To make conditions more conducive to exercising equality rights . Recipe n.47 . What "Job and Equal Opportunities: knowing for proposing" This project - started in 1992 by the Equal Opportunities Office of the Province of Catania - created in order to enhance the promotion of positive actions within the framework of the job organisation, making also an action of vulgarisation of the laws supporting Equal Opportunities towards the women working at the Province, the majors of the province of Catania and the students - boys and girls - of last year of the secondary school, has become a real action, able to be performed, when it has been agreed with a deliberation by the Province. How much Evaluation of financial ressources: It has been performed by the Province. Source; The financial ressources to be used in order to implement the project are issued by the budget of the Province Destination (Who/What): The resources have been used for the printing of a booklet about laws and also for the realisation of a seminar for the teachers involved in E.O. Further financial ressources will be issued by the Province in order to publish a booklet which will contain the more qualifying proposals of positive actions presented by the students.   How   The project is subdivided into a number of phases:   creation of a booklet, by the E.O Office, called "from the defence of rights to the valorisation of diversity"; printing and distribution of this booklet to the workers of the Province, to the mayors of the province, to the teachers involved in E.O., to the students; seminar for the women working at the Province; seminar for the teachers involved in E.O.; holding of a competitive examination for the students for the creation of compositions about positive actions; printing of a booklet containing the most significant proposals made by the students, and its diffusion to the istitutions. Why The idea of planning this action was initially started from the fact that the Equal Opportunities Committee noticed that the women working at the Province had a scarce knowledge of the concepts of indirect discrimination, equal opportunities and positive action. So they have considered that the diffusion of the laws is in fact a positive action. Results 'The effectiveness of this project has been measured by a number of indicators:   the women working for the Province have had a new perspective on the organisation of their work, discussing some items which look like neutrals, but being in fact indirect discriminations; in many towns of the province of Catania the Equal Opportunities Committees have been funded, and many positive actions have been planned; some teachers have planned positive actions to be performed within the school where they work, being supported by the Equal Opportunities Office and sometimes by the financial support of the Province; a great number of students has applied the competitive examination held by the Province; this action will be able to create new activities, because the proposals of the students could be a valid indication for the projectation of new positive actions.   References for further informazion: ASSESSORATO PARI OPPORTUNITÀ PROVINCIA REGIONALE DI CATANIA VIA PREFETTURA; 14 - 95124 CATANIA (ITALY) TEL.: 0039 095 506422 FAX: 0039 095 433605