Stories X/F/M aims to make youth workers, community workers, storytellers working with youth in non-formal education and youth in general aware of the impact of narratives on gender related issues...

Stories X/F/M aims to make youth workers, community workers, storytellers working with youth in non-formal education and youth in general aware of the impact of narratives on gender related issues like gender equality, gender diversity and gender identity and to offer them tools to help address these issues by means of storytelling and storytelling techniques which in turn will help create (new) narratives youth can (better) identify with.

5 Partners from Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, North-Macedonia and Italy will collaborate on 5 work packages designed to create the following activities *A thorough research on the power of narratives and the influence old stories still have on gender norms *4 Case Studies, to work with youth and to test te toolkit and to create alternatiev stories with youth *1 joint staff training *5 trainings for youth workers *3 transnational projectmeetings *4 local and 1 international multiplier events

We expect to deliver the following outputs: *A research report on the influence of narratives on behaviour *A toolkit with guidelines for professionals working with youth. *Reports on the 4 case studies in which the tools were test *A publication with alternative stories created by youth that will come out of the case studies *A blueprint for a training, using the tools *A digital portal containing the Foundation Bricks, publication of alternative stories and toolkit and guidelines