Gender Equality and Entreprenership for All Erasmus Project

Project Title

Gender Equality and Entreprenership for All

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Gender equality / equal opportunities; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The European Commission adopted a Women’s Charter on 5 March 2010 and committed to strengthening gender equality in all its policies. To translate the Women’s Charter’s objectives into reality, the EC adopted an action plan for promoting equality between men and women –the Gender Equality Strategy.“The actions in the Strategy will help us address some of the remaining gender gaps.The gender gap in the employment rate was 12 percentage points in 2009. We will work to improve women’s participation in the labour market by facilitating the work-life balance, promoting female entrepreneurship,” declared Viviane Reding, former Vice-President of the European Commission Justice, in “Strategy for equality between women and men” 2010-2015.

This project raised awareness of equal opportunities especially in VET education and promoted entrepreneurship education as a solution to gender gap in the employment rate. To reach the Europe 2020 objective of a 75% employment rate,particular attention needed to be given to the proportion of female entrepreneurs, at 33% (30% in start-ups),which was some way short of optimum and most women still do not consider entrepreneurship as a relevant career option. Young women should also benefit from the growing emphasis on entrepreneurship as one of the basic skills that schools should teach all pupils, girls or boys.
The development of entrepreneurial mindsets is becoming embedded in policy across Europe.It is this new approach that the project experimented in the partners’ organizations, institutions and schools.

The GEEA aimed at:
• forming a Strategic Partnership of organizations which raised awareness on equal opportunities/ gender equality preparing our target group for the labor market
• devising tools to examine gender issues and offer guidance
• producing a series of core publications
• establishing means and methods for participants to share their experiences, products and expertise
• creating a new approach to promoting entrepreneurship education as a solution to gender gap in the employment rate
• enhancing value to existing best practice by widespread dissemination
• connecting to national and European initiatives

The target group included:
1.key stakeholders, policy formulators and decision makers;NGOs,Women Associations,Trade Unions,companies, SMEs,Social enterprises.
2.Vet teachers, Primary/secondary teachers,teacher trainers,student teachers, educators, inspectors.

The real beneficiaries were our VET students and in the long run those who joined (and are still joining) this type of education later as they are now in lower secondary or primary school.
To achieve this, GEEA:
1. undertook research and published the “state of the art”
2. produced a Code of Practice for decision makers,policy makers, teachers, headteachers, managers of adult education organizations and leaders of NGOs on equal opportunities and gender equality issues.
3. trained young female entrepreneurs
4. needed analysis for training teachers,student teachers and teacher trainers
5. examined pedagogical approaches
6. produced a Training Programme and Guidance resources for teachers and educators and a Student Kit
7. created a Web site with services offering access to materials,
8.created an online community, training opportunities and GEEA products, research reports, resources, B-learning TP etc;
8. disseminated GEEA and widen the community via the extended networks of partners.

The main results of the GEEA project are:
O1.State of the Art General Report
O2.The Code of Practice was already marketed in the partners countries of the project plus EU-wide.( also in English)
O3.INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON STUDY ON THE NEEDS OF DEVELOPING GENDER EQUALITY SKILLS IN RELATION TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES
O4.EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES/GENDER EQUALITY RELATED TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS THROUGH A PERSONALIZATION APPROACH TRAINING PROGRAMME
O5.GUIDE BOOK FOR TEACHERS APPLYING THE GEEA B- LEARNING TRAINING PROGRAMME
O6.STUDENT KIT FOR GEEA
O7.ADAPTATION OF TRAINING METHODS TO A B-LEARNING SYSTEM: DISTANCE (WEB ENVIRONMENT) AND WORKSHOP ON USABILITY OF THE PLATFORM AND TRAIN THE TRAINER
O8 DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SPECIFIC CONTENTS AND PROGRAMME TAILORING TO EACH COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS AND NEW TARGET AUDIENCE AND INTENSIVE TRAINING SESSIONS – PILOTING1AND 2

The legacy of GEEA project lies in its contribution to and clarifying issues being faced in Europe. It is concerned with the information-rich society, hungry for quick answers but too rarely considering the consequences and outcomes related to it. GEEA outcomes help a range of stakeholders establish their objectives to meet the needs of gender equality-aware citizens. Therefore important competence areas are addressed.It is envisaged that the outcomes are sustainable as increasing numbers of schools, training providers and other training organizations look to adopt and adapt personalized learning method used in the TP.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 158892,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul National Unirea & Country: RO

Project Partners

• APPIS- Associação Paredes pela Inclusão Social
• INSTITOUTO ANAPTIXIS EPICHEIRIMATIKOTITAS ASTIKI ETAIREIA
• FUNDATIA PROFESSIONAL
• Xano Channel asociación para el desarrollo comunitario
• First Private School Leonardo da Vinci Ltd
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE