Equal Start Erasmus Project

Project Title

Equal Start

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 : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

The project “Equal Start” involved five partner organisations from Denmark, India, Nepal and Cambodia.The project aimed at building the capacity of the partner organizations to empower marginalised young women through entrepreneurship and raise their awareness upon their role in sustainable development and economic growth.The project addressed the need of advancing non-formal education in the partner countries by developing a non-formal methodology that empowers marginalized young women through entrepreneurship and raises awareness on their equal role and responsibility in the society development.The partners set the following objectives to achieve the aim:1. To develop a Guide for educators in entrepreneurship education that is targeted to reach marginalized young women2. To give 20 youth workers from the partner organizations tools for empowering marginalized young women through entrepreneurship and support their business creation.3. To promote entrepreneurship and a sense of responsibility among at 50 marginalized young women in the local communities of the partner organizations.4. To strengthen the cooperation between organizations of Europe and South Asia, and their capacity to promote women empowerment through entrepreneurship.The project entailed a set of seven activities, both capacity building and mobility of youth workers as follows:1. Kick off meeting in India2. Research phases in all the partners countries to collect materials for a Manual on Entrepreneurial Education. 3. Seminar to a Manual for Educators in Entrepreneurial Education for marginalized young women, Nepal. 4. Finalising the Guide InterCollege Denmark and external experts. 5. Training course for training 20 youth workers on providing Entrepreneurship education for marginalized young women6. Start-up week in all the partners’ countries, where marginalized young women are trained to start a business7. Evaluation Meeting, CambodiaThe intellectual output of the project is a Manual for youth workers in Entrepreneurship Education for marginalized young women. The Guide is innovative as cover gaps identified by the partners in the current entrepreneurship education approaches and strives to create synergy between the current Agenda 2030 and non-formal education with young people. The Guide was translated to Khmer, Hindi and Nepalese.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98616,97 Eur

Project Coordinator

FORA HVIDOVRE & Country: DK

Project Partners

• RURAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN INTERESTS
• JARA FOUNDATION NEPAL
• INTER COLLEGE APS
• PEACE INSTITUTE OF CAMBODIA