Specifically, these goals were set: - Help migrant women discover, understand and enhance their life skills and entrepreneurial competencies better. - Provide tools for migrant women to monitor and assess themselves continuously - Enhance the skills of trainers and coaches in identifying migrant women’s life and entrepreneurial competencies. - Create methods to enhance and develop one’s entrepreneurial competencies - Improve knowledge on how to empower migrant women with caregiving responsibilities to become self-employed or enter entrepreneurship The project partners believed that transnational partnership is a huge benefit to the project as this brings forward each one’s knowledge and experience and have it as a reminder that each country has its own culture and different paractices. Working together across countries was a test to adjust our ideas, taking into account the different cultures involved. This helped them to be more effective by comparing and understanding different situations and beliefs on how to include migrant women in the society.
In most parts of Europe, gender and migrant status are two significant challenges migrant women have in seeking employment, establishing a business, pursuing personal goals or even social inclusion. The project consortium, who have vast experience in business and working closely with migrants, decided to create this project, to address these issues. The project partners saw that the integration of the migrant women into the labor market will be beneficial to both the migrant women and the European Union, as this enhances social cohesion, prmotes economic growth and maximizes the benefit of migration. Since migrant women, or women in general, lead houselhold and caregiving roles, there is a connotation that those are the only things they are good at. This is of course wrong. These women just needs adequate exposure, support, development and trainings that will ignite the business side of them- most of the times they don’t know existed- and enhace their entrepreneurial skills and competencies. One more mutual goal was to challenge the notion that entrepreneurship is solely about company management. This is important among disadvantaged groups like migrant women, hindering their empowerment and the ability to take initiative.