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Empowering Women from ethnic minorities through Social Enterprise

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-IE01-KA204-038781
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 265,619 EUR

Empowering Women from ethnic minorities through Social Enterprise

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The EMwoSE project has successfully developed a suite of on-line resources to support women from ethnic minorities in social enterprises. They were developed following extensive engagement with women from ethnic minorities from the 7 partner countries and based on a literature review of the present state of the target group in enterprise and the barriers they encountered, a State of the Art report based on the surveying of the women and also the agencies that support the women in enterprise, a digital Storytelling Library with 32 4-6 minute videos and 35 transcripts of the women from the partner countries telling their stories and the on-line resources including 7 modules on topics that arose from the State of the Art analysis.It produced 4 intellectual outputs to address the identified needs related to the empowerment of women the in social enterprise field. These included -a state of the art report related to the current situation of women from ethnic minorities in social enterprise; -a digital storytelling library of 32 videos and 35 transcripts of success stories, sharing knowledge and best practice; -learning resources for coaching/training women from ethnic minorities including 7 modules providing knowledge and addressing the needs of the women as identified in the State of the Art Report analysis and -a web learning platform that has enlarged the network of relevant stakeholders.All of the materials are available in the partner languages (English, German, Lithuanian, Greek, Turkish and Italian) and are fully available free of charges on the project webpage www.emwose.eu.The rationale for EMwoSE emerged from the need to provide new scientific evidence on the factors that challenged women from ethnic minorities enabling them to set up their own social enterprises. The analysis also contributed to a better understanding of the needs and barriers faced by female social entrepreneurs, both from their own perspective and that of the experts involved. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in social enterprises by different organizations, groups, and individuals including women from ethnic minorities. Furthermore, according to the results of the present study, women from ethnic minorities contribute to the economic and social development of the region by serving those in need, supporting the local market, helping the integration of vulnerable groups, promoting different cultures and foods through social entrepreneurship activities. Thus, empowering women from ethnic minorities, through social entrepreneurship, is important both for themselves and for their environment. In this context, it is important to develop strategies and policies to encourage social entrepreneurship activities.The aim of this project was to increase the employment of women from ethnic minorities by providing them adequate guidance and accessible tools to be an active player in the SE world. The EMwoSE consortium of 7 project partners worked very effectively together bringing a range of expertise from education, entrepreneurial subjects, intercultural dialogue and gender equality issues, involvement in SE and training activities, dissemination, academic/research skills and project management skills together to deliver the project with high quality materials. Extensive consultation was facilitated by the partners and developed close working relationships with women from the target groups in their communities and thus enabled the partners to gather data at a local and national level. This was also critical to facilitating the in depth case studies (35 in total) which were developed for the digital Storytelling Library during the project. 7 training modules were developed based on the learnings from the State of the Art Report and case studies and are available via http://www.emwose.eu. The seven modules coverModule 1: Introduction of Social EnterpriseModule 2: Starting your own BusinessModule 3: Marketing and CommunicationModule 4: Running your BusinessModule 5: FundingModule 6: NetworkingModule 7: Sustainability

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