Innovation, dynamization and entrepreneurship in the training of adult rural women. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Innovation, dynamization and entrepreneurship in the training of adult rural 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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Context

Women who live in the rural environment are key in the sustainable development of our villages and of our society as a whole, and to guarantee such sustainability it is necessary to face the inequalities that women still suffer in the rural environment even more, in Many cases, than urban women. Women play a fundamental role in the sustainable development of the rural environment, as they represent 48.9% of the population in rural areas.
We must try to make rural women visible and promote the conditions to close these gaps through the necessary support measures so that rural women are not forced to leave their environment.
The future of the rural environment involves creating more opportunities and improving the employment status of women, but their educational, cultural, leisure, access to technology, services and infrastructure options must also be supported.

Goals
– Make visible the role of rural women and disseminate it in society
– Overcome the gender gap in employment
– Foster women’s entrepreneurship in rural areas
– To improve the education of adult women, through the development of a service teaching and learning system that combines learning processes and community service
– Facilitate the reconciliation of personal, work and family life

Number and type / Profile of the participants
Untitled adult woman living in rural areas. Unemployed women. Professional adult woman working in rural areas without a specific qualification. Adult women with problems accessing the labor market. Migrant women at risk of social and economic exclusion.

Methodology:
1. Design and operate an online teaching platform for the development of an LMS (Learning Management System). The main pillars are the development of digital educational materials and resources and advice and training in the education sector (in person or virtual). 2. Develop a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with the community service for rural adult women. 3. Raise awareness, information and guidance towards collective recipients, social agents and companies in the sector. 4. Make an evaluation and quality control of the result. 5. Awareness, information and orientation actions towards the target group and the social partners. 6. The target groups will participate in the project through: surveys, personal interviews, specific seminars, multimedia tools and proven actions.

Activities carried out
1. Design of an online teaching platform for the development of an LMS (Learning Management System). 2. Development of a service-learning pedagogy that combines the academic curriculum with the community service for rural adult women. 3. Completion of 5 pilot courses (one per country) with 10 students to evaluate the non-formal business training program in rural areas. 4. Creation of a specific space to incorporate content and results. 5. Information on activities and dissemination of results: educational conferences, information leaflets and posters. 7. Promote entrepreneurship in rural areas through collaboration with entrepreneurs and social agents, technical trainers, non-formal professional training authorities in the sector. 8. Transnational seminars: 4 to coordinate the project.

Impact:
1. Increased awareness and participation of the target group (adult rural women) in entrepreneurial processes. 2. Adult women in rural areas will benefit from learning from business activities through the service and learning program. 3. The project expects a positive impact on the collective group of women that favors their professional preparation and their possibilities of access to employment.

Long term benefits
-Use of the tools developed in the framework of the project to qualify rural adult women.
– Increase the number of rural adult women who are employed or develop a self-employment initiative in agritourism, organic farming, local heritage, socio-health care or food related to quality brands
– Improve the work of women in rural areas

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147641 Eur

Project Coordinator

DIPUTACION PROVINCIAL DE VALLADOLID & Country: ES

Project Partners

• For.es. Formazione e Sviluppo Srl
• CoraNE – Associação de Desenvolvimento dos Concelhos da Raia Nordestina
• EXCMA. DIPUTACIÓN PROVINCIAL DE LEÓN
• Infocenter