Entrepreneurial education for creAtive Self-Employment of WomEn Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurial education for creAtive Self-Employment of WomEn

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

COVID19 emergency produces severe consequences on a socioeconomical level: economic crisis and social distancing measures hit the cultural ad creative sector and there is the talk of Shecession for the profound consequences of the crisis on women that exacerbate existing inequalities.
The issue is sharper if we consider that access to the labour market is one of the main steps in the integration process of migrants, and migrant women, who represent more than 1/3 of them, find it particularly difficult.
The Migration Policy Group believes that self-employment ands entrepreneurship represent a promising option for migrant women to access the labour market, if adequately supported. It is therefore necessary to provide essential transversal skills: entrepreneurial, to stimulate female entrepreneurship and reduce risks, and digital, to be able to innovate services in view of the changes dictated by COVID.
In this context, adult organizations do not offer entrepreneurship education paths suitable to provide entrepreneurial skills and mentality to the target group, nor do they carry out actions that facilitate access to them.

In summary, the needs for low-skilled migrant women and adult educators are:
– increase competitiveness in the labour market, made more precarious by COVID19
– develop interest in learning and knowing about training support actions
– develop basic entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of IT tools (more useful for COVID effect)
– develop capacity to innovate existing tools and initiatives of entrepreneurship education, not adapted to the target audience
– increase the ability to transfer content and involve through distance learning in the COVID era with innovative tools tailored to the target audience.

The partnership EASEWE (Entrepreneurial educAtion for Self-Employment of immigrant WomEn) aims to contribute to the restart in the cultural and creative field by encouraging self-entrepreneurship of migrant women in the sector, increasing their employability with tools that strengthen digital and entrepreneurial skills aimed at self-employment and business creation.

Specific objectives:
– to support the work of adult educators by developing a path of entrepreneurship education designed for the cultural and creative sector and functional to female self-entrepreneurship, supported by IT tools
– encourage low-skilled migrant women’s interest in self-employment and improve their spirit of enterprise
– to promote access for low-skilled migrant women to entrepreneurial and digital literacy paths, with a focus on the economy of culture, and to develop transversal skills
– exchange and disseminate information and best practices in entrepreneurship education and support to entrepreneurship of migrant women, to stimulate public and private initiatives and support innovation in the cultural and creative sector in the postCOVID era.

The project, in 24 months, intends to produce the following Intellectual Outputs:
– Blended Training Course for low skilled migrant women
– Digi&Entre-Toolkit

Other activities planned:
– Research and publication of a compendium on best practices in the cultural and creative sector during the acute phase COVID19
– Blended Training Course Test
– 4 Transnational Project Meetings
– 6 Multiplier Events
– Awareness campaign
– Entrepreneurial Contest

Main expected results:
For participating organizations
– increasing the educational offer with contents focused on the economy of culture
– development of a training course in blended-learning and with the use of gamification
– increased cooperation between organizations active in the field of EdA, cultural sector organisations and institutions
– increasing prestige at European level

For migrant women
– development of digital and entrepreneurial skills aimed at self-employment in the creative and cultural sector
– Raising awareness about opportunities and policies to support female entrepreneurship
– activation of entrepreneurial mentality and motivation to entrepreneurship
– increased social inclusion, intercultural awareness and sense of belonging
– Increased awareness of one’s needs, skills and ability to transform one’s skills into resources for personal development and self-employment

For adult educators
– increasing awareness of the training needs of potential target learners
– knowledge of good practices in the field of Entrepreneurship Education and professional retraining aimed at self-employment in the artistic and cultural sector
– knowledge of useful tools to transfer entrepreneurial and digital skills
– increase of IT skills related to e-learning and blended training management
– Increased knowledge of Erasmus+ and European initiatives on entrepreneurship

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147873 Eur

Project Coordinator

NET IN ACTION & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FUNDACION EMPRESA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA
• GRANTXPERT CONSULTING LIMITED
• Fiatal Iparmuvészek Studiója Egyesulet
• ALFOMBRA ROJA AB
• ZIKLV