Mend The Gap – Mending the Pay and Employment Gap through Eco-entrepreneurship The project stems from the need to reduce the gender pay and employment gap at work that exists to varying degrees in Europe, exacerbated by the Covid 19 pandemic, through the development of innovative and sustainable learning tools.
The goal of the project is to provide educators working with young women (cis, trans, nonbinary) from disadvantaged backgrounds with innovative teaching tools to increase their knowledge in finance and self-entrepreneurship, with a focus on environmental issues and eco-entrepreneurship. Mend the Gap also aims to improve trainers' knowledge on the gender gap, on recognizing its social causes, and to take action to provide women with useful tools to increase their soft skills to be more competitive within the world of work, from an international perspective.
Project durantion: 24 months.
Data inizio e fine: 1/12/22 – 30/11/24
Partners:
Solution: Solidarité & Inclusion – Francia (capofila)
Artis Multimedia – Francia
Markeut Skills – Spagna
Spectrum Research Center – Irlanda
Le Tre Ghinee – Italia
Mobius Circle – Italia
Kainotomia – Grecia
Activities
A series of activities will be carried out within the project in synergy among partners.
The main results of these activities will be:
- A toolkit aimed at educators that will enable them to assess the skills that women have already acquired and that would be useful to start their own eco-business (entrepreneurial skills, management skills, technical skills acquired by working in specific sectors).
- A Train the Trainers programme designed for educators to teach green entrepreneurship practices and financial education to women with fewer opportunities who wish to start their own business.
- An online platform to provide free and immediate access to training courses also in blended learning mode.
- A strong and extensive communication campaign to disseminate the project results, multiply the impact on target groups and raise awareness of the importance of women's empowerment through financial education and eco-entrepreneurship.
