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WISE - Women Integration and Skills for Entrepreneurship

WISE - Women Integration and Skills for EntrepreneurshipWISE is a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project co-financed under the priority 2: Developing the Quality of Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems and practices, and there focusing in particular on "Developing relationships between the labour market and VET".

It is geared at three main problems of women entrepreneurs in the ICT/ICT-supported sector:

  1. lack of definition of women's needs; lack of education/training strategies to improve working environment towards "women-friendliness";
  2. lack of efficient training tools for (self)-assessment and
  3. creation and seizure of market opportunities.

At the same time, studies conducted at European level showed that there exist women-specific needs. The objectives of WISE are the following:

  • Benchmarking analysis of national vocational training policies and practices dealing with women entrepreneurship. The comparative analysis will be based on documentation/material available (to avoid to re-invent the wheel) and qualified opinions of selected stakeholders in the target countries;
  • Identify and dissemination best practices in the European education and training systems enabling women entrepreneurship;
  • Identifying needs and deficiencies that women entrepreneurs suffer in their job to manage and/or set up new businesses;
  • Assessment of women's capacities/company's needs in order to "develop relationships between the labour market and VET";
  • Drafting guidelines for strategy/remedy: "bottom-up" as assessment tools for women to promote themselves, "top down" to create a gender-friendly = women-friendly environment. Furthermore, the different level of training/formation will be investigated where gender-sensitive elements must be introduced to foster a long-term impact. Out of these findings will result guidelines and criteria to adapt training and formation modules to the market needs.
  • Assessment of the different levels of training/formation will be investigated where gender-sensitive elements must be introduced to foster a long-term impact. Out of these findings will result guidelines and criteria to adapt training and formation modules to the market needs.
  • Test findings and best practices in real business environments (trial phase) with selected groups of women entrepreneurs and SMEs in the ICT/ICT-supported sector. To this purpose, WISE will organise 5 pilot workshops in Spain, Austria, Estonia, Poland and Cyprus.
  • Valorisation of project results, mobilising target groups and potential users and stakeholders to raise a broad visibility of he actions and outcomes of the project and to guarantee exploitation of the results beyond the project phase.

Project description (PDF, 35 kB)
Announcement: Workshop 22 September 2006, Vienna, Austria (in German language) (PDF, 30 kB)

Further information

Dr. Gabriele Sauberer, E-mail: gsauberer@termnet.org

  
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