The presentation of grants from the Icelandic Equality Fund took place at a ceremony in I\u00f0n\u00f3 on 19 June. Almost 100 million kr\u00f3nur were available for allocation, and grants were awarded to projects and research aimed at promoting gender equality. Eygl\u00f3 Har\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, Minister for Social Affairs and Housing, presented the grants. The project by the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Youth Council, \u201eShadow Elections in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur\u201c, was one of the projects to receive a grant on this occasion.<\/p>\n
The Youth Council project aims to engage young people in democracy by holding so-called \u201cshadow elections' in secondary schools in the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur (possibly also in the junior secondary sections of primary schools). The model for such mock elections is based on a system the Norwegians have been using since 1989 specifically to engage and spark the interest of secondary school students in democracy. Youth wings of political parties, for example, visit schools to introduce pupils to the democratic process and elections. It was Mar\u00eda Birna J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir of the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Youth Council who accepted a 500,000 kr\u00f3na grant from the Minister for Social Affairs and Housing.<\/p>\n
42 applicants received a grant<\/strong><\/p>\n A total of 114 applications for grants for a variety of projects were received, with the total amount requested being 570 million kr\u00f3na. This time, 42 applicants were awarded grants. In accordance with the rules, the board of the fund places an emphasis on providing funding for projects that, among other things, aim to promote equality in the labour market, highlight the social and economic benefits of equality, combat gender-based violence, fall under development projects in the school system, encourage young people to increase their social participation and political activity, and shed light on the status of the sexes, both in the present and the past. This is the first time grants have been awarded from the Equality Fund of Iceland, which was established last year by a resolution of the Althingi no. 13\/144, to mark the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Iceland. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Afhending styrkja \u00far Jafnr\u00e9ttissj\u00f3\u00f0i \u00cdslands f\u00f3r fram vi\u00f0 h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0lega ath\u00f6fn \u00ed I\u00f0n\u00f3 \u00feann 19. j\u00fan\u00ed. T\u00e6plega 100 millj\u00f3nir kr\u00f3na voru til \u00fathlutunar og voru styrkir veittir til verkefna og ranns\u00f3kna sem mi\u00f0a a\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 efla jafnr\u00e9tti kynjanna. Eygl\u00f3 Har\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, f\u00e9lags- og h\u00fasn\u00e6\u00f0ism\u00e1lar\u00e1\u00f0herra afhenti styrkina. Verkefni Ungmennar\u00e1\u00f0s Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u201eSkuggakosningar \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i\u201c var eitt \u00feeirra verkefna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}