The objective of the project is the empowerment of women through the development of a training course for their digital upskilling, as well as their psychological empowerment to reinforce their position in the labour market. The courses, based on the Found.ation Business Academy (FBA) a tailored professional skills platform developed by the Found.ation, offer structured and dynamic content on emerging technologies, innovation & digital transformation, which can be delivered with great flexibility. The content of the FBA have been adapted to the needs of unemployed women, as well as women who wish to pursue a career change but are reluctant. In addition to the digital skills that will be enhanced, the partners also developped a horizontal set of modules, aiming at helping women address the psychological factors that demoralise women for claiming a better employment or having access to job carreer. The implementation of the project activities lead the women to have a better position in the labor market, be ready to have a job interview and be able to present themselves in a propper way in base of the different contexts. We achieved our objective training more than 150 women who expressed their satisfaction for this opportunity.
For different reasons all the partners are living in a context in which women are still disadvantaged when we talk about access to job and employability. The EMPOWERED project created a training programme for women to achieve a two-fold purpose: on one hand, it equipped women with digital skills which are necessary in the era of digital transformation and are valuable for accessing the labour market with a competitive disadvantage, and on the other it addressed a spectrum of psychological obstacles women are facing when they need to claim a better position in the world of work. Therefore, the needs of the target group of the project which were met relate both to technical skills and emotional/ psychological reinforcement which is equally important for all women who wish to either find a job or change their career path. With the initial survey we noticed that women are asking for tools and strategies to ameliorate their daily life in their private sphere (time management-problem solving-motivation) and in the job field (Digital skills-motivation-balance professional and personal life, self-presentation etc..)