The main goal of the project was to prepare women of all ages (local, migrant, refugee and disabled) to return to employment or entrepreneurship after a period of economic inactivity by developing their key skills and competencies to improve labour mobility especially in rural areas where finding employment can more difficult by providing them with explore opportunities to create employment. Each partner had a specific area of expertise to support women in their region return to work: Sweden Mentoring; UK Entrepreneurship & Networks; Poland Working after Parenthood and Disability; Turkey Personal and Professional Development and Refugee women. This project worked to improve levels of employment by supporting underrepresented groups; women and more specifically migrants and refugees who represent an important pool of employment potential including entrepreneurship. The project objectives were to: -Share best practice expertise to exchange ideas, to develop, adapt and transfer new methods and tools between partner regions to support women develop skills and competencies to return to work -Disseminate this best practice to key stakeholders and educators involved in supporting women return to work to develop educators competences and to improve the delivery and support available to women -Empower women through practical and theoretical methods to build confidence, develop skills and competencies and identify career paths to return to work -Create a flexible movement of the labour market regionally, in the EU and Internationally -Promote peer learning to develop capacity -Create a sustainable network between project partners to share best practice to extend beyond the partner regions for wider EU and International benefit. Each partner hosted a Transnational Meeting in their region which included partners and key stakeholders. Each Meeting included a Project Meeting as well as a Best Practice Meeting with Presentations, Workshops and Study visits related to each partner's specific area of expertise. Each meeting lasted 3 days apart from in Turkey which was 4 days to include the final conference to share best practice. After each meeting a report of the best practice was shared through newsletters, the project Facebook Page, webpages on partners websites, and through the social media of each partner.

"The project ""Tourism: Empowering migrant communities to strengthen local economic development "" (TOURISM LED) will harness the cultural and heritage resources of migrant communities in partner regions for tourism led social and economic development. It will do this by sharing best practice examples between partner regions through civic engagement and bottom-up participation through community organisations and migrant networks to generate ideas that can be adapted to support entrepreneurship, employment and the economy in the tourism sector at a local level.The outbreak of Coronavirus COVID-19 presents Europe with a major and evolving challenge compounding the threat of migrant integration and socio-economic marginalisation. Tourism is currently one of the most affected sectors and The World Tourism Organization and the World Health Organization met in April 2020 to consider a coordinated response to COVID-19.Tourism is the 3rd largest sector of the EU economy generating 10.3 % of its GDP and employs 27 million people (11.7% of all EU jobs). https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/tourism/policy-overview_en). Tourism provides for cost-effective job creation with low barriers to entry and can stimulate localised self-supporting the service and creative sectors. Tourism is also the largest employer of young people, migrants, part-time workers and women. It is the main entry point to the labour market and provides job opportunities to people who want to re-enter the labour market.A key concern across Europe is the integration of MIGRANT groups into local communities which are themselves confronted with their own socio-economic challenges. MIGRANT ISSUES include the perception that they are an added burden to the local economy rather than having the capacity to add economic opportunities. The project will promote migrants as a positive force of cultural diversity and develop ‘know-how’ regarding how local and migrant communities can work together to develop tourist entrepreneurial opportunities for mutual, sustainable social and economic benefit and a sense of place for all.The TOURISM LED project will provide an opportunity for addressing the interaction between two sectors not as yet addressed, namely migration integration and tourism.Objectives:• to share best practice/ ‘ideas bank’ between partner regions and develop methodologies and curricula to generate ideas and ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING on how tangible and particularly intangible cultural heritage can be used to generate business and income in partner regions in co-production with local MIGRANT communities. MIGRANTS are viewed as key assets to create shared opportunities for economic benefit through inter-related localised tourism development.• to explore tools and models on how to develop bottom-up CIVIC ENGAGEMENT through community networks with local and MIGRANT communities and through positive integration of migrants to build sustainable business opportunities.The TOURISM LED project will work to support MIGRANTS through bottom-up CIVIC ENGAGEMENT with community groups, NGOs and volunteers. The project will encourage the establishment of networks that enable the local and MIGRANT communities to share opportunities and resources to work for mutual benefit related to localised tourism development. Sharing ideas for ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING through peer EDUCATION will use motivational strategies to provide access to upskilling and key competencies to inspire tourism entrepreneurship such as guiding, exhibitions, events etc.PROJECT OUTPUTS/RESULTS• STATE OF THE ART REPORT: Survey to analyse the situation of local tourism post COVID-19 in each partner region explore the employment/business opportunities for migrants in the tourism sector and to identify skills gap and training needs.• ONLINE HANDBOOK: A handbook with examples of best practice/ ‘ideas bank’ on how social, cultural and historical heritage has been used to generate tourism business. Training curriculum and methodology: to provide didactic guidelines for the training course materials.• COMMUNITY NETWORK TOOL BOX: with tools and models to guide community leaders, activities and business support agencies on how to develop networks with local and migrant communities. Through positive integration of migrants the project will build sustainable business opportunities to show how civil society can harness the social and economic capital inherent within migrant communities particularly through their enhanced participation in the field of cultural tourism and the attendant economic opportunities it generates.• LEARNING PLATFORMThe TOURISM LED project will focus on a local level with the view that building local economic capacity will impact at regional, national and European levels through widespread dissemination. Supporting local tourism will boost skills and employability which is one of the Erasmus+ programme overall objectives and can also impact more widely on the environment."

"The aim of the project ip4women is to improve gender balance and reduce the gender gap in patenting of inventions. Statistics show a gender gap in patent applications between female and male patent applicants. This highlights a contradiction since the people within academic and scientist area are almost equal from gender point of view, especially Ph.D. owners level and this equality should be reflected in patent applications.The project consortium approached this challenge by introducing a web based platform with patent e-mentoring concept training both mentors and mentees. Female inventors were e-trained and/or e-mentored to increase their abilities and potential of applying patent applications and the platform supplies also more enhanced initial and continuous training for those who would want to be a patent e-mentors for women in work- based environment. The project started with performing a user need study in order to provide a platform with content adapted to the target group. The platform with it’s content was presented in several workshops and continuously improved. The aim was to take the leap from mentoring to e-mentoring and trigger the users to digest the content by providing content in a text format adapted for reading online and additionally adding avatar for only listening to the content. The ip4women project is now offering several results contained in the platform and Erasmus+ Projects' Results platform as appropriate:- IPR & patenting practical multi-level e-learning ""content need"" analysis, via surveys through the aid of partner women NGOs in all project countries,- Multi-level IPR & patenting e-learning and e-guiding platform for e-Mentors as well as future patent applicants,- Online feedback system within the portal, model description report,- Testing report of the whole system, including mentor-mentee relations, individual information seekers responses, e-guiding performance by using above mentioned intelligent and interactive feedback toolkit. Whole system has been optimized by the use of these tools and aimed continuously to be improved by feedback of volunteer e-mentors for better sustainability of the complete ip4women system.The partnership was combined in order to been established to be able to realise all this ip4women environment as:- Uppdragshuset [SE] - IPR and patent specialist SME and R/D performer, expert in Mentoring,- MINERVA [SE], ZARIF[SK], TAKIDD [TR], FPK [PL] - Women NGOs having direct access to target group from different scientific backgrounds, various expertises,- POINT [TR] - R/D performing SME expert in Mentoring, development of e-Learning infrastructures,- ITeE-PIB [PL] - R/D in VET having also various patent applicant practices,- MOJMIR [SK] - VET and entrepreneurship training."