Women@Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Women@Work

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 2019

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

W@W project consists in extending and developing the competences of long-term unemployed women without proper education, living in marginalized rural areas in order to assist them in the long-run, to access the labor market and further exploit their hobbies.
The project is grounded on EU 2020 Strategy with specific measures responds to learning needs of women living in rural areas which are considerable uncapped human potential that are sorely needed to boost economic growth and create new jobs required in today’s difficult economic climate.
This will be done via following outcomes:
– Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset Capacity Building Course
– W@W One-Stop Portal
-Success Stories Videos
– Self Test tool of Appropriateness as an Entrepreneur
The project has been designed based on the partners’ experience and understanding the needs of unemployed women living in rural areas who are interested into traditional products development.

The project will bring together 7 partners from 7 different countries wishing to promote entrepreneurship, self employment and the common values of gender equality within the labor market, strengthening women’s economic participation and helping marginalized people to become responsible active members of our society by enriching adult women’s competences.
This project will also include 4 transnational meetings that will contribute to the preparation, implementation and evaluation phase of the project. All the information gathered through this project and the promotion of the project itself will then be uploaded on the W@W Portal.
The total number of people, who will benefit (directy or indirectly) from or will be targeted through the project activities during its duration, is moderately estimated at approximately 2500.
The project’s expected results are the following:
– High quality training material offered to unemployed women in the future;
-Fostering the women’s professional development resulting to their economic participation in society;
– Improved levels of employability skills of unemployed women;
-Strengthen links between the tradition/culture and women entrepreneurship;
– Promote e-commerce for micro-business

The W@W project is expected to have an overall significant impact on low qualified/unemployed women:
• Acquisition of new knowledge and skills (effective advertising, establishment of quality controls in production/manufacture, financial management, business structuring, adoption of modern business practices);
– Become more integrated into the labour market;
-Enable a full understanding about career opportunities;
-Being able to seek assistance from professionals through the Portal
-Promotion of their products through the Portal (e-commerce)

The Expected local/regional impact of the project is the following:
– Improvement of learning resources and guidance for low-skilled/unemployed women;
– Created informal networks among women involved in traditional handicrafts and food production;
– Improved position in the labor market of low-skilled women;
– Empower links between local handicrafts industry and labor market;
– Development of professional competences at a local level;

The Expected national impact of the project is the following:
– Increased skills and knowledge of low-qualified women in partner countries to successfully engage in the country’s economy;
– Preservation of local cultural identity through the production of traditional products
– Improvement of governmental policies regarding women’s entrepreneurship
– Improved access towards sustainable employment through awareness of skills and qualifications gained through their participation in the developed learning model programme.
– Enhanced social and labour integration of women with disadvantaged background;
– Reduction of gender inequality within one nation;

At the European level the project is expected to have the following impact:
– Retraining and improvement of competences of adults and particularly women in specific areas of the social economy.
– Establishment of a professional knowledge-base and an effective training methodology in women’s entrepreneurship management for interested individuals that result to improvement of their transferable skills and competences.
– Promotion of traditional products and designation as a specific category of products within the European Economic Area.
– Improvement of EU policies regarding economic and social integration of women;
In sum, our project results cannot be attained if we carry the project in a single European country, and participation of different countries is essential. The empowerment of women is a European concern and requires the development a common intervention program at European level complementing the efforts of the Commission.
The project’s innovation and added value lies in the very fact that it does not merely seek to train and empower women living in marginalised areas but also raise awareness on women’s employability.

Project Website

https://womenatwork-project.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 232391 Eur

Project Coordinator

Italienische Handelskammer München-Stuttgart Camera di Commercio Italo-Tedesca & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ENOROS CONSULTING LIMITED
• ProQvi internationell förening för kvinnor och ungdomar
• I DIRITTI CIVILI NEL 2000 – SALVABEBE’/ SALVAMAMME
• GIP FORMATION ET INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE DE L’ ACADEMIE DE NICE
• DRAMBLYS
• RightNow ehf