empowerWOMENt : Successful
Entrepreneurial Empowerment for Women in start up business
Erasmus +
24 months :
2016 –2018
Partners
The EmpowerWOMENtproject is being implemented by a transnational Consortium of 8 partners :
Ankara Provincial Directorate for Family and Social Policies (coordinator, Turkey)
University of Grazi, deparment of women studies (Turkey),
FH Joanneum University of Applied Studies (Austria),
Fondazione Risorsa Donna (Italy),
Association Working with Europe Treballant amb Europa (Spain),
IEBA Centro de initiativas empresareais e sociais (Portugal),
Asociatia Pentru Participare Cetatenesca (Romania),
M3Cube (France).
The focus in empowerWOMENt
is on women in the start-up phases of running their own business (2-3 years)
and meeting their training needs.
The project aims to design and pilot such
ecosystems in different partner countries, and to produce case based guidance
to other European communities.
The results of the empowerWOMENt
are a significantly increased sustainability of the involved start-up women’s
business, the creation or reinforcement of local and virtual eco-systems of
support and the production of high quality guidance and support to groups of
start-up women across Europe:
1. Further qualify the women’s entrepreneurial
skills and knowledge
2. Strengthen women’s identity, encourage women
to take new paths, work on different role models, reconciliation of family and
career
3. Creation of the empowerWOMENt
open virtual platform
4. Women’s Voices – video interviews with
start-up women
5. The transnational women’s workshop
6. Start-up women’s training material
7. Local empowerWOMENt
WORKSHOPS
8. Local empowerWOMENt
events
Background and Objectives
Women in entrepreneurship are a great source for growth in Europe. However
they need different approaches than men as they might choose different business
areas and work differently. Many women like to include social values in their
work. This is why we need entrepreneurial ecosystems for women, based on their
own life experiences and value systems.
In this context ecosystem means communities of support structures, mutual
help and networking resources put at the service of entrepreneurial women
- an interactivity creating its own self-sustaining ecology. The project aims
to design and pilot such ecosystems in different partner countries, and to
produce case based guidance to other European communities.
The core mission is to empower entrepreneurial women to create such eco-systems
themselves in support of consolidating and expanding their business.
Local Target Groups
- Primary target group: entrepreneurial women in fragile and often difficult
business (products or services) start-up situations (1-3 years) and in need
of support measures including local and virtual eco-systems
-Secondary target group : experienced and successful entrepreneurial women
offering inspiration and practical useful guidance
-Tertiary target group: existing, emerging or new local eco-systems of support
in the partner communities, including entrepreneurial drivers and enablers
in the community
European Target Groups
- Primary target group and beneficiaries: similar start-up groups of women
across Europe, including existing or emerging eco-systems of support
-Secondary target group : European audience of entrepreneurial learning, including
professionals, researchers and a wider community of stakeholders
-Tertiary target group : European policy-makers and funding programmers in
the fields of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning
These target groups are built up along the project progression, based on the
dissemination of project outcomes.