CESI's 'Building Gender Awareness' program, started in 1999, primarily focuses on young people and in its approach successfully integrates research, education, publishing, and public policy advocacy. One of the program's current projects (2003-2004) is 'GenderNet', the European Commission funded educational, capacity-building and media project with the overall objective to integrate the values of gender equality, tolerance, and respect for diversities in schoolwork. The project's main activity is development, implementation and evaluation of the 'Gender Awareness' pilot program, an educational intervention for secondary school students, comprising 10 one-class period lessons focusing on gender equality issues. The program's contents include: sex and gender; gender roles and identities; gender, society and culture (with a special emphasis on media influence); and gender (in)equality. In addressing topics such as gender stereotypes and prejudices, sexism, and gender-based violence, this training curriculum combines various interactive teaching methods, and employs adolescent perspective and experiences. A teaching manual is also provided (Hodžic, Bijelic & Cesar, 2000). Besides raising students' gender awareness, the program's objectives are also directed to the development and strengthening of young people's communication and negotiation skills (active listening, assertiveness). The cross-curricular integration of the program's themes is indicated for following school subjects: Croatian language and literature, history, ethics, sociology and psychology. The implementation procedure entails an advanced capacity-building and program-development seminar for 20 teachers who have already participated in CESI's previous trainings in gender awareness and interactive teaching methodology (2001-2002), and who will be putting this educational program to practice with 600 young people in 10 secondary schools in Croatia. A systematic evaluation and monitoring will be conducted in a co-operation with the Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD) using a questionnaire survey ('pre-test, post-test, control group design') to research the impact of the educational program on students' knowledge, attitudes and behavior in relation to gender equality (identities, roles, relations), while the quality of the implementation procedure will be assessed through interviews with principle teachers and students, and a follow-up evaluation seminar for teachers. The planned outcomes of this comprehensive project include a booklet providing a blueprint and recommendations for implementation procedure, educational videotape, as well as the second edition of the educational manual.