{"id":50214,"date":"2026-02-07T00:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/il-gender-mainstreaming-non-e-un-extra-e-design-europeo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:46:11","slug":"gender-mainstreaming-is-not-an-extra-it-is-european-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/en\/gender-mainstreaming-is-not-an-extra-it-is-european-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender mainstreaming is not an extra, it is European design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<div class=\"dfd-spacer-module\"  data-units=\"px\" data-wide_resolution=\"1280\" data-wide_size=\"40\" data-normal_resolution=\"1024\" data-normal_size=\"40\" data-tablet_resolution=\"800\" data-tablet_size=\"20\" data-mobile_resolution=\"480\" data-mobile_size=\"20\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Planning in Europe means making choices. Choices that speak to priorities, visions, and impacts.<br \/>\nAnd also to gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the first meeting of 2026 of the Torino Social Impact <strong>Community of Practice on Gender Equality<\/strong>, which I coordinate, began. It was dedicated to European planning and gender mainstreaming in programs and best practices.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Nuova Collaborazione and together with TSI-Weco, the European Projects HUB social enterprise, and Centro Studi Impacto, we worked on a seemingly simple question: <em>how can we make gender mainstreaming a structural part of European project design?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In my opening remarks, I emphasized that gender equality is not a separate issue, but a key to understanding EU policies and programs across the board.<\/p>\n<p>This led to practical implementation.<br \/>\nAlessia Ibba led the group of Erasmus+, CERV, and AMIF, demonstrating how gender mainstreaming is already embedded in the program architecture.<br \/>\nValentina Crepaldi and Silvia Fazio then delved deeper, applying these principles to a real-life project, transforming criteria and key words into concrete choices.<\/p>\n<p>A highly stimulating discussion ensued, even among those who had not previously had the opportunity to engage with gender mainstreaming, who understood that integrating the gender dimension is not just a matter of compliance, but of project quality.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.torinosocialimpact.it\/en\/comunita-di-pratica\/european-project-design-and-gender-mainstreaming-programs-and-best-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Community of Practice is supported by Camera di Commercio di Torino and the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation.[\/vc_column_text]<div class=\"dfd-spacer-module\"  data-units=\"px\" data-wide_resolution=\"1280\" data-wide_size=\"40\" data-normal_resolution=\"1024\" data-normal_size=\"40\" data-tablet_resolution=\"800\" data-tablet_size=\"20\" data-mobile_resolution=\"480\" data-mobile_size=\"20\" style=\"height: 40px;\"><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Planning in Europe means making choices. 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This is where the first meeting of&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/en\/gender-mainstreaming-is-not-an-extra-it-is-european-design\/\">Continua a leggere<span> Gender mainstreaming is not an extra, it is European design<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3605],"tags":[3614,3615,3616],"class_list":["post-50214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality","tag-gender","tag-gender-equality","tag-gender-gap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gender mainstreaming is not an extra, it is European design - Monica Cerutti<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monicacerutti.com\/en\/gender-mainstreaming-is-not-an-extra-it-is-european-design\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gender mainstreaming is not an extra, it is European design - Monica Cerutti\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image source=&#8221;featured_image&#8221; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Planning in Europe means making choices. 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