The socio-economic crisis that Europe is facing, has made the labor market is being severely hit and unemployment rates are increasing thus negatively affecting the EU’s potential growth. In this situation, the aim is for Europe to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Inclusive means, among others, raising Europe’s employment rates and helping people with fewer opportunities of all ages, manage change through investment in skills and training. Unemployment is particularly high among women and young people and this situation is exacerbated among disabled women who face a double discrimination: as women and as disabled people. In addition, these women are more vulnerable because of issues related to health-work balance, limited availability for training and access to resources, accesibility barriers, mental or psychological problems among others. Through the project, to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to physical and sensory disabled women for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability .Thanks to an European cooperation established by an appropriate mix of complementary organisations coming from different fields but sharing characteristics and objectives, this instrument will introduce new methodologies and tools to make easier the training access, assessment and development of competences and their transference to the labour context. So, the general objective of READY WOMEN project is to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to adult women with disabilities for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability and integration into the labour market, mainly through training actions related to the New Yields of Employment (NYE) and emerging sectors. READY WOMEN project, implemented through a partnership that includes 10 organizations from 7 countries, will allow reaching the following impacts: *Increase the self-confidence of women with physical disabilities in an individual and collective way. *Identify the existing relations between women with physical disabilities and employment opportunities and the NYE and the emerging sectors in each of the European regions covered by the project, recognizing the specific sectors with the greatest potential for being developed by physical disabled women after covering training needs of these women in each of them. *Detect the best practices in employment inclusion of women with physical disabilities related with NYE and the emerging sectors in each of the regions involved. *Emphasize the importance of training and improve physical disabled women’ skills keeping in mind that this must be a process of empowerment that will allow women to get the abilities to access to employment, and to take advantage from the ICTs. *Create a virtual collaborative network of women with physical disabilities from EU’s partners areas dealing with NYE and emerging sectors, with the aim of fostering the networking, the exchange of experiences and expertise, not only among these women direct beneficiaries of Ready women Project, but also between them and other women with physical disabilities already established in the market. *Implement a training course aimed to develop basic & professional competences and soft skills for women with physical disabilities. *Disseminate results, training and tools created at a transnational level. The project will contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy and targets regarding the role of education and training in social inclusion, empowering people and ensuring that citizens, in particular, adults disabled women with low levels of education, unemployed disabled women, and those who have left school early, can access lifelong learning and up-skilling throughout their lives and to improve their levels of employability and social skills.
The economic and social crisis that Europe faced after Covid-19 severely hit the labour market and unemployment rates are increasing. In this scenario, the aim of EU is to ensure that the right to training and lifelong learning, becomes a reality all across Europe, from cities to remote and rural areas, to the benefit of everyone. The Commission is placing skills at the heart of the EU policy agenda, steering investment in people and their skills for a sustainable recovery after the coronavirus pandemic. Unemployment is particularly high among women and young people and this situation is exacerbated among disabled women who face a double discrimination: as women and as disabled people. In addition, these women are more vulnerable because of issues related to health-work balance, limited availability for training and access to resources, accessibility barriers, mental or psychological problems among others. Through the project, to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to physical and sensory disabled women for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability. Thanks to an European cooperation established by an appropriate mix of complementary organisations coming from different fields but sharing characteristics and objectives, this instrument introduces new methodologies and tools to make easier the training access, assessment and development of competences and their transference to the labour context. So, the general objective of READY WOMEN project is to offer new opportunities and innovative instruments to adult women with disabilities for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability and integration into the labour market, mainly through training actions related to the New Yields of Employment (NYE) and emerging sectors. This innovative training program for social inclusion of disabled women through access to new yields of employment met the following specific objectives: Develop a qualitative study on relations between disabled women (mainly physical, organic and sensory disabilities) and employment opportunities on the NYE and the emerging sectors in each of the European regions covered by the project. Design of contents for implementation of a transnational training course aimed to staff partners on how to teach and train on basic & professional competences and soft skills for women with physical and sensory disabilities. Development of educational content and subsequent implementation of a specific training course in basic & professional competences and soft skills aimed to facilitate the access to employment in NYE for disabled women, as well as training the use of ITCs. Development of Virtual Community of European women with disabilities and training for employment in NYE, putting them in contact each other and with other disabled women already employed, in order to share experiences, knowledge, training, etc. It will be also uploaded to the site the educational content developed for wide spreading. Pilot implementation of accompanying process to access to employment for participant disabled women Disseminate results, training programme and tools created at national and transnational levels. Establish an evaluation Plan, report and improvement recommendation to implement the designed training programme READY WOMEN project, was implemented by an association of 10 organisations from 7 countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain and Turkey). In general, the target participants of the project were women with fewer opportunities because their disability and low qualification. Specifically, READY WOMEN Project piloted its training program with two main target group: with women with physical and sensory disabilities but also with other associated disabilities (intellectual, mental…). More than 200 women with physical and/or sensory disabilities participated in the different phases/activities. Also more than 50 trainers and educators tested the training programme and the results were disseminated to more than 200.000 people which have brought the following results: - 1 training program for social inclusion of disabled women through access to NYE. - Qualitative study REPORT on relations between disabled women and employment opportunities on the NYE available in 8 languages. - Contents and implementation of a transnational training course aimed to staff partners on how to teach and train on basic & professional competences and soft skills for women with physical disabilities. - Virtual Community of European women with disabilities and training for employment in NYE ( more than 136 registered women). - Piloting: Training courses (108 women) and accompanying process to employment for participant disabled women ( 80 women). - 7 Multiplier events and 1 Final conference attended for more than 200 stakeholders.