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WomInPower

2019-2-LU01-KA105-0501252019Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: LU|BY|IT|UK|PT|LV|AM|GE|DE · Grant: €50,102.21
Entrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationCooperation between educational institutions and businessSocial entrepreneurship / social innovation

Objectives

The project idea was born during the training course "AnOther Peace" (Luxembourg, July 2018) when one of the discussions brought to the idea of how connected/interdependent are peace and empowerment especially for young women. As the follow up of this session, our participant from Belarus initiated a collection of initiatives of WomInPower. In the beginning, it was just an initiative, but out of it already, few project ideas were born and applied (in Greece and Hungary). This is the third project based on the online brainstorming and idea collection of WomInPower. After sharing the draft project idea in the "AnOther Peace" group, many of our partners/colleagues saw the idea as very relevant and productive. Moreover, they expressed a significant need and motivation to participate in the project activities. The partners from Luxembourg, Armenia, Belarus and Germany created the outlines of the LTTC and attracted organisations from Italy and Portugal. In different countries the situation changes. Despite there is no country where the situation can be considered ideal to this extent, history proves that there are tools that can empower women. We understood that empowerment should be on different levels: at the individual level, to support the creation of their autonomy and economic independence, and on the social level, to promote their equal access to political, social power and the power enabling the forming of opinion. We were sure that the youth workers should start the process of empowerment and our project idea was to support them in this. After all discussions, we formulated our aim to create awareness regarding issues faced by women entrepreneurs and suggest ways to address these challenges. Accordingly, the objectives of the project were: - To promote women entrepreneurship as a tool for economic independence and gender equality; - To maintain the importance of initiatives for developing projects out of dreams; - To encourage youth workers to promote the idea of women entrepreneurship; - To equip youth educators with knowledge and skills necessary to train business planning and implementation tools. The project meets the following objectives of the KA1 activities in the field of youth work: - improve the level of key competencies and skills of young people, including those with fewer opportunities, as well as to promote participation in democratic life in Europe and the labour market, active citizenship, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion and solidarity; - foster quality improvements in youth work, in particular through enhanced cooperation between organisations in the youth field and/or other stakeholders; - enhance the international dimension of youth activities and enhance the capacity of youth workers and organisations in their support for young people in complementarity with the European Union's external action, in particular through the promotion of mobility and cooperation between stakeholders from Programme and Partner Countries and international organisations.

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