To work for an increased equality is an important goal on the national level for the preschool. To work with gender issues and norm-criticism is also an important goal on the local level in the city of Gothenburg. In order to reach the goals we have identified the need to increase our knowledge and raise our awareness on how different aspects of work within the preschool can affect the possibilities of boys and girls, especially aspects on design of environments and materials. Therefore we want to find new approaches in our own work that leads to an increased awareness of how the environment forms conditions for boys and girls. Our strategy for this includes job shadowing at preschools in Reggio Emilia in the northern part of Italy. In that region preschools have been working with other types of environments and materials for a long time, than preschools in Sweden traditionally are. Among other things they have a lesser extent of so called gender-encoded material. We would like to particularly study the eduators and the educational leaders in their work with the physical environment and how it creates opportunities for boys and girls to learn and develop. At the same time we want to look at the educational leaders role in the environment. How are boys and girls invited, encouraged or endorsed; and how are their initiatives taken care of? To reach as much impact and result as possible we want to send key competences, in this matter heads for our preschools and our educator for gender issues, as these functions have the possibility to influence the organisation’s work with norm-criticism in regard to environments and materials. The overall goal is that the project will lead to increased competence and knowledge regarding the meaning of the environment in the work with equality and norm-criticism. In the long run we see that this will enable more equal opportunities for boys and girls at an early stage in life.