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Mend the Gap – Mending the Pay and Employment Gap through Eco-entrepreneurship

Mend the Gap – Mending the Pay and Employment Gap through Eco-entrepreneurship

Implementation Period

01/12/2022 – 30/11/2024

Project Number

2022-1-FR01-KA220-VET-000087337

Summary of the project

the impact of the pandemic has deepened long-standing gender gaps in the economy: with women more likely to drop out of the labour force. Women in EU countries have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic because they make up the vast majority of workers in health and other front-line jobs. According to the latest studies by the European Commission, the gender pay gap in the EU stands at 14.1% and has only changed minimally over the last decade

In this context, Mend the Gap, a 24-month Erasmus+ project, was developed to support women in acquiring skills and competencies to become economically independent. For the educators, the project will create new teaching resources that women require to start their enterprises.

TARGET GROUPS
The Mend the Gap project has the following target groups:
-Educators
-Women

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The Mend the Gap project objectives are:

  • To provide educators working with women from difficult backgrounds with innovative teaching tools to enable them to access public and private funds and increase their financial skills to start their own eco-business;
  • To enhance educators’ knowledge about the gender gap and gender discrimination issues and provide the right tools to tackle
    them;
  • To upskill women educators in order to offer them new skills to make them more competitive in the labour world;
  • To strengthen educators’ skills in applying digital tools and methods in their practice;
  • To encourage innovation, research and exchange in Europe about VET related to women empowerment and ecoentrepreneurship;
  • To promote the acquisition of soft and entrepreneurship skills among women to empower them and emancipate them economically;
  • To promote the use and application of environmental practices in different entrepreneurial fields;
  • To raise awareness among the general public about the importance of empowering women by offering educators the right tools to increase women’s skills useful in the labour market.

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Project Results

  1. Educators’ needs Report. This result will be a study of the real needs of educators in terms of the competencies that they need to provide women learners with entrepreneurship education and the skills that they need to deliver blended learning dynamic classes.
  2. Focus Group Report. This report will be the result of the focus groups conducted in the partners’ countries to collect impressions, ideas and requirements from the educators.
  3. Assessment Toolkit. A tool in educators’ hands to evaluate their women learners’ expectations and already acquired skills before starting their courses.

A programme for blended-learning courses designed for educators to teach green entrepreneurship practices and financial education to women with minor opportunities wishing to start their own businesses. The Programme will be available on the e-platform and will include videos, interactive resources, PowerPoints and other teaching materials for the educators. Guidelines to provide blended-learning courses and to deliver dynamic classes online will also be developed to ensure that the educators’ online activities are lively and interactive.

An online open platform that will be free and accessible to all the target group members and interested parties. It will include all the main project results and it will be the main tool to deliver the online courses of the Train the Trainers Programme, as part of the blended learning methodology. The learners will have to register on the platform to be able to access the courses. The registration process will be easy and intuitive and will be done through the users’ email addresses. The platform will be specifically tailored to the users’ needs that will be collected through questionnaires aiming to receive impressions and ideas of the target groups about the platform. Thanks to this user-centred approach, the platform will be designed to be user-friendly and intuitive. Categorization of the contents and dynamic routing strategies will be kept into account in the development of the platform. The platform will be responsive and mobile-friendly to boost dissemination strategies and reach the highest number of users. It will also be translated into all partner languages to multiply the chances to have a real impact on the local field.

The Partnership

Solution: Solidarité & Inclusion – applicant partner, France

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Solution: Solidarity & Inclusion is an NGO based in Paris developing innovative actions to promote social cohesion through non formal education. The objective of the association is to boost social inclusion among younger adults by proposing several kinds of activities allowing to foster mutual acceptance, stimulate human interests by offering cross-cutting activities, design educational programs to open minds and strengthen fair dynamics between cultures and generations. Solution operates in a multicultural and socially complex environment: in Paris and its suburbs there are more than 100 different ethnic communities whose younger adults may face economic difficulties, as well as social and labour exclusion. Such groups are often excluded from extra scholar offers, which may help them to acquire new skills enabling a better integration into society. Solution’s mission is to propose to these people non-formal education activities bringing together different publics and stimulate, this way, intercultural and intergenerational dialogue while promoting the acquisition of soft and hard skills useful for professional and social purposes.

Le Tre Ghinee Aps – partner, Italy

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Le Tre Ghinee is a NGO based in Rome which has formed during the lock down as a response to the alienation and isolation that disadvantaged people have found themselves living, to create a network of support and exchange. It is named after the book Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf in which the author analyzes how the unequal distribution of power and knowledge between the genders is a key element in producing fascism. Le Tre Ghinee was born with the aim of activating and supporting the processes of emancipation and self-determination of each person, with particular attention to those in a state of vulnerability, through the fight against all forms of sexism, gender violence, homotransphobia, exclusion, discrimination, racism, xenophobia. And thus encourage the launch of sustainable and lasting paths of autonomy. It aims to promote universal access to knowledge as a response to social exclusion and to promote the value of interculturalism and the gender approach as the cornerstone of an anti-patriarchal society.

ARTIS MULTIMEDIA – partner, France

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ARTIS MULTIMEDIA was established in 2004 by Rachida HAMDAN in order to support various target groups, in priority neighborhoods. The aim was and still is to provide them, if necessary, with a social, educational, professional and civic accompaniment. To do this, Artis Multimedia acts on several fronts because they noted, during our many years of experience in the field, the importance of providing simultaneous solutions to different problems that are encountered by the beneficiaries at an individual or family level. Thus, the association has determined six fields of action for which we offer a variety of activities and workshops.

Mobius Circle APS – partner, Italy

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“Mobius Circle” is a young volunteering association based in the south-Italian Apulia region, committed to raising climate change awareness within our communities and promoting a sustainable lifestyle based on the 3 “R” principle: reduce, reuse, recycle, thus pushing to a circular economy transition. We believe that local small-scale economies carried by people
cooperatives should be the future way for sustainable living and production. Among all, we focus on the plastic pollution crisis by running a small recycling workspace based on the “Precious Plastic” open-source technology. We build small machines able to recycle some type of plastic waste and create all kinds of durable and useful objects that can be sold or donated. The objects we create with recycled plastic always keep an eye on a catchy and eco-friendly design. We also run zero-plastic campaigns which aim to reduce plastic consumption or help provide plastic-free alternatives to our community

MARKEUT SKILLS SOCIEDAD LIMITADA – partner, Spain

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MEUS is a private organization based in Valencia, Spain, aimed at bettering people´s capacities in their environment, both at professional and private levels. Thus, it focuses on the skills development of individuals at each stage of their life, from school to adult education. In line with the European strategy related to education, MEUS works on the development of new training materials and methodologies adapted to different target and market needs, so improving the integration of the labour market. MEUS is an expert in new learning methods, based on participative and collaborative ways of learning. Our training activities rely on experiential training and learning by doing, intending to keep the learners alert so that they can learn new competencies in an entertaining way. MEUS largely exploit gamification, developing challenges that trainees need to overcome individually or as teams. Our training activities are proposed on-site or online while collaborating with IT experts for the development of digital
solutions that are in line with our philosophy. MEUS also promotes the mobility of youth and adults, students and professionals as a way of learning from experiences in other countries, our organization has participated in a number of Erasmus + projects and accompanied blended / short-term mobilities.

Spectrum Research Centre CLG – partner, Ireland

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Spectrum Research Centre (SRC) was established in 2017 to support young academics to bring their research into action. SRC was founded specifically at the request of local social and academic researchers and post-graduate students, who identified a local need to develop a space where research hypotheses and findings can be validated through local actions. At the outset, SRC aimed to support academics throughout their research activities; however, as the company has grown, the aim is now also to provide academics with opportunities to give their research a European perspective. The number of academics supporting the work of the company has now grown to 22 and the long-term objective is to establish a Centre for
Educational Innovation where research findings can be put into practice.

Spectrum Research Centre CLG – partner, Ireland

More info
Spectrum Research Centre (SRC) was established in 2017 to support young academics to bring their research into action. SRC was founded specifically at the request of local social and academic researchers and post-graduate students, who identified a local need to develop a space where research hypotheses and findings can be validated through local actions. At the outset, SRC aimed to support academics throughout their research activities; however, as the company has grown, the aim is now also to provide academics with opportunities to give their research a European perspective. The number of academics supporting the work of the company has now grown to 22 and the long-term objective is to establish a Centre for
Educational Innovation where research findings can be put into practice.

KAINOTOMIA – partner, Greece

More info
“KAINOTOMIA” is a level two Lifelong Learning Centre (K.DI.VI.M2) in Greece, which is active in the field of Vocational Education and Training. KAINOTOMIA has implemented more than 60 continuing vocational training programmes for unemployed people, teachers of all levels of education, higher education students, employees/self-employed and vulnerable social groups, for the development of professional opportunities and their promotion and integration into the labour market and society in general, through innovative programmes. “KAINOTOMIA” provides consultancy services to enterprises and support and advisory services to trainees to facilitate their (re)entry into the labour market. “KAINOTOMIA” has participated in several national projects, offering a high degree of expertise in training in modern fields, combining them with those that are in high demand in the labour market in order to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of trainees for their integration into the labour market. Furthermore, “KAINOTOMIA” participates in co-funded national programmes called “local development and entrepreneurship projects for unemployed people based on specific local needs and development potential”.

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The European Mend the Gap partnership met in Valencia, Spain for the 1st Transnational Project Meeting on 9 January 2023. The project partner from Spain, MEUS, welcomed the coordinating partner (Solution, France) and the other partners coming from Greece (KAINOTOMIA), Italy (Le Tre Ghinee, Mobius), France (ARTIS MULTIMEDIA), and Ireland (Spectrum Research Centre) The partners, [...]
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