COVID19 emergency produces severe consequences on a socioeconomical level: economic crisis and social distancing measures hit the cultural ad creative sector and there is the talk of Shecession for the profound consequences of the crisis on women that exacerbate existing inequalities. The issue is sharper if we consider that access to the labour market is one of the main steps in the integration process of migrants, and migrant women, who represent more than 1/3 of them, find it particularly difficult. The Migration Policy Group believes that self-employment ands entrepreneurship represent a promising option for migrant women to access the labour market, if adequately supported. It is therefore necessary to provide essential transversal skills: entrepreneurial, to stimulate female entrepreneurship and reduce risks, and digital, to be able to innovate services in view of the changes dictated by COVID. In this context, adult organizations do not offer entrepreneurship education paths suitable to provide entrepreneurial skills and mentality to the target group, nor do they carry out actions that facilitate access to them. In summary, the needs for low-skilled migrant women and adult educators are: - increase competitiveness in the labour market, made more precarious by COVID19 - develop interest in learning and knowing about training support actions - develop basic entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of IT tools (more useful for COVID effect) - develop capacity to innovate existing tools and initiatives of entrepreneurship education, not adapted to the target audience - increase the ability to transfer content and involve through distance learning in the COVID era with innovative tools tailored to the target audience. The partnership EASEWE (Entrepreneurial educAtion for Self-Employment of immigrant WomEn) aims to contribute to the restart in the cultural and creative field by encouraging self-entrepreneurship of migrant women in the sector, increasing their employability with tools that strengthen digital and entrepreneurial skills aimed at self-employment and business creation. Specific objectives: - to support the work of adult educators by developing a path of entrepreneurship education designed for the cultural and creative sector and functional to female self-entrepreneurship, supported by IT tools - encourage low-skilled migrant women's interest in self-employment and improve their spirit of enterprise - to promote access for low-skilled migrant women to entrepreneurial and digital literacy paths, with a focus on the economy of culture, and to develop transversal skills - exchange and disseminate information and best practices in entrepreneurship education and support to entrepreneurship of migrant women, to stimulate public and private initiatives and support innovation in the cultural and creative sector in the postCOVID era. The project, in 24 months, intends to produce the following Intellectual Outputs: - Blended Training Course for low skilled migrant women - Digi&Entre-Toolkit Other activities planned: - Research and publication of a compendium on best practices in the cultural and creative sector during the acute phase COVID19 - Blended Training Course Test - 4 Transnational Project Meetings - 6 Multiplier Events - Awareness campaign - Entrepreneurial Contest Main expected results: For participating organizations - increasing the educational offer with contents focused on the economy of culture - development of a training course in blended-learning and with the use of gamification - increased cooperation between organizations active in the field of EdA, cultural sector organisations and institutions - increasing prestige at European level For migrant women - development of digital and entrepreneurial skills aimed at self-employment in the creative and cultural sector - Raising awareness about opportunities and policies to support female entrepreneurship - activation of entrepreneurial mentality and motivation to entrepreneurship - increased social inclusion, intercultural awareness and sense of belonging - Increased awareness of one's needs, skills and ability to transform one's skills into resources for personal development and self-employment For adult educators - increasing awareness of the training needs of potential target learners - knowledge of good practices in the field of Entrepreneurship Education and professional retraining aimed at self-employment in the artistic and cultural sector - knowledge of useful tools to transfer entrepreneurial and digital skills - increase of IT skills related to e-learning and blended training management - Increased knowledge of Erasmus+ and European initiatives on entrepreneurship
The specific objectives of the project that have been implemented and achieved are: - support the work of adult educators by developing an entrepreneurship education course designed for the cultural and creative sector and functional for women's self-entrepreneurship, supported by IT tools - foster interest low-skilled migrant women in self-employment and improve their spirit of enterprise - foster access low-skilled migrant women to entrepreneurial and digital literacy pathways, with a focus on the cultural economy, and develop soft skills - exchange and disseminate information and best practices in entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship support for migrant women, to stimulate public and private initiatives; and support cultural and creative sector innovation in the post-COVID era.
The COVID emergency has produced important consequences at the socioeconomic level: economic crisis and social distancing measures have affected the cultural and creative sector so much that we have begun to speak of "Shecession" due to the profound consequences of the crisis particularly on women, which have contributed to exacerbating structural inequalities. Hence the idea of the project to provide skills: entrepreneurial, to stimulate women's entrepreneurship and reduce risk, and digital, to know how to innovate services in view of the changes triggered by the pandemic. In summary, the needs for low-skilled migrant women and adult educators that were identified were: - increase competitiveness in the labor market, made more precarious by COVID19 - develop interest in entrepreneurship and learn about actions to support training - develop basic entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of IT tools - develop capacity to innovate existing entrepreneurship education tools and initiatives that are not appropriate for the target audience - increase capacity to transfer content and engage through distance learning in the COVID era with innovative tools calibrated to the target audience.