Women return to work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Women return to work

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The main goal of the project was to prepare women of all ages (local, migrant, refugee and disabled) to return to employment or entrepreneurship after a period of economic inactivity by developing their key skills and competencies to improve labour mobility especially in rural areas where finding employment can more difficult by providing them with explore opportunities to create employment. Each partner had a specific area of expertise to support women in their region return to work: Sweden Mentoring; UK Entrepreneurship & Networks; Poland Working after Parenthood and Disability; Turkey Personal and Professional Development and Refugee women. This project worked to improve levels of employment by supporting underrepresented groups; women and more specifically migrants and refugees who represent an important pool of employment potential including entrepreneurship. The project objectives were to: -Share best practice expertise to exchange ideas, to develop, adapt and transfer new methods and tools between partner regions to support women develop skills and competencies to return to work -Disseminate this best practice to key stakeholders and educators involved in supporting women return to work to develop educators competences and to improve the delivery and support available to women -Empower women through practical and theoretical methods to build confidence, develop skills and competencies and identify career paths to return to work -Create a flexible movement of the labour market regionally, in the EU and Internationally -Promote peer learning to develop capacity -Create a sustainable network between project partners to share best practice to extend beyond the partner regions for wider EU and International benefit. Each partner hosted a Transnational Meeting in their region which included partners and key stakeholders. Each Meeting included a Project Meeting as well as a Best Practice Meeting with Presentations, Workshops and Study visits related to each partner’s specific area of expertise. Each meeting lasted 3 days apart from in Turkey which was 4 days to include the final conference to share best practice. After each meeting a report of the best practice was shared through newsletters, the project Facebook Page, webpages on partners websites, and through the social media of each partner.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 49695 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stiftelsen Minerva & Country: SE

Project Partners

• KOMEK
• The Rural Centre
• FUNDACJA INSTYTUT ROZWOJU CZLOWIEKA