Network for Rural Active Women project Erasmus Project

Project Title

Network for Rural Active Women project

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; Inclusion – equity; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The NetRaw project, Network for Rural Active Women, aims to create, develop and provide access to training, capitalisation and support resources for women living in Mediterranean rural areas (Spain, Greece, France).
Indeed, the profound changes in these areas have transformed gender relations and modified urban/rural relations. The NetRAW project and its 4 partners, Cermosem: Campus rural de l’Université Grenoble Alpes (Ardèche, France), the association Grains d’Ici (Ardèche, France), Resilience Earth (Olot, Spain), the Ergani centre (Thessaloniki, Greece) have therefore questioned during 3 years the place of women in these territories and their visibility.
More precisely, the core concern of this network was to change the way rural women are considered by collectively working on key objectives : to fight against stereotypes, to propose answers to their needs for skills acquisition, to empower them, to promote their activities, to create shared learning on the media. The collective working approach has adopted the principle of the shared and collaborative construction of all research, training and mediation productions.
Their desire to give women access to lifelong learning resulted in the setting up of two training sessions offered to 35 women from the partners’ rural territories. Their questioning resulted in the production of resources (non-digital and digital) for women and those involved in support and territorial development, all in 4 languages. In particular, they produced 3 magazines, the PLIs, featuring portraits of women; a web documentary to address, in an interactive way, gender stereotypes and rurality; a photo exhibition to compare portraits of local rural women entrepreneurs; a research based on a corpus of written press articles which confirmed the hypothesis of the invisibility of women’s place in the media; the creation of a digital educational resource, i.e., the MOOC “Women and rural territories in Europe”, available on the “fun-mooc” platform, which responds to the need for access to academic and professional knowledge on the subject. Finally, their latest production is the creation of a resource and networking platform for European rural women: the “rural women’s living lab”. These numerous resources created, accessible free of charge, will enable women in rural Europe to train, exchange, share and undertake collectively. Finally, they contribute to changing the way women living in rural territories are considered.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 283830 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Grains d’ici
• Resilience Earth SCCL
• CENTRE FOR SUPPORT AND ADVANCEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN IN THESSALONIKI-ERGANI