Entrepreneurship Mentoring for Young Graduate Women Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurship Mentoring for Young Graduate 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 : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

e-Mentor is a “challenge” project that brings together 9 partners with various backgrounds to achieve their goals. 4 different countries host four different fields of activity, however, these differences were utilized to improve the institutional dimension and sectoral results of e-Mentor project. Based on the fact that women’s creativity and entrepreneurship potential is a source of economic growth and employment and needs to be further developed, this project targets young women who are about to graduate and are dedicated to becoming entrepreneurs or young women to take over family business. The project aims to create an appropriate entrepreneurship guidance model for these young women, taking into account two important dimensions:

– One is an obvious need to guide such young entrepreneurs,
– Second, the young woman needs a mentor if she is going to lose her planned opportunity due to health problems in the family business or the unexpected death of the older generation who is expected to pass all the available history.

So, our project is aiming to develop a complete and borderless professional infrastructure for potential young entrepreneur female for them freely walk in this line and receive a best possible level support in their entrepreneurship efforts.

For this aims, the project has carried out the following outputs activities:

• Firstly a questionnaire was conducted hosted by a university from each participating country among female students In addition, a separate questionnaire was conducted for mentors to assess the current status of potential mentors. Surveys aimed to understand the mentee and mentors’ behaviors and attitudes on three main topics such as mentoring, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. In the final stage, the most important needs of the mentee and the current potential of the mentor determined. These points then be emphasized more strongly in the training modules (IO1-02)

• Following, a comprehensive mentor curriculum was developed by considering surveys. In addition, mentee trainings have been developed as a guide for the mentee to understand the mentoring relationship.The training program is divided into 5 sections and there are a total of 13 modules.At the end of each module, there are short test questions to evaluate mentors and mentees’ understanding (IO1-02).

• Created e – Mentor Platform (IO3) mobile friendly and based on “extendable” design criteria, so that future expansions will be possible when the project idea grows to neighbour fields other than financial literacy in mentoring of young entrepreneur women candidates, even to wider scope.

The following items are summarized in the e-Mentor portal:(http://www.ent-mentor.eu/).

User’s Manuel (to give a brief and easy information for users as well as practical navigation tips and methods about platform and e-course modules)
About e-Mentor
Why e-Mentor born?
Aims & Objectives of e-Mentor
e-Mentor e-Training Program
e-Training Course Program (The content of the syllabus is accompanied by an “Avatar” Also, modules can be seen both vertically and horizontally)
Q&A (Avatar’ answers questions -FAQ)
Cognitive Pairing (Being O4 and to be available online within the portal)
Give Us a Feedback! (Being O5 and to be available online within the portal)
Chat Room
Forum
Search site

• The project used the “cognitive matching” tool between mentors and mentees. This goal was achieved through surveys using Big-Five personalities (OCEAN), whose characters matched the profiles of mentors and mentees For this purpose, online electronic questionnaire prepared for potential mentors and mentees. The answers to these questions were evaluated (IO4).

– Feedback fairly straight forward but still very essential tool for the both implementation and future use of the project idea and resulting products. Moreover, this tool is vital for improvement of worked out system and for being able to find out tiny drawbacks on which any other carefully reading eyes may even overlook at. In this respect, at the testing phase feedback is utmost importance and be collected online and offline for performing improvements to the project outputs and to overall system created.

The testing phase was provided feedback tools; these are as follows: (IO5)

• The results of evaluating the participants in multiplier activities
• Users / participants evaluated online surveys that allows the system to measure participants’ satisfaction levels, including the anonymous rating system.
• Evaluation results reflecting the satisfaction of project partners

Also the project has carried out the following activities:

Mangement & Quality Report
Dissemination Report
7 multiplier events and reached about 300 people
Each partner presented the dissemination activity reports.
One success story for each country
8 international project meetings were held, as well as teleconferences via Skype.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 240782,28 Eur

Project Coordinator

GAZI UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Wyzsza Szkola Ekonomii i Informatyki w Krakowie
• Zdruzenie aktivnych a talentovanych zien realizujucich fungujucu karieru – ZARIF
• FUNDACJA “MALOPOLSKA IZBA SAMORZADOWA”
• Leean Trade Oy
• TUM AVRUPA KADINLARI KULTUREL ISBIRLIGI VE DAYANISMA DERNEGI
• POINT PROJE INSAAT TAAHHUT MUHENDISLIK VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• Nadácia Mojmír