By implementing the “Femina” project, our consortium aimed to achieve the following concrete outcomes: Learners’ perceptions of their own performance, including involvement during program, application of their learning, and having confidence in the practical implementation (at least 80% of satisfaction). Provide our staff and target audience with cutting-edge digital and entrepreneurial skills which refer to the CCS. These skills include, but are not limited to, building digital portfolios, utilising various digital creative tools, effectively pitching their creative artworks, evaluating the quality of their digital outputs, efficiently boosting the digital networking in the CCS which will help the target groups become equal part of the workforce. Raise the self-confidence of our target audience when it comes to applying for a job or promoting their creative concepts. In order to achieve the above-mentioned outcomes, the main project objective was to create a digital educational resource training program.
The main motivation for applying for this project was that the two partner organisations experienced certain problems when it comes to hiring or collaborating with women. The project partnership actively works with freelancers and self-employed young people who are active in the cultural and creative sector (CCS). In 2022, 73% of the freelancers who collaborate with us are male which leads to a conclusion that there is a wide gender gap in the CCS. Therefore, all project activities were designed to narrow the gender gap by encouraging women to enhance their key competences and to make significant progress in the field of entrepreneurship and creativity. Particular attention was given to address differences in relation to the access to digital technologies by underrepresented groups - especially of women who are located in some remote and lagging regions across Luxembourg and Bulgaria to take advantage of having an effective and sustainable online presence. Our organisations’ analysis suggested gender inequality as being one of the leading reasons for experiencing lack of economic growth as well as embracing some more innovative creative approaches.