The main objectives of the project were: - To develop an adult guidance framework based on successful practices across Europe to better interpret and responds to challenges faced by low skilled women from disadvantaged backgrounds - To equip guidance practitioners to identify relevant competencies and update the guidance service provisions to the specific needs of targeted women based on their career and personal development paths, focusing on their digital literacy and potential in the digital sector. - To encourage adult women to be empowered, more resilient and become aware of their own competencies for the modern labour market, particularly in relation to digital, communication and interpersonal skills - To improve and extend the supply of high-quality and learning opportunities for adult women, targeting their specific needs in respect to life and employment challenges, through easily accessible digital resources within the existent local services.
The motive for this project was to address the challenges around women’s inequality by enhancing the capacity of guidance practitioners to better support and empower low skilled women from disadvantaged communities to access learning opportunities and employment. The impact of Covid-19 increased home working opportunities providing both a challenge and an opportunity to empower women to consider careers in the ICT sector. The project aimed to enhance the capacity of guidance practitioners to avail of this change and to empower women in turning points of their career, lone mothers, migrants, unemployed, on precarious employment as well as self-employed women looking at sustainable independent living. To address these issues, the project developed a training curriculum to improve both the IT skills and workplace competences of disadvantaged women.