Move it forward + Erasmus Project

Project Title

Move it forward +

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

MOVE IT FORWARD + is a project aiming to innovate and to support organisations in the field of entrepreneurship support and education, with a focus on women participants and digital entrepreneurship.

Indeed, the EU commission reports states that women’s intellectual and entrepreneurial potential, contribution and creativity is still largely an under-exploited source of economic growth. Women still make only a third of business owners in the EU,(34.4% of the EU self-employed and 30% of start-up entrepreneurs – ‘Statistical data on Women entrepreneurs in Europe’) and, tend to run smaller businesses than men. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring (2017) report also shows that the share of young female entrepreneurs is almost two times smaller than the share of men. (5.9% females, 12.5% men). Women are better educated than men in Europe , therefore they are part of the « missing entrepreneurs » in Europe as explained in OCDE reports and policy recommendations. More women entrepreneurs, beyond gender equality, means: jobs creation, robust (and sustainable) economics growth, social progress, impact for communities and economic independence for women.

The goal of the project is to develop methodologies and offer new range of activities in the field of collaboration, mentoring and developing relationships with the private sector and, with a focus on women looking to launch (digital) entrepreneurship projects. From the starting point of an existing concept, the Erasmus+ project wants to enhance practices, to enrich from collaboration and partner experiences, and finally to multiply and sustain impact.

Move it forward + project partnership is made of six entrepreneurial organisations from six EU countries but the clear goal is to make all results available to a broad number of organisations to benefit from Move it Forward + in other countries, in EU and beyond.

The project deliverable includes:
– Creation of a Move It Forward platform and network for organisation wanted to act in the field of women entrepreneurship support:
– Duplication of collaborative design, duplicate a concept of hackathon, entrepreneurship support and mentoring methodologies
– Toolkit to develop sustainability via mentor-ship, involvement of the private sector especially Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
– Piloting and evaluating at national level for more than 200 participants.

The project implementation imply active involvement of a large number of participant in the projects and include as six dissemination events and one training activities for adult education staff.

The project is designed to have a direct impact on:
– adult education organisations
– trainers, mentors, facilitators.
– women learners and (future) entrepreneurs
– broader communities, stakeholders and entrepreneurship ecosystem as well as organisations outside the partnership countries.
Move It Forward+ will also offer a website where all the produced material will be made available, as well as social media activities on the theme on (digital) women entrepreneurship.

The project clearly also aim to create a sustainability and its results, especially the tool kits and the guidelines, as well as the knowledge gained by organisations and participants, to be used and implemented further after the end of the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 115920 Eur

Project Coordinator

WOMEN IN DIGITAL INITIATIVES LUXEMBOURG ASBL & Country: LU

Project Partners

• DIGITAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA SIAURES MIESTELIO TECHNOLOGIJU PARKAS
• Led By HER
• FUNDATIA PROFESSIONAL
• CENTAR TEHNICKE KULTURE RIJEKA