How do we focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and clusters to a more equal footing? And what can be gained at this in terms of development, increased profitability and innovation? These issues as well as an interesting investment in new mobile technologies for tourism fits within the EU project Quadruple Helix Central Baltic.

Quadrupleprojektet attacking other words, inequality is at the corporate and cluster from two angles: One is about to affect business promotion structures such as cluster initiative, entrepreneurship programs and innovative efforts by developing and implementing methods, models and tools for gender mainstreaming. The second cluster of its own investments in a sector where many women are active, namely tourism. The project envisages the possibility for small businesses to be part of a pilot study with new innovations in the form of mobile solutions being tested and developed in terms of tourism industry needs.

Quadruple is an initiative of Norrtälje and BalticFem which together with partners such as the Royal Institute of Technology, the County Administrative Board of Stockholm, Euro House, Läänemaa Tourism Association and the Saaremaa University Centre (Estonia) and Abo Akademi University (Finland) runs the project.

Quadruple funded by the Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 and Resource Program / Growth Authority.
Project period: Two years.
Budget: € 997 298th
Read more at www.quadruplehelix.eu

Male violence against women, prostitution and trafficking is a complex problem that is fundamentally rooted in gender inequality. The men against women for the violence is a serious and widespread social problem. It occurs in all ages, social classes, professions and neighborhoods. The assault is a process that often begins with controlling behavior by her husband.

If there were men who believed that it is their natural right to buy women and children as commodities for their own enjoyment, we would not have prostitution and sexual exploitation. Sweden are both the ultimate goal as a transit country in the cynical trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is going around the clock throughout the world. To prevent and discourage the purchase of sexual services in Sweden and abroad needed different information and training with the goal of changing attitudes.

Attitudes and values are formed early. Studies have shown that the perceptions that exist among school pupils at the girls and boys show a clear pattern of gender roles. Awareness of one's own use of these gender-related beliefs may be missing. Several of the young people in one study (Wisén 2007) reported that teachers in the school treated girls and boys likadant, but was still able to give examples of it actually was different in practice.

Many seem not to know where the line between okay sex and raped. And many - both boys and girls - girls who like to have provocative clothing, is intoxicated or are sexually active must blame themselves if they are raped. These and other prejudices about sex and the requirement to always be neat and make available to many people's sexual self-confidence is low. And then growing uncertainty over what is okay sex and what is sexual abuse.

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