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eChance for Women Entrepreneurs Grundtvig project 2013 |
Partners
Suleyman Sah Universitesi TR-Turkey En attente
ITC
International TEFL Certificate s.r.o. CZ-Czech Republic En attente
Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Innovation in Learning Institute DE-Germany
Association M3- MCUBE FR-France
Universitatea Al Ioan. Cuza, Institutul de Invatare pe tot Parcursul Vietii RO-Romania Reserve list
D1 Summary
Women’s
self-employment and entrepreneurship are becoming more important worldwide by
removing gender segregation and rising empowerment and income distributions of
household in the society.
"E-Chance"
is a pilot project that supported new entrepreneurs with a diversified
spectrum. Main aims are (i) activation of potential female founders with
completed school education or professional education, who want to work in
networks; (ii) creation of cooperations - the founders should also have the
possibility to work in already existing networks of the mentors and the project
partners or to initiate such networks; (iii) exchange of information between
the associated countries for strengthening the regional economic structures.
Project
consortium will develop entrepreneurial training modules, methodical and social
competencies of women during the project. Participation in the e-chance project
will be cost-free and participants will make their time and knowledge available
gratuitous. After identifying needs of entrepreneur, pilot courses will assist
and support women in deciding on and implementing.
The target group of the project are female entrepreneurs (especially
unemployed women, women after a period of grace, women in economical problems)
who want to work in networks and cooperation systems. For women in
underdeveloped areas, the project also offer good
chances for self employment.
Project
will provide business advice and support for women setting up in business,
including business mentoring and entrepreneurial based business planning
courses.
As E-Chance
consortium, we believe that lots of women could make business from their dreams
and ideas. The project will help them successfully become self-employed or to start
up and run their own business.
D3 Project objectives and strategy
“e-Chance” project has a
mission to develop entrepreneurial women and to raise women's place in
community.
Main aims
are; to (i) promote a dialogue on women's entrepreneurship, (ii) exchange
experiences; (iii) promote e-learning and use of ICT, including especially
e-commerce and creation of a cyber-market as well as disseminating role models
of successful women entrepreneurs; (iv) facilitate the process of policy
convergence based on best practices; (v) builds personal contacts and networks
among related associations and individual entrepreneurs.
Objectives
of the project are;
(a) to improve the quality and to increase the volume of
cooperation among institutions, enterprises, social partners in European
partner countries,
(b) to increase social dialogue among participants and to
enhance social and cultural cohesion of community,
(c) to raise women awareness for self employment and
intercultural dialogue,
(d) to support the development of innovative ICT-based marketing
and other services for business women,
(e) to support entrepreneurship and links with the world of
work,
(f) to enhance understanding of cultural variety by organize
study visits during the transnational management meetings,
(g) to create successful transitions between training, guidance
and counselling organizations,
(h) to
exchange experience between, and networking, stakeholders (experts,
institutions etc) with a view to maximizing contribution made by partners to
reducing women unemployment,
(i) to develop digital learning environments for the acquisition
of key competences by learning with ICT,
(j) to promote digital entrepreneurial content relating to key
competences and encouraging women to use digital technology and resources
creatively,
(k) to create a communicative space to make exchange of
information become experience,
(l) to provide services and advice relating to copyright,
licensing, quality assurance, public-private partnerships and multilingualism.
D4 Results and outcome
F Project implementation
F1 Distribution of tasks
All
partners will actively participate the project
management, monitoring, evaluation and dissemination during 2 years.
Coordinating
institution, P1 (TR), will supervise the project, will plan tasks and
activities of the partners, and will provide ICT service of the project as well
as website of the project.
P1 will
develop guides, courses and tests with the following topics:
-
Communication and business mentoring
P1 will
prepare and combine entrepreneurship training needs analysis of partner
countries (output-1).
P2 (CZ)
will develop guides, courses and tests with the following topics:
- Searching
information on internet for effective business
-
Entrepreneurship steps
P2 will
finalize the E-Chance training curricullum (output-4).
P3 (DE)
will develop the following:
- Database
of organisations for female entrepreneurs (output-2).
It will
include organisation details and activities of related institutions around
European countries.
P4 (ES)
will develop the following:
- Project
web platform (output-3).
This will
be related to learning stories, project activities, news, links etc. It will
also translate to partners national languages.
P5 (FR)
will test and evaluate with the following :
-
Evaluations/analysis reports of business mentoring and trainings (output-5).
P6 (RO)
will take care of prepared courses implementation to e-learning platform in an
interactive and user friendly way, making sure contents are suitable for female
entrepreneurs need as well as provide training material for various
recreational programs as photo editing, sound editing etc. (output-4).
P7 (BG)
will publish e-bulletins at web sites and newspapers (output-6) as
dissemination activities.
Additionally,
all the project participants will carry out at least two courses prepared in
this project.
Project
final report will write by P0(TR) but all partners
will help to finalize it.
F2 Cooperation and communication
The impact
on staff in partner organizations will be:
- Wider
knowledge of the range of female entrepreneurs available and used across Europe
which can help individuals build social capital and
improve integration.
- An
increased knowledge of the impact that such tools can have on individuals.
- Learning
in how to deliver a range of female entrepreneurs' within the field of social
and vocational integration.
- Increased
access to professional networks in the field of business services.
The impact
on learners within the programme will be:
- Increased
exposure to people from different cultures, leading to greater understanding
across social groups.
- The
ability to access a network of contacts (through web tools) who
can provide advice and support on integration and life in their new country.
- Increased
confidence in taking an active involvement in their new community through their
participation in the mentoring and trainings.
F3 Participants involvement
E-Chance
project has seven partners from Turkey, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain,
Romania.
Suleyman
Sah University (P1, project coordinator) has extensive previous experience of
running European projects for other organisations and is, therefore, aware of
the skills needed to aid effective communication between transnational
partners. The coordinator will manage a structured communication process which
will emphasise trust, cooperation and the need for open and transparent
communication between all partners. They will also ensure that all partners are
aware of project deadlines and that these are realistic for all.
A
communication plan will be jointly developed and agreed upon at the beginning
of the project, allowing partners to agree on the frequency, type and volume of
communications which they expect from each other in order to facilitate open
communication from the beginning.
In between
face to face meetings, partners will rely heavily on online communication
tools, i.e. email, skype and online meetings as well as telephone
conversations. There will also be an online space set up where partners can
share documents and exchange information.
All
partners will be actively involved in the planning of each activity based on
the knowledge gained from the ideas sharing and research stage of the project.
Each will develop and implement their own pilot session for business mentoring
and female entrepreneurship training aimed at the target group. Learners will
take part in the pilot sessions and will then be involved in the evaluations in
order to give their own opinion on the effectiveness of the method in building
social and labor market integration and improving their ability to become
better integrated within their community. They will also give feedback on any
improvements that could be made. This feedback will be used to inform the final
guide, which will be produced with input from staff and learners. Learners will
also be involved in planning and implementing the web-based tool by providing
input on the tools which would be most effective and useful for them.
F4 Integration into ongoing activities
E-Chance
project will be integrated into ongoing activities of the partner organisations
as each partner is already an expert in the field of personal development
interventions and are already involved in work with this target group through
their organisations and are therefore involved in a number of projects and
activities in this area. As a result, partners will ensure the integration of
results from the project into other areas of their work, as they will be able
to immediately transfer and apply any knowledge gained from the project.
On a
practical level, organisations will also look for synergies between this
project and other ongoing activities in order to inform other work, both within
their national contexts and across different partners in Europe. Also, partners
will disseminate results and products from this project into other related
projects across Europe, again ensuring integration within relevant project
fields.
F5 Evaluation
At the
beginning of the project all partners will discuss the aims and needs of their
own organisation in relation to the project and a set of measures for success
will be developed taking into account what each partner wishes to gain from
their involvement. These measures of success will be revisited at the end of
the project and evaluated in order to see if the project fulfilled these needs
and expectations.
After each meeting,
the management of the partnership up to that point and the meeting itself will
be evaluated in order to ensure that partners are satisfied with the
cooperation between partners, balance of activity, knowledge sharing etc. The
pilot sessions of business mentoring and entrepreneurial training will also be
evaluated with both staff and learners in order to ensure they are useful and
relevant to the needs of the project and the target group.
Finally, at
each stage of development of both the guide and web tools the work will be
evaluated by staff and learners to ensure it is providing correct and necessary
information and is user-friendly. The final products will be evaluated by
distributing questionnaires via Survey Monkey to those individuals and organisations
using them to judge their effectiveness.
Project
partner organizations will assist decision processes, internal and external
communication, financial management, risk minimization, lead management in
valorization activities.
Description
and determination of quality criteria for each Quality Report will determine
measurement for process of project and outputs. These quality reports are;
Quality
Report-1: Work performance evaluation report
Quality
Report-2: Effectivity report for outputs
Quality
Report-3: Dissemination, valorization and visibility report
F6 Dissemination and use of results
The project
will have multiplier effect by aiming at innovative and effective ways of
bringing Europe closer to citizens, of involving them in European citizenship
and a process.
Project
should play a role in having citizens have their say in European project and
should show how people can play their part in the European construction.
Project
will be enhanced effectiveness of public institutions’ and other stakeholders’
action by means of an integrated approach towards the objectives of sustainable
development, fostering the synergies and coherence between different actors’
involvement.
Objectives
of the dissemination are:
- to ensure the general spreading of the project’s
information,
- to ensure the extension of awareness about the project’s
outcomes,
- to design a strategy of sustainability/dissemination of
E-Chance project.
Activities
planed to take place in the valorization are:
- General
dissemination plan (each partner institution will design a dissemination plan
according with its networks and resources).
- Special
sessions (work shops, seminars).
- Each
partner will organize its country round tables discussion forums, debates for
disseminating the outcomes.
- Each
partner will have the task to establish a list with national events for
E-Chance dissemination (during the project).
- The
activities planned for the period after the end project will be included in the
sustainability work plans.
G2 Work programme
