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As a continuation of the project “Unvealing Aversive Discrimination – UAV “, Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation took the challenge to work as a subcontractor on the project ADAT- Aversive Discrimination Awareness Training . The Bulgarian partner for the project is “Znanie” Association, which has long time working in the field of adult learning, and in recent years with European Union Lifelong Learning Program.

АDAT will analyse how aversive discrimination (in particular aversive disablism, sexism and homophobia), can influence the learning paths of learners and, in general, the organization and provision of adult education. Aversive discrimination will be addressed in an intersectional perspective. Intersectionality refers to the interaction of two or more forms of discrimination that compound to form multiple discriminations.

A web course to promote the awareness of aversive discrimination and strategies to cope successfully with it will be planned, organized, tested and evaluated in two different settings: teachers working in adult education, in Austria, and professionals giving consultancy in adult training, in Italy. Once tested, the web course will become part of the education offer of all the partners and will be spread in the Partners international networks.

ADAT activities will be widely disseminated through the Partners’ networks and through numerous localized outputs as course manuals, website, flyers, newsletters. By the end of the project a meeting in Brussels will present the project to EU representatives and politicians.

The aim is to offer a course that can help professionals working in adult education and training to better understand issues related to disabilities, gender issues and sexual orientation. As a consequence they will become able of planning and conducting learning and training activities really inclusive. Participants at the end of the course will be able, for example, to establish that disabilit means more than physical, sensory or learning impairments, identify the issues and possible solutions so that people with disabilities, women, homosexuals are not discriminated against in the learning setting, improve contact with people with disabilities, highlight good and poor practices in relation to inclusion, understand how women coming from different countries may have different beliefs and expectations in relation to gender issues, identify aversive homophobia, etc.

The duration of the project is two years from November 2008 till november 2010.

More information could be found on the web site of the projet here