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Women are In: Skills and Competences for Work and Entrepreneurship

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-UK01-KA204-078986
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 216,776 EUR

Women are In: Skills and Competences for Work and Entrepreneurship

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"Women are In: Skills and Competences for Work and Entrepreneurship (WOMIN):The current socio-economic context proves the necessity of entrepreneurship development, as being an efficient way of supporting the active measures of the labour market to create new jobs and to stimulate the economy. The European strategies in the field of employment emphasise entrepreneurship because it plays an essential part in employment policy and fighting unemployment.The personal and social costs of unemployment include severe financial hardship and poverty, debt, homelessness and housing stress, family tensions and breakdown, boredom, alienation, shame and stigma, increased social isolation, crime, erosion of confidence and self-esteem, the atrophying of work skills and ill-health. EU Commission ""Women's situation in the labour market"": Women work more part-time are paid less and often still carry out the bulk of private domestic and care responsibilities. Across the EU there is a serious gender inequality where women are under-employed and tend to have low self-confidence, low skills and competences. Partner countries all have the same issue which needs to be tackled - empowering women adults with entrepreneurial skills and competences that move them closer to the labour market and able to have the option of working from home.6 partners:UK: WSX Enterprise & Make A Dream Publishing Ltd; Netherlands: PROWORK; Lithuania: ZISPB - will deliver training to own staff, trainers and associate partners who will deliver workshops and coaching to disadvantaged women furthest from the labour market.Turkey: BOSEV: upskill trainers to improve entrepreneurial skills and competences for migrant women and refugees.Romania: BUCOVINA: will target 5 Roma communities to improve their entrepreneurial skills and competences.Using non-formal education methods we will develop a digital toolkit and entrepreneurial training programme. We will deliver both to 24 educators and trainers from UK, Romania, Turkey, Lithuania and Netherlands during a 5-day short term staff training (C1) event held in Suceava, Romania in Month 12. These trainees will be evaluated using KOLB’s Experiential Learning Cycle. They will then go on to support 240 women across the partnership (10 per trainee) in Months 13 - 19. Impact on the social and mental well-being of women (distance traveled) will be evaluated using the WEMWBS tool with qualitative feedback from trainers, women and stakeholders. A further 60+ trainers will participate in 6 webinars. The training programme and digital toolkit will provide educators/trainers with tools to strengthen their entrepreneurial and digital skills and competences and those of their beneficiaries.We will hold 6 transnational partnership meetings with 2 staff attending from each partner. At the first meeting, we will agree on initial assessment protocols and offline workshop training programme that are user-friendly (for trainers and women learners). These will be evaluated via local women focus group and local stakeholder meetings in Months 3-5. This will be fed back to the partners in Month 6 at the 2nd partnership meeting. At 2nd meeting PROWORK will present a draft digital toolkit to partners; this will be presented to and evaluated by stakeholders and women focus groups Months 7-9. At the 3rd meeting in Month 10 we will have agreed content for a pilot training programme for delivery to 24 educators/trainers at the C1 training event in Suceava Month 12. Trainers will deliver the learning to 240 women beneficiaries between Months 13-19. We will create 6 webinars to support the training programme as part of the digital toolkit. The digital training represents a path for trainers and learners to acquire the digital skills and competences needed for entrepreneurship. We do so by exploiting the resources, videos, games and other content that we present at the 1st partnership meeting before co-creation of the digital toolkit and webinars.Following a review in Month 22 (final meeting) each partner will host a local multiplier conference with a minimum of 30 attendees per event in Months 23/24. All activities will be robustly evaluated, reviewed and re-evaluated during project implementation.C1 workshop training participants will receive recognition in the form of Europass Mobility Certificates, to enhance their CVs and future employability in the field of adult education (evidence of CPD). Through the new methods, techniques and approaches learned, educators, trainers, support staff, volunteers and stakeholders will benefit by being introduced to new skills, new cultures and new outlooks on life as a whole.Projected targets for women:- 60%+ to show improved socio-economic and mental well being- 30%+ to progress on to further training/employment/self-employmentProject results will be available for 5 years after the project completion. They will add to the evidence base of what works, why and for whom."

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