GEEA – Gender Equality and Entrepreunership for All

Number of project: 2015-1-RO01-KA202-015035

Support programme: Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training.

Description: The main objective of this project is to raise awareness of equal opportunities between men and women, especially in VET education and to promote entrepreneurship as a solution to the gender gap in both educational and labour market.

The GEEA project’s specific objectives are:

to set up a partnership of organisations that raise awareness on equal opportunities and orientate target groups to work
to devise tools to analyse gender issues and offer guidance
to produce a series of core publications
to establish means and methods for participants to share their experiences, results and expertise
to create a new approach to promote entrepreneurship education as a solution to gender gap in the employment rate
to promote existing best practices through dissemination
to connect national and European initiatives.

Partnership:

Unirea National College, Rumania – Promoter
Professional Foundation, Rumania – Partner
Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IED), Grecia – Partner
PIXEL, Italia – Partner
The Associação Paredes pela Inclusão Social (APPIS), Portugal – Partner
Leonardo Da Vinci First Private School, Bulgaria – Partner

Project outcomes:

“State of the Art of Gender Equality” in each partner country;
“Code of Conduct on Gender Equality for decision makers in the world of Politics”, VET, Adult School Education, NGO’s;
Mentoring Activities with young entrepreneurs;
Analysis of training needs of teachers and trainers of teachers and analysis of pedagogic methodologies;
Guidelines for Teachers and Trainers and Training Kit for Students;
Project’s Website where all materials are available;
Online Community that will exploit project’s results.

Our role: ESMOVIA will be an Associated Partner in this project contributing to the dissemination and exploitation of the project.

Project web: http://www.geea-project.eu

Tags: #Gender #Equality #Entrepreneurship #GenderGap #VET