The economic and social crisis that Europe is facing has led to a sharp decline in economic activity and recession. The labour market is being severely hit and unemployment rates are increasing thus negatively affecting the EU’s potential growth. In this scenario, the aim is for Europe to become a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. Inclusive means, among others, raising Europe’s employment rates and helping people with fewer opportunities of all ages manage change through investment in skills and training. Unemployment is particularly high among women and young people and this situation is exacerbated among migrant women and women at risk of social exclusion. In addition, these groups are more vulnerable because of issues related to work-life balance, limited availability for training and access to resources. The general objective of WhomeN Project is to offer new opportunities and competences to adult women at risk of social exclusion (immigrants, long-term unemployed women, young women with low level of education, single mothers, unemployed women, over-45,…) for improving their qualifications and thus their levels of employability and integration into the society, mainly through innovative methodologies of recognition of skills and competences that include transversal and soft skills. The project focuses on the development of an effective protocol for the evaluation of skills and competences based on EU guidelines for validation and recognition, ECVET and EQAVET tools. This will allow a further professionalization of occupations commonly carried out by women at risk of social exclusion ( as for example Personal House-hold Service, hotels, restaurants and caterings (HORECA)and others), and a better integration of these women that develop these jobs without official professional qualification but with a lot of experience and competences. These skills and competence recognition process have the objectives: - Define of specific training itinerary according to each prospective target group and each occupation. - Develop a protocol for the evaluation and recognition of skills and competences within the most common job roles developed by women at risk of social exclusion (based on EU guidelines for validation and recognition, ECVET and EQAVET) that includes tools for monitoring and quality assurance. -Design curricula and pedagogic material for employment advisers/ officers on how to implement the protocol that includes special attention to soft skills and guidelines to introduce standards to respect for cultural diversity and gender equality. -Produce two courses for employment officers/ trainers on how to implement the protocol in different contexts of competences background and with different target groups. -Disseminate the protocol in each partner country trough guidelines and other methodological tools. -Implement training courses in each territory aimed to develop professional competences and soft skills for women according to specific training itineraries established by each partner. -Disseminate results, protocol and tools created at a transnational level. WhomeN project, implemented through a partnership that includes 9 organizations from 7 countries, will allow reaching the following impacts: * To give a European dimension to the process of recognition of professional competences and personal competences trough soft skills that will allow these women with fewer opportunities to improve their socio-occupational integration process. * Enhancing of intercultural and cross-sector cooperation among organizations involved in the partnership. * Capacity-building among professionals (staff) from organizations in the exchange and transfer of know-how, transversal skills increase, tutoring and counseling, among other issues. * Establishment of networks at EU level of organizations involved in training, education, cooperation, innovation and/or professional competences and soft skills recognition, among other topics. *Design of an effective and usefulness tool aimed to the self-evaluation of personal competences and connecting with EU guidelines EQAVET and ECVET and that includes formal competences recognition process. * Promote employment for women with fewer opportunities through the design of personalized itineraries to recognize professional and personal skills. * Disseminating project outputs at a large scale. WhomeN project will contribute to the Europe 2020 Strategy and targets regarding the role of education and training in recognition of competences, empowering people and ensuring that citizens, in particular, adults who have low levels of education, the unemployed, migrants, and those who have left school early, can access lifelong learning and up-skilling throughout their lives.