The project “Pandora – Discovering European opportunities for Female Entrepreneurship” aims to develop and share best practices in the field of adult education. The organizations and institutions involved in the project work in different areas, but every institution/association focus on adult education and social field. The main idea of the project is to develop an educational path for disadvantaged women and share best practices in the field of economic integration and female entrepreneurship. This project aspire at creating a cooperation among associations in order to ameliorate their impact on adult education and increase the employability and the entrepreneur spirit of women thanks to a sharing educational path and to the use of new tools and methods successfully experimented by the other partners. The partners will be selected based on their experience in the specific field of adult education and the previous positive partnership during different projects. The choice will take into account the specialty of each partner in order to create a complete framework including different aspects of education, work methods and specific tools. During this 2 years long project, beyond three transnational partners meeting, the project will include specific learning mobility for the staff and two joint mobility for the target groups and staff in order to work together and make them compare ideas.The project foresees 4 long staff mobility (two months each) in order to give the chance to four volunteers/social workers/youth workers of each Association/Institution to work with another Organization and experience its tool and methodologies. During the mobility experience the person involved will be a part of the hosting Organization and will receive a training-on-the-job on the specific tool/instrument and a deeper knowledge of the methodology behind it. Once back the volunteers/social workers/youth workers will participate to a relay race moment with the next youth worker in order to pass him/her all the information about the mobility and will organize and coordinate the local activity concerning what he/she experienced during the mobility period.The volunteers/social workers/youth workers who will experience the mobility will organize and coordinate the local teaching activity using tools and methodologies such as non-formal education. The local activities will last two months each and be divided in four different topics: ICT literacy, English language, Business administration and female entrepreneurship skills.There will also be two shorts mobility, which will involve the target group and the staff. The mobility will take place after two local activities in order to give the chance to the disadvantaged women involved to compare their background, context and experience with other participants from different partner countries and to share ideas for the future follow-up projects.The main idea of this process is to build capacities and skills, on one hand to form volunteers/social workers/youth workers that operate in the social field targeting women and on the other one to give to disadvantaged women and migrants the opportunity to learn ICT and English basis and specific notions on business administration and female entrepreneurship.The communication between partners will happen through emails and Skype call to organize and share information about the transnational meetings and mobility. The consortium priority is to share the best practices in the field of adult education and to enhance hard and soft skills of the two main target groups. The two targets will be also the main element for the dissemination activities of the project being an integral part of the project and a key to an integrated best practice view and application. The intellectual output of the project will be a Guideline book with all the methodologies and tools experienced during the project meetings.
The main idea of the "Pandora - Discovering European Opportunities for Female Entrepreneurship" project was to develop an educational path for disadvantaged women and to share good practices in the fields of women's economic integration and entrepreneurship. The project aimed to create a partnership between the associations in order to improve their impact on adult education and increase the skills in the workplace and the entrepreneurial spirit of women, thanks to a training program, the sharing and use of new tools and methods successfully tested by the other partners. The specific objectives therefore followed three main lines: - Create a greater awareness of the skills, abilities and opportunities that can be used to found cooperatives, social enterprises or other economic initiatives run by women. - Exchange good practices with organizations, institutions and social enterprises, in order to identify some aspects related to adult education and female entrepreneurship that represent examples to follow. - Allow volunteers and social workers to acquire new skills and knowledge through long-term mobility that helped them formulate and implement local activities in the best possible way. The partnership involved four organizations from four different countries such as England, Poland, Turkey and Italy, that work in different sectors with a specific focus on adult education, economic development, entrepreneurship and the social sphere: HRYO is a non-profit organization that operates in the field of human rights since 2009 using the non-formal education methodologies, considering education as an essential aspect to create a reality that promotes and protects human dignity, all aspects of equality and sustainability. Fundacja Autokreacja aims to promote the attitude of active participation in civil society. Through various initiatives in the field of social economy he wants to contribute to the civil, cultural and economic development of Poland, focusing the spotlight on the problems of various often marginalized social groups. Yenimahalle Municipality is the local administrative body of Yenimahalle, one of the metropolitan districts of the Ankara province. The municipality has an international relations office and the European Union that acts in cooperation with various institutions and organizations at local and international level and manages projects in the social and cultural sphere concerning women who are victims of violence, children at risk, disabled people and the elderly. In addition, the municipality of Yenimahalle runs a shelter for women which is recognized as one of the best in Turkey. The Ubele Initiative was founded in 2014 with the mission of contributing to the sustainability of the African Diaspora community in the United Kingdom and building a better future (Ubele in Swahili means "the future"). It is a new intergenerational community building initiative that aims to increase the capacity of our community to lead and create innovative and entrepreneurial social responses to some of the most problematic social issues. During this long 2-year project, beyond three transnational meetings among the partners, the project involved specific learning mobilities for staff and for the target groups in order to work together and exchange experiences and ideas. 12 staff members of the partner associations were involved in the mobility of two months each in order to work with another organization and experiment with new tools and methodologies. During the mobility experience, the interested person was able to feel as a part of the host organization and receive a training-on-the-job on the specific tool / practice and a deeper knowledge of the methodology behind it. Once back the volunteers / social workers / youth workers participated in the organization of the local activity regarding what he / she experienced during the period of mobility. Local activities lasted two months each and were divided into four different topics: ICT literacy, English language, business administration and female entrepreneurial skills. In addition, 2 short-term joint mobilities involved the target group and the staff. The main idea of this process is to develop competences, on the one hand to train social workers for the interventions targeting women and, secondly, to give disadvantaged women the opportunity to compare their background, the context and the experience with the other participants from different partner countries and to share ideas for future projects.