POWER UP

Empowering and Upskilling women with a migrant background to foster their social and labour inclusion
About

Migrant women have to tackle many barriers that prevent them accessing the formal labour market and from tacking part of the social and political life.

The POWER UP project aims the social and labour inclusion of women with a migrant background, by means of empowering and upskilling them with transversal skills.

www.powerupproject.eu

www.facebook.com/Power-Up-Project-110824037066236/

Target Audience
  • Migrant women
  • Trainers, coaches and social workers
  • Local stakeholders
Activities
  • Creation of a multilingual e-learning platform to offer two MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) on key social, civic and entrepreneurial competences; one for empowering women and other for supporting professionals
  • Production of a handbook of innovative technique for professionals working with women with a migrant background
  • Development of guidelines and recommendations addressing decision and policy makers to enable the social and labour inclusion of women with a migrant background
  • Engagement of migrant women, professionals, but also male members of the family and community
  • Organisation of dissemination actions and a final conference in all participating countries
PArtnership
  • Mindshift Talent Advisory – Portugal
  • Gender Alternatives Foundation – Bulgaria (coordinator)
  • Matertera – Czech Republic
  • Solidaridad Sin Fronteras – Spain
Start-finish

01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021

Media
Programme

ERASMUS+, Strategic partnership for development of innovation

2019-1-BG01-KA204-062546