The project is focused on solving gender inequalities in the European society - the underrepresentation of women in politics.Women’s educational organizations from partners countries / Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, Finland/ for years have been running education, but all of them expressed the need to refresh the perspectives, improve the quality of the educational services cause there was still inadequacy in resources educational actions consume and unsatisfied results they bring in public life.Collaborative work of the partnership /Poland,US, Finland,Czech Rep. Ireland/ has been designed to support planned educational programs,create new strategies and approaches as a result of collaborative learning and exchange of experiences.Implementation of the project increased social capital, competencies and professional skills of the participating organizations’ staff which positively influenced their educational activities and therefore helped to foster the speed of changes in European societies. The project activities included: 4 Transnational Meetings of the staff, 3 Joint Staff Training events, 1 Multiplier event – dissemination conference in Cracow and intellectual outputs: GEPLE Electronic Platform with the collection of innovative tools and materials, research report upon educational activities run in Europe.Total number of participants: 302 /adult education staff, trainers, lecturers, learners, volunteers/. Innovation was the engagement of the American partner, who brought to the project huge input and its own, very specific learning/training approach. The American partner shared its experience, know-how and ICT devices that have been supporting successfully development of digital democracy and female political leadership education over last years. Coordinator of the project: Active Women Association from Poland. Large dissemination campaignes helped to spread the results and outcomes in Europe. Intelectual outputs - mainly Geple electroni educational platform and research report are sustainable and accesible to public under Creative Common licence 4.0.

<< Objectives >>RE-FEM wants to empower women entrepreneurs through non-formal education and support them in adapting their businesses in the post-Covid era. The project aims to develop trainers’ capacities, improve women entrepreneurs’ competencies to maintain resilient enterprises, improve access to specific knowledge related to entrepreneurship throughout Europe, provide international networking opportunities and recommendations for policy and practice that stimulates women entrepreneurship development.<< Implementation >>The project implements activities to gain in-depth knowledge on women entrepreneurs’ situation and needs (comparative research), develop up-to-date, transferable educational tools (Training Manual, Online Course), create networking opportunities for the target groups and engage national, regional and EU-level policy-makers, decision-makers through project activities (inter/national multiplier events, international networking group) and aims to enhance the development of women entrepreneurship.<< Results >>The project has 4 tangible results: Research Report, Training Manual, Open Education Platform and Final Policy Study. The results will equip women entrepreneurs with digital competencies, higher resilience and crisis management capacity; provide trainers with non-formal and digital training methods and tools; improve project partners and other stakeholders capacity to better support adult education and reinforce cooperation of quadruple helix and interaction between practice, research and policy