NOW New Opportunities for Women Erasmus Project

Project Title

NOW New Opportunities for 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

There is still a long way to go before women achieve true parity. The gap varies from country to country, but shortfalls are still very apparent. A substantial number of women are under represented across Europe, and this is significantly higher among women with migrant background.

In 2017, the share of females among all international migrants reached 52 per cent in Europe – women migrating not just as partners and dependents, but also as independent agents in search of work and opportunities. Yet, once they arrive, they are often marginalised and face well known transversal gender related challenges:
-Those women in leading positions are significantly lower paid than men in those roles
-Male dominant environments can be a challenge for some of women’s progress
-Women can also face challenge and lack of support from other women
-Women and girls are often discouraged from what are considered non-female roles and positions
-Rate of pay often lower for women, as proven in recent gender pay gap articles in the news
-Work-life balance as women often take on the home maker, caregiver roles in addition to work
-Fewer career opportunities

NOW breaks boundaries for boosting a key strategic partnership. The project will create a transnational network – UK, Cyprus, Ireland, Greece, France, Spain, Iceland and Portugal – of valuable support through peer learning, share experiences and discuss emerging good practices. This will create a unique and dynamic community of practice to address how key challenges are experienced and will tackle advancement with a multifaceted and flexible approach, targeting to empower women with migrant background, enhance their leadership aspirations and competences and provide venues for networking and integration.

NOW has a strategic focus on migrant women’s advancement into leadership roles and take ownership. Main objectives are to:
– Produce a collection of women leaders’ role models to share biographies, give real-world examples and inspire migrant women
– Develop a multilingual MOOC and a CoP offering flexible learning and resources on leadership and an exchange path with other migrant women, leader women and mentors
– Develop a bespoke mentoring cycle programme to equip future mentors in providing continuous mentoring support to migrant women in career development planning as well as in navigating the complex challenges they face every day, in the workplace
– Implement pilot trials and mentoring cycles
– Engage associated partners, stakeholders and decision- and policy-makers, through dissemination and scaling actions to mainstream and deploy NOW.

NOW will generate a circular benefit effect and impact by involving directly over 450 participants, including the final beneficiaries (migrant women), end-users (mentors) and key-stakeholders in project activities (role models, Local Advisors Groups and multiplier events).

Besides specific envisaged impacts for each one of these target groups, a cross impact for all of them, and also at local, regional, national, EU and International levels of the NOW project is to increase the understanding in how to better support the roll out of national and transnational strategic objectives and goals that underpin this agenda already looking at 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and EU Commission objectives related to migrant women integration, education and empowerment.

After the end of the project, partners are committed to continue the NOW’s community of practice and deliver further training and mentoring initiatives not only to migrant women but also to any women to support their advancement into leadership roles and take ownership.

Project Website

http://nowmooc.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 277781 Eur

Project Coordinator

Evolve Global Solutions Ltd & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ITG CONSEIL
• Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• IASIS
• Kvenréttindafélag Íslands
• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD