Smart Women Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project aimed to design and deliver a training programme specialising in Entrepreneurship and eCommerce. The course aimed at increasing the knowledge and competences of female individuals in the area of electronic commerce and business. The aim of the course is to improve the employment prospects or business opportunities of the participants.

The course targets female individuals who would like to:
– Increase their knowledge on the importance of e-commerce in today’s competitive environment;
– have an opportunity to access a range of resources and tools specially made for women entrepreneurs who would like to start a business or have recently started a business;
– Explore adopting e-commerce services as part of their product / service offering,
– Use e-commerce to bring a new service/product closer to the market.

In the framework of the Smart Women project, seven partners from European countries have created an innovative European Training Model, focused on women, aiming for encouraging entrepreneurship and putting business ideas into practice. The Smart Women Model combines online learning using online learning platforms and face to face training based on project collaboration, peer-learning, guidance, coaching and counselling. Also for each topic a quiz was developed to assess the participants at the end of each module.The following topics were included;
1. Planning your Business
2. Digital Marketing
3. Creating Digital Content
4. ICT and Online Security
5. E-Commerce

A thorough awareness and marketing campaign will was implemented to promote this training course vis-à-vis its importance for the growth of the European economy. This also included the branding of the project, the promotion of the course amongst potential participants, and the organization of conferences in identified partnering countries. To support the sustainability of the project, this component will also include the carrying out of ex-post surveys to establish the effectiveness of the training and be used to fine-tune the delivery of the programme.

Development of an e-learning platform – in parallel with the delivery of the training programme, this project embarked on transforming the content of the course into a virtual learning environment (moodle). The e-learning platform will support the sustainability of the project. Having an online / blended course will reduce operational costs following the closure of the project and will also provide a more accessible learning environment for participants with different needs. Moreover, the e-learning platform will allow the course programme to be delivered following closure of the project.

The activities were accompanied by 6 transnational project meetings where the expertise and ideas were exchanged, the observation of work
plan and time schedule monitored as well as the next tasks and responsibilities agreed.

The project consortium consisted of 7 partners, each of the partners brings to the project team a high-quality profile, multi-sectoral knowledge from similar previous initiatives and experienced working teams; all of which can be exploited for the successful project implementation. The Applicant, the Malta Communications Authority (MCA), has the remit to bridge the digital divide by stimulating and supporting citizens and business to embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a key enabler to continued social and economic growth. All Digital is a European non-for-profit organisation (NGO) and a member based association with a central office in Brussels, Belgium. LIKTA is a member of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Latvia, member of The Confederation of Employers of Latvia, as well as member of Pan- European associations. LIKTA holds the status of Educational institution and has a network of 31 E-competence centres around Latvia. Langas į ateitį provides basic ICT training courses for all citizens for free. More than 120.000 people graduated from distance/classroom training courses since 2003. Dedalo Foundation for the Development of the Information Society is a non-profit Foundation located in Tudela, the second most populated city of Navarra region in Spain. The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) is an independent, professional, scientific, nongovernmental and non–for-profit organization seeking to improve and promote high standards amongst informatics professionals in Cyprus. Fundația EOS – Educating for an Open Society (EOS Romania – www.eos.ro) is a private, non-profit organization. Its main goal is to bridge the digital divide in Romania by helping people realise their full potential through the use of technology.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 203727 Eur

Project Coordinator

Malta Communications Authority & Country: MT

Project Partners

• Fundatia EOS – Educating for an Open Society Romania
• ALL DIGITAL AISBL
• ASOCIACIJA “LANGAS I ATEITI”
• FUNDACION DEDALO PARA LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACION
• LATVIJAS INFORMACIJAS UN KOMUNIKACIJAS TEHNOLOGIJAS ASOCIACIJA
• CYPRUS COMPUTER SOCIETY