation of information technology as a natural part of the everyday life and learning of young girls will be supported. There will also be special training in ICT and e-learning provided for female teachers.The project seeks to increase the attractiveness of the mechanical engineering, IT and electronics industries by providing updated information. The aim is to increase the understanding of the opportunities offered today and in the future, by technology based industries. The target group covers young people, as well as their parents, teachers and study counsellors.The MIRROR project is divided into several subprojects which collaborate as a Development Partnership-DP at all levels of the education system.The project is actively collaborating with a range of Finnish partners as well as European partners from several countries in VOICES Transnational partnership. The project will publish its results and good practice for use throughout the EU.There is a persistently low participation of girls in technical education & training, especially in the disciplines of mechanical engineering, IT and electronics. This is one of the central concerns in the branch of the Ministry of Education as well. Previous research and practical experience has attributed reasons for this low participation to the perceptions girls have of technology and technical based jobs. Girls also consider education in these sub-jects to be dull and disinteresting. Perceptions such as these are important as they ulti-mately influence career choice, reducing the proportion of girls willing to work in these in-dustry sectors. Technology, like all other areas of life, needs the female perspective. The MIRROR project challenges old fashioned attitudes towards job segregation which claim that there are jobs better suited for men and conversely, jobs better suited for women. The MIRROR project aims to change attitudes by offering positive examples and role models as well as by de-veloping motivational education and learning methods.

Objective

Innovation

Nature of the experimental activities to be implemented	Rating
Guidance, counselling	***
Training	****
Training on work place	**
Work placement	**
Training of teachers, trainers and staff	****
Anticipation of technical changes	**
Work organisation, improvement of access to work places	**
Awareness raising, information, publicity	****
Studies and analysis of discrimination features	***

Type of innovation	Rating
Process-oriented	**
Goal-oriented	***

Budget Action 2

2 000 000 – 5 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Assistance to persons	M	F
Unemployed	30.0%	60.0%
Employed	5.0%	5.0%
Others (without status, social beneficiaries...)	0.0%	0.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Migrants, ethnic minorities, …	0.0%	0.0%
Asylum seekers	0.0%	0.0%
Population not migrant and not asylum seeker	10.0%	90.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Physical Impairment	0.0%	0.0%
Mental Impairment	0.0%	0.0%
Mental Illness	0.0%	0.0%
Population not suffering from a disability	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
Substance abusers	0.0%	0.0%
Homeless	0.0%	0.0%
(Ex-)prisoners	0.0%	0.0%
Other discriminated (religion, sexual orientation)	0.0%	0.0%
Without such specific discriminations	50.0%	50.0%
	100.0%
	M	F
< 25 year	30.0%	60.0%
25 - 50 year	5.0%	5.0%
> 50 year	0.0%	0.0%
	100.0%

Assistance to structures and systems and accompanying measures	Rating
Gender discrimination	***
Discrimination and inequality in employment	***

Promoting individual empowerment

Empowerment

With beneficiaries

Participation

Changing attitudes and behavior of key actors

Between national partners

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Each national partner is responsible for a specific subproject.

Transnationality

Linguistic skills

English
Deutsch
svenska
suomi

Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

10.0%

Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Transnational Co-operation Agreement	DPs involved
232 Voices	AT 4-18/01 DK 14 UKgb 29
2886 EQUAL VOICES	AT 4-18/01 DK 14 ES ES478 UKgb 29

Background

Involvment in previous EU programmes

One partner involved in A&E

Networking

Interest in networking

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Will be presented later.

Events

Last update: 15-05-2002 Top

Will be presented later.

Products

N.C.

National Partners

Partner	To be contacted for
Teknologiateollisuus ry.	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Evaluation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Federation of Finnish Metal and Engineering and Electrotechnical Industries
Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki University, dpt. of Teacher Education
Oulu University
Satakunta Polytechnic
Tampere Polytechnic
The Virtual Polytechnic of Finland
Vantaa Vocational Institute

Agreement Summary

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MIRROR is parner in the Voices Transnational Partnership. VOICES will exploit the diversity of the individual DPs’ activities to capture the aspirations and experiences of a wide range of men and women who have contributed to overcoming gender and ethnic stereotyping in learning and work.These experiences and responses will enable the partnership to produce and publish a body of role models, and to capture attitudes and ideas about present stereotyping and future prospects from women and men affected, their families, careers counsellors, trainers and teachers and employers.All of this material will be shared freely between the partners and published in English. Individual partners will be responsible for translating the material they choose into other partnership languages.These reflections of direct experience will also be fed into the partnership’s final joint product, a catalogue, drawn from partners’ experiences, of promising approaches to combating gender and ethnic stereotyping.This process, and the development of other partnership activities, will be generated by a series of networking workshops, bringing together expert staff from each of the partners.These workshops will address specific themes and strands of activity that partner countries will be delivering. The intention is to provide forums where the actors from the partner countries can meet to generate and share ideas and approaches; where people can present information and answer questions; where good personal working relationships are fostered; where partner staff can outline next steps. The workshops will be a major channel to allow the planning and progress of the different strands of cooperation viz the exchange of trainees/trainers/staff, the joint development, import, export and adoption of new approaches, the parallel development of innovative approaches and the exchange of information and experiences.These workshops will filter the most promising approaches and types of action, carefully evaluating the measures and processes used and taking into account individual national contexts.

P.O.Box 10
Eteläranta 10
FIN-00131 Helsinki
www.mirror4u.net

Teknologiateollisuus ry.

Tel:+358 9 192 33 84
Fax:+358 9 635 855
Email:kirsti.miettinen@teknologiateollisuus.fi


Responsibility in the DP:	Co-ordination of experimental activities Design of the project DP managing organisation Evaluation Monitoring, data collection Transnational partnership
Type of organisation:	Employers' organisation
Legal status:	Semi-public organisation
Size:	Staff 10-50
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-11-2001 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Leponen	Ulpu Ms.	+358 9 1923 256	ulpu.leponen@ teknologiateollisuus.fi	Financial reporting
Miettinen	Kirsti Ms.	+358 9 192 33 84	kirsti.miettinen@ teknologiateollisuus.fi	DP management, transnational coordination
VonFlittner	Teea Ms.	+358 9 1923 341	teea.vonflittner@ teknologiateollisuus.fi	Communications and marketing

(MET)
P.O.Box 10
FIN-00131 Helsinki

Federation of Finnish Metal and Engineering and Electrotechnical Industries

Tel:+358 9 1923 21
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Employers' organisation
Legal status:	Semi-public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Piili	Timo Mr.	+358 9 1923 21	timo.piili@met.fi	Coordination of subproject, school-industry cooperation

(HUT)
P.O.Box 2300
FIN-02015 TKK
www.hut.fi

Helsinki University of Technology

Tel:+ 358 9 4511
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	University / Research organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Kaartinen	Sini Ms.	+358 9 451 4904	sini.kaartinen@hut.fi	coordination of subproject

P.O.Box 38
FIN-00014 Helsinki University
http://www.malux.edu.helsinki.fi/malu/tutkimus/gisel/toiminta

Helsinki University, dpt. of Teacher Education

Tel:+358 9 191 28 138
Fax:+358
Email:jari.lavonen@helsinki.fi


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	University / Research organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Juuti	Kalle Mr.	+358	kalle.juuti@helsinki.fi	Project coordination, implementation, research
Lavonen	Jari Mr.	+358 9 191 28 138	jari.lavonen@helsinki.fi	Overall Management of Gisel, TN-coordination, reserch

(HUT)
P.O.Box 3000
FIN-90014 Oulun yliopisto
www.oulu.fi

Oulu University

Tel:+ 358 40 512 8948
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	University / Research organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	01-03-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Juntunen	Sari Ms.	+358 40 512 8948	sari.juntunen@oulu.fi	coordination of subproject

(SAMK)
Tekniikan Porin yksikkö
Tekniikantie 2
FIN-28600 Pori
www.samk.fi

Satakunta Polytechnic

Tel:+358 2 620 3168
Fax:
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Education / training organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Vähäsavo	Hanna Ms.	+358 2 8393 5056	hanna.vahasavo@tp.spt.fi	coordination of subproject

(TAMK)
Teiskontie 33
FIN-33521 Tampere
www.tpu.fi

Tampere Polytechnic

Tel:+ 358 3 264 7248
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Education / training organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Tapaninaho	Heidi Ms.	+358 3 264 7248	heidi.tapaninaho@tpu.fi	coordination of subproject

(VirAMK)
P.O.Box 21
FIN-33521 Tampere
www.virtuaaliamk.fi

The Virtual Polytechnic of Finland

Tel:+ 358 3 2647 111
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Education / training organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff < 10
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Rautajoki	Marja Ms.	+ 358 3 2647 111	marja.rautajoki@viramk.fi	coordination of subproject

(VAKES)
Ojahaantie 5
FIN-01600 Vantaa

Vantaa Vocational Institute

Tel:+358 9 839 35 056
Fax:+358
Email:


Responsibility in the DP:
Type of organisation:	Education / training organisation
Legal status:	Public organisation
Size:	Staff 50-250
NUTS code:
Date of joining / leaving:	15-05-2002 /

Contact person(s)

Name	First name	Phone	E-mail	Responsibility
Vuorinen	Reeta Ms.	+358 9 839 35 056	reeta.vuorinen@edu.vantaa.fi	Coordination of subproject, tutor coordination

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MIRROR

Rationale

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