Young Female Entrepreneur Programme

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Young Female Entrepreneur Programme

Young women participating in the personal development process will receive specific and tailored support by different mentors that will guide them in their choices, ensuring also continued external support by the most appropriate local agents (such as training providers, social services, potential employers, investors, sponsors…), and their families above all the others. This will ensure sustainability in the proposed action and longer impact and benefit for the whole community.

What are we going to do

The Guide

in multiple languages conceived for a target of female youths interested in establishing and scaling up their own businesses, thereby overcoming barriers to meaningful integration and enhancing their inclusion as proficient members and participants in their own communities. The Guide is conceived as both a methodological resource, integrating theoretical information and exercises.

Digital manuals

aimed at instructing female seniors’ participants to mentor, empower and support others in their development process. The manual is intended in particular to all members of the YFEP NETWORK (female professionals, trainers, youth workers, social workers, HR managers, employers, entrepreneurs…) and by YFEP training course participants. In general, the tips can be useful to all people willing to improve their capacity to empower and help others in their work or improvement path.

Training Course

Training Course and tools are aimed at youth/social workers and trainers active in youth NGOs, with the aim of enhancing skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship, sustainability, participants’ engagement and support, multi-mentor program coordination, different form of assessment to be performed by participants, monitoring and assessment of participants’ activities and production.

Young Female Entrepreneur Programme

Challenges

The challenges that women identify in starting a business include discouraging social / cultural attitudes, lower levels of entrepreneurship skills, smaller and less effective entrepreneurial networks and policy frameworks that discourage women’s entrepreneurship. Instruments traditionally used to address these barriers (training and grants) have oftentimes had limited success and need to be better calibrated to the target group’s needs.

Aim

The YFEP approach aims at offering young women with the motivation to start a business (alone or with others) an all-in-one program (online contents and tools, workshops, group activities, multi-mentor support) in enlarging their knowledge on entrepreneurship, sustainable management, improve attitudes and foster skills needed to initiate and manage an enterprise, and most of all, empower them with the support of a multi-mentor program

Inspiration

The inspiration for the Young Female Entrepreneur Programme is the ongoing Europena Union challenge of enhancing the entrepreneurial spirit of young women, increasing business creation rates and providing alternative pathways of employability and, most of all, young women’s personal fulfilment.

Young People

Young people around the world are at the forefront of innovation and entrepreneurship. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report for 2015 finds that young people aged 18–34 display the highest rates of entrepreneurial intention, and those aged 25–34 display the highest rates of start-up activity. Younger entrepreneurs are often constrained by lack of access to resources, including financial resources, and legal and customary difficulties with ownership and rights.

Mentoring

The multi-mentors program is added because different expertise and insights from multiple sources are essential to bring out a more comprehensive support and possibility for personal and professional improvement. Involve 25 mentors among the partners’ wide number of contacts to improve the proposed multi-mentor program and ensure adequate support during the

Inspiration

The inspiration for the YFEP project is the ongoing EU challenge of enhancing the entrepreneurial spirit of young women, increasing business creation rates and providing alternative pathways of employability and, most of all, young women’s personal fulfilment.

kick off meeting

Warsaw, Poland. 7-8 November.

The purpose of a project kickoff meeting was to introduce the team, understand the project background, understand what success looks like, understand what needs to be done, and agree on how to work together effectively. 

STATISTICS

Statistics also points out that YOUNG WOMEN ARE MORE VULNERABLE to economic and social risks such as an unemployment than young men. 24.3% of women are not involved in any kind of education, employment, or training (NEETs), compared to 15.3% of men in the same age group (Eurostat 2016). In the EU, women make up 88 % of young people who are not in employment, education or training FOR FAMILY REASONS.

Partners

Fundacja Autokreacja

The Autokreacja Foundation aims at fostering the active participation in civil society through various initiatives in the field of social economy. We contribute to the civilizational, cultural and economic development of Poland. We want to put the spotlight on problems of diverse social groups that are often marginalized, that is why we focus on cooperation with persons from underprivileged regions, unemployed, elderly people, immigrants.

autokreacja.org
www.facebook.com/fundacjaautokreacja
www.linkedin.com/company/autokreacja
www.instagram.com/autokreacja_foundation

Aregai Tierre di benesere Associazione Culturalet

AREGAI is an Italian no profit association promoting activities and projects to help members of the association to improve and innovate without waste resources, making good use of all talents and knowledge in the value chain. Our members are people, professionals, entrepreneurs, public and private organizations willing to use more participatory approach to their work and pursue sustainability through concrete actions and behaviours, for the benefit of the whole community.

www.aregai.it/contatti
www.facebook.com/AregaiTerreDiBenessere 

MV INTERNATIONAL

MVI is a network of 37 European NGOs (one per Country and with members in each of 27 Countries of EU), 8 associate organizations from Africa (Cameroon, Kenya, Senegal and Uganda), Latin America (Argentina and Peru) and Asia (India and China) aimed at promoting participatory planning between NGOs fostering the exchange of knowledge among professionals in the field of European design.

 

 

www.engomvi.com

West Lothian Chamber of Commerce Limited

WLCOC, established in 1997, is a growing organisation that represents a large range of  usinesses with bases, headquarters or branches in West Lothian, Scotland. This gives us quite a voice – one that can aim to influence future legislation affecting our local economy, as well as working together to achieve the best conditions to make West Lothian a thriving centre of business. As one of the representatives of private business in the West Lothian Economic Partnership, we work with other partners to promote the interests of West Lothian.

www.wlchamber.com
www.twitter.com/wl_chamber
www.linkedin.com/company/west-lothian-chamber-of-commerce
www.instagram.com/westlothianchamber

Cyprus Organization for Sustainable Education and Active Learning (SEAL Cyprus)

SEAL CYPRUS is a non-profit organisation based in Nicosia, the ethnically divided capital of Cyprus. With our work, we try to overcome the results of the urban division, and our members are from both ethnic groups. The aims are providing educational opportunities to young people and youth professionals (youth workers & youth trainers) to improve the level of key competences and skills and to boost employability. To advocate the recognition of non-formal education, lifelong learning and youth work.

www.sealcyprus.org
www.facebook.com/sealngocy
www.twitter.com/SealCyprus
www.linkedin.com/company/seal-cyprus   

The Nest Social Cooperative Enterprise

The Nest Integration is the Hellenic Centre on Social Entrepreneurship & Social Innovation. The legal entity is a non-profit Work Integration of Special Needs People Social Cooperative founded in 2014. Shareholder mix: 60% registered asylum-seeking refugees and 30% unemployed Greek designers and professionals from the fashion industry. Its Vision is to create socially innovative business models that achieve work inclusion of excluded groups through transformational engagement, empowerment and mobilization of their talents.

https://www.facebook.com/socialfashionfactory
www.soffa.gr
https://twitter.com/soffagr
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKqxjmAxurLm145KQFIPcig
Instagram: #soffagr @soffa_gr 

Young Female Entrepreneurs Program

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Submission Number: 2019-2-PL01-KA205-066107