The project aims to empower young women with entrepreneurial competences which favor their personal and professional growth, enhancing their possibility to contribute to the development of the society.The objectives of the project are in line with the objectives individuated by the Erasmus+ Programme Guide for the capacity building project in the field of youth and in particular: o foster cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth between Italy, Spain, Portugal and Senegal, four countries that even if have different experiences, have found a common need: supporting young women to acquire entrepreneurial competences.o foster the development, testing and launching of programmes of non-formal learning mobility. partners will create and test an educational programme supporting young women to acquire competences and skills to start their own initiatives within organizations they cooperate with or by themselves. The test of the programme through different steps based on the active involvement of the participants, will allow for finalizing it and to share the results online with potential stakeholders. To favor this process, partners have identified a path to create and test an educational programme based on NFE methodology, that foresees 3 main phases.In general the path is composed of:1) Preparation phase, including: a Kick off meeting and online meetings2) Implementation and follow up phase during which there will be: -First phase training course -Online training course -Job shadowing -Local activities -Evaluation meeting3) A closing phase with a final event
POWERS, in line with the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme, aimed to develop, test and launch a programme of non-formal learning meant to empower young people in Senegal, Italy, Spain and Portugal, with entrepreneurial competences which would favor gender equality though personal and professional growth, enhancing possibility to contribute to a sustainable and equal development of the society.
POWERS project is a follow up of a previous project starting from the ideas and needs to fight for gender equality expressed by 8 young women from Italy, Spain and Senegal, members of the partnership organizations: in Europe exist a gender unbalance of wages level, working hours and number of people in decision-making position. In Senegal, even if women represent the majority of the workforce they maintain a low profile in the job field, suffering many times form marginalization and dependency
<< Background >> POWERS project is a follow up of a previous project starting from the ideas and needs to fight for gender equality expressed by 8 young women from Italy, Spain and Senegal, members of the partnership organizations: in Europe exist a gender unbalance of wages level, working hours and number of people in decision-making position. In Senegal, even if women represent the majority of the workforce they maintain a low profile in the job field, suffering many times form marginalization and dependency << Objectives >> POWERS, in line with the objectives of the Erasmus+ Programme, aimed to develop, test and launch a programme of non-formal learning meant to empower young people in Senegal, Italy, Spain and Portugal, with entrepreneurial competences which would favor gender equality though personal and professional growth, enhancing possibility to contribute to a sustainable and equal development of the society. << Implementation >> During the project has been created and tested an educational programme based on NFE methodology, composed of 3 main phases:1) Preparation phase, including a Kick off meeting and online meetings2) Implementation and follow up phase:- Online training course - Residential training course- Job shadowing & Local initiatives- Evaluation meeting3) A closing phase with a final event << Results >> Involvement of more than 34 young participant in an educational programme that lasted around 24 months. The participants, singularly or in team, concretely transformed their social entrepreneurial and educational ideas into practices by using competences acquired. Design of a free and open source online training course fully accessible long after the closing of the project and of a free on-line toolkit containing the project results and the educational programme of the project.