EASE, in its core, aims to establish the benefits, or potential benefits of Education for adult refugees, namely in a specific area core to job creation and social inclusion. Entreperneuship. The project involves 7 partners from the UK, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Romania. Its main target are refugee women, being its complementary target actors of the Adults Education Field. Our goal resides in: -improve the first to access the AE and then having a chance in the labour market; -Improve the AE offers by supporting the actors working in that in order to contrast negative phenomenon such as racism, lack of proposals, daily difficulties such as the language, etc. To achieve it, we aim, with EASE, to introduce this training solution (when re-qualifying, high education, low skilled workers or adult learning), ICT based innovation, exchange good practices in female entrepreneurship training, identifying what works in teaching and learning processes, but also in competences development assessment. Female gender, although sociocultural evolution, continues to be target of discrimination that increases the disadvantage situation in what regards the creation and use of opportunities in the labour market the inequality is obvious and recognized by all actors, especially in matters of income and professional and family life balance. The present project offers a tailored solution aimed at women in disadvantage situations, namely: - unemployed or inactive - first job seekers - entrepreneurs with activities in the underground, black or informal economy - single mothers The project specific goals are: 1. Create 1 joint curricula: work-based training courses to develop: business and soft skills, namely: language and communication, maths and calculation, ICT, responsibility and organization, resilience, entrepreneurship and creativity, cooperation and team work, negotiation and conflict management and marketing; 2. Train a specific number of women, in 6 countries, in groups of 2, to develop and implement business plans; 3. Support trainees through a mix of group coaching and 1-to-1 structured mentoring program; 4. Improve community and businesses engagement by creating fund raising opportunities to trainees present their business ideas.
The EASE project pursued the following objectives: encouraging women to set their entrepreneurial ambitions higher. Women who own businesses already contribute significantly to the global economy and there is no shortage of talent among female entrepreneurs; supporting the development of networks for women entrepreneurs thus extending access to mentors and established women entrepreneurs, as well as access to markets, new job opportunities and job creation; Given the assumption that networks are two-way undertakings, the project also has the objective to support women in obtaining an active voice in the process of job creation and entrepreneurship by empowering them to assume more leadership roles. To achieve the above goals, gender-specific programs are required. At the same time, care should be taken not to isolate women and to adopt a gender lens across all programming. About women refugees (our main target) and with actors of the Adults Education, the EASE project aimed at improving access to the AE first in order to provide women better opportunities in the labor market. The project also aimed to improve the level of women’s AE by offering support to counter the effects of racism, lack of opportunities, daily difficulties posed by language barriers, etc experienced by vulnerable women from host countries.
The EASE Project follows three simple ideas: to deliver an integrated solution capable of fostering inclusion through job creation; to support the development of skills for entrepreneurship; to promote integration through empowerment, education, training and self-awareness. It assumed that women who owned a business already contributed significantly to the global economy and that there is no talent shortage among female entrepreneurs. However, it is necessary to encourage women to set their entrepreneurial ambitions higher. It follows a Sustainable Development Goals call for ending poverty, addressing global inequalities and “leaving no one behind” by supporting vulnerable groups, achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls”. Such an approach encourages economic inclusion in the form of entrepreneurial opportunities for traditionally under-served members of society. Finally, the EASE Project addressed the difficulties newcomers find in assessing vocational routes - a lack of advice on suitable professional options, education and training. Career guidance tends to be school/university-based, therefore inaccessible to most adult refugees as there are difficulties with the official recognition of refugees’ previous qualifications.