The project has a strategic impact on the future of women-led businesses in rural areas by increasing the knowledge of entrepreneurship among members of women's organizations in rural areas. The main goal of the project is to improve the skills and competences of members of rural women's associations by implementing interactive courses corresponding to the educational needs of the project's target group. Maintaining the achieved results and the training platform is also an important part of the project's sustainability strategy. The interactive model will be implemented not only as useful, but also extensible by adding case studies and best practices. The case studies are not only supplementary material, but also an example of the possibility for new beneficiaries to implement the idea in another region of Europe. In line with this strategy for smart rural planning, existing problems of the digital divide can also be overcome. In addition to the group of promoters and directly involved networks, associations, training centers, universities and lifelong learning providers are also interested in the possibility of using online courses.
In Slovakia, more than 44% of the total population lives in rural areas. However, women are more and more often just the owners of farms or businesses, so it is absolutely appropriate to address the specificity of women business, especially in rural areas. Even now, the European Union places great emphasis on emphasizing the role and importance of women in rural areas by introducing activities aimed at bringing them together. Women often do not make full use of the existing possibilities of obtaining EU funds due to socio-cultural and psychological barriers. Therefore against it It is a phenomenon in Slovakia that women can now join in various women's associations. And that's also why we decided to implement the WOBIS project. Due to urgent needs target groups in partner countries. That is, due to the high marginalization of rural areas and the low level of entrepreneurial skills of women in rural areas, because often women in rural areas are excluded from business. Even if they would like to learn how to implement some new business, there are many social and knowledge barriers.