“Proposals and Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs” Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Proposals and Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs”

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

In line with the Europe 2020 strategy and the ET2020 strategy (Education and Training 2020), the project “Proposals and Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs” aimed to create innovative, productive and effective synergies through a human and professional training experience, aimed at a particular target group, women with children and without, in search of their own professional fulfilment who found themselves faced with a double difficulty:
to find a job
reconcile work and family.
The project aimed to offer a valid help to women with children and without, through a targeted training path that gave them the skills necessary to promote entrepreneurship.
The objective pursued was, therefore, to
Realize a valid strategy to increase the skills for the target group “women mothers” who wanted to reconcile work and family life finding suitable solutions such as a Home Based Business.
Promoting linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness of the EU.
Using an informal methodology, focused on the direct involvement of the participants, we have tried to achieve the following results:.
Provide women mothers with human, professional and linguistic growth leading them to become serious and responsible professionals, and enable them to acquire and develop
1. social-civil- and cultural competences,
2. language skills,
3. professional competence.
The project brought together 8 organisations from 8 different European countries, Italy, Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia. The partnership structure covered Europe from North (Lithuania) to South (Cyprus) and from East (Bulgaria) to West (Spain). A priority element in the choice of partners was the considerable experience in the training and employment sector, as can be seen from the many successful projects carried out, as well as skills in IT and language subjects. The collaboration covers non-governmental organisations, social enterprises – with different backgrounds, skills and approaches of entrepreneurship, education, business and gender policies.
All these backgrounds, approaches to resources and heterogeneous skills, have been put together for the design of a concrete model on entrepreneurship, compact but flexible, and with a strong practical component dedicated to a particular target group. This model could be a key pillar in the Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practice system which aims (as underlined in the Bruges Communiqué) at ” Promoting innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship as well as the use of ICTs” and also at ” Improving labour market relationship and employability “. Any national (or even bilateral) project could not provide such a pan-European vision on this issue.
On the other hand, the project has served to spread and disseminate information on the importance of common European knowledge for achieving the Europe 2020 objectives, in order to introduce important new links between the organisations involved in the Cooperation for Innovation and the exchange of good practices in 8 European countries, which will also contribute to more intensive European cooperation.
All partners have implemented a sound strategy which included:
1.1. A preparatory activity;
2.2. A training activity.
3.3. A Follow-up-impact activity.
4.4. Dissemination of results.
5.5. A final evaluation both by the partnership and, above all, by the learners who took part in the project.
The results achieved by the target group were as follows:
– adequate training to enhance professional skills, in particular with regard to the use of new technologies;
– the creation of a pool of specialised and qualified skills in the business sector HBB to facilitate access to the labour market as a lever for development in the countries concerned;
– increasing the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
-increasing the level of digital competences;
– increasing competence in foreign languages; –
– opportunities to set up micro-enterprises in the current period of economic and financial crisis.
No less important were also the results obtained during the course of the project, i. e.
(a) sharing information, experience, results, good practice; and
(b) development of complementary strategies and coordinated and joint actions; and
(c) the acquisition of theoretical and practical skills needed to promote the creation of micro-enterprises; and
d) raising the profile of future female entrepreneurs, creating awareness of their potential but also of their weaknesses.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153297 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIOVANI PER L’EUROPA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Instituto de Turismo de la Región de Murcia
• EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD
• G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED
• INFORMO – UDRUGA ZA POTICANJE ZAPOSLJAVANJA, STRUCNOG USAVRSAVANJA I OBRAZOVANJA
• DOOEL LINGVA 2006
• SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS
• N.G.O. CIVIS PLUS