Following the Europe 2020 strategy and with the strategy ET2020, the project " Proposals and Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs " intends to create innovative, productive and effective synergies through a formative experience both personally and professionally. It is aimed at a particular target group, women with children, who are seeking their own professional fulfillment and they are confronting with a double difficulty: - Find a job, - Reconciling work and family. In fact, due to the current economic and financial crisis, for women who are also mothers the difficulty of finding a job is added to the commitment of reconciling domestic familiar with work. Many researches carried out in different European countries show a problematic situation for women: -High Rate of unemployment, worsened by the fact that many women who don’t work are not even registered as unemployed, -Many women leave the job in order to make grow their children, unable to bear the excessive costs of childcare and babysitting, -Women who intend to start a business are disadvantaged if compared to men in obtaining necessary funding, - Businesses created by women are less competitive and less innovative than the male ones. The project aims to provide valuable assistance to women-mothers, addressing the double problem of unemployment and the need to balance work with family, through a targeted training that gives them the skills necessary to promote female entrepreneurship. The objectives will be : -Making a viable strategy to increase skills for the target group "women-mothers" who wants to combine work and family life by finding appropriate solutions as Home Based Business. -to Promote linguistic diversity and intercultural awareness of the EU. Nowadays, investing on women, on their training and specialization, in this critical context as the current one that involves the whole national and international economy, appears to be a proper solution to support employment, local and national economy and, specifically, to support families who may rely on an additional income, a lower risk of poverty, more time for educating and raise children. By using an informal methodology, centered on the direct involvement of the participants, we aim to achieve the following results: -provide women-mothers with a human, professional and linguistic growth, that will lead them to become serious professionals and managers, and allow them to acquire and to develop: 1) social, civic and intercultural skills 2) linguistic skills, 3) professional skills. From this experience the participants will come, inevitably, strengthened in their professional life which then will implement the acquired skills in the workplace and that will transmit to all those with whom they will be in contact every day, to take off an area in need of suitable and effective strategies in order to exit from the current crisis. All partners will implement an efficient strategy that includes: 1) Preparatory activities. These activities will be related to the project management, to its diffusion, to a research of success experiences and good practices on entrepreneurial activities that can be developed at home; 2) Training activities. -Training course (in classroom) in basic business skills and then it will be tested in every country on a small group (15-25 people) of women with children; -E-learning course of Open Massive Online (MOOC) with theoretical and practical instruction on the skills necessaries for new enterprises, challenges and opportunities, including technologies for creative problem solving. 3) Follow-up-Impact activities. It is expected that the project will have a real and concrete impact for beneficiaries: -acquisition of knowledge and new skills for employability. - for participating organizations, the realization of a European network aimed at capacity building and necessary skills to promote their transnational cooperation. 4) Dissemination of results To disseminate the products and results of the project across Europe we will use a database of materials and e-books with open licenses and also will be realized a series of multipliers events in the country of each partner, in order to present the intellectual products created in the project. 5) Evaluation.
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.