"The COVID-19 pandemic is a health tragedy, but also a human, economic and social tragedy that deepens the inequalities already at work in our societies and makes it difficult for thousands of European citizens to have regular access to employment and education. In this context, women who were already suffering from structural inequalities affecting all areas of their lives are at increased risk of being relegated to the margins of society, to extreme poverty and swept away by a vicious circle of downgrading from which they may take years to emerge. This is why ensuring their access to education so that they can continue to learn throughout their lives and particularly at this moment of rare intensity is absolutely key both to ensuring their dignity and empowerment, but also to supporting resilient, fair and sustainable growth in the European Union.Our ""Bookpower"" project (BPO) is part of this dynamic of training women to help them create, maintain and strengthen their empowerment through the combined power of culture and creativity. Drawing on the expertise of six European structures active in the sectors of culture and non-formal adult education, it consists of producing and making available to around a hundred vulnerable women in four European countries - France, Italy, Spain and Belgium - an innovative training programme based on books, bibliotherapy and cognitive sciences. In these countries, we target women between 18 and 65 years old in their local contexts:In Paris, women who are victims of violence (domestic violence has increased by about 30% during the crisis in France) and who wish to rebuild their lives through entrepreneurship thanks to the partner structure, Led By Her. In Madrid, low-income women from the popular Carabanchel neighbourhood via Espacio Rojo. In O Courel in Galicia, rural women, sometimes far from digital practices thanks to the intervention of the Uxío Novoneyra Foundation. In Palermo, in a multicultural city, migrant women and/or women in economic difficulties, unemployed or single mothers with low incomes through the field knowledge of e-arch. With this project we want to respond to the needs of vulnerable women in terms of - inclusion by connecting them to each other in order to create social bonds of mutual support, solidarity and shared values.- employability through access to a training path that develops their skills, helps them find a job or become entrepreneurs,- personal development and fulfilment through empowering pedagogical tools to overcome their limitations, become aware of their potential, engage, innovate and take action through the power of culture and creativity.Alongside the women involved, we train and hire around fifteen trainers and socio-educational facilitators in bibliotherapy, a new method of non-formal education, originating from the book sector and based on innovative neurocognitive approaches. Beyond the quality of the transmission, the link we are establishing with the trainers will allow us :- to enrich their methodological palette with approaches based on current disciplines, in full development, such as the cognitive sciences - to test innovative educational tools for vulnerable groups- to recharge their batteries, get inspired and work together to motivate each other, share good practices and contribute to the pioneer dimension of their sector - strengthen their skills in digital technologies and tools All this in a fast and connected age that invites us to remain curious and open-minded about pedagogy and methods of skills development. Training the trainers to train vulnerable women for empowerment is at the heart of our project from which we expect a behavioural impact, namely the stimulation of women's empowerment, their taking initiative in professional matters, the strengthening of their self-confidence, the development of their civic commitment and the fulfilment generated by regular access to the sources of beauty and inspiration that abound in the world of books.At the end of our project, via a new digital platform bringing together services, content and a learning path, these women and educators will have grown up together, adopted the method and will act as relays to disseminate it and make it last throughout Europe. In order to support this dynamic, the project will give rise to a dissemination kit, an empirical research article and the prospect of creating a network of various stakeholders dedicated to bibliotherapy within the framework of a discipline still to be structured and explored: educational cognitive sciences."