The COVID-19 pandemic produces serious consequences at a socio-economic level, with a stronger impact on targets and fields that are structurally more fragile.
The economic crisis and the social distancing measures hit harder on the cultural and creative field, which is made of micro-enterprises, non-profit organizations, and professionals that are more vulnerable to the consequences of the crisis. In a recent study, the ILO included workers of “arts, entertainment and recreation, and other services” in a medium/high risk category: working relationships are unstable, selfemployed people prevail and there are usually discontinuous and short-term contracts paired with undeclared employment. “Shecession” (she-recession) is the word created to underline the profound impact of the crisis on women at a socio-economic level, that deepens structural inequalities. In the “Europe 2020” plan, it has been already stressed the importance of increasing women’s employment in order to encourage an inclusive economic growth. However, it has been highlighted the fact that women are one of the most affected categories by the economic crisis (UN, “The impact of Covid-19 on Women”). |
The problem worsens when taking into consideration that the access to the job market is one of the firsts steps to take for immigrants in order to start their integration. According to Eurostatevidence, immigrant women experience a double discrimination on the workplace, and they have less chances to find an employment. Moreover, women often take over family obligations that keep them from training courses for adults, requalification measures and other integration’s programs.
Therefore, it is essential to proceed supporting autonomous work for women, that could encourage an entrepreneurship training. |
The specific aims are
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To support the work of Adult Educators by developing a process of entrepreneurship education. It should be designed for the cultural and creative field, functional to women’s self-entrepreneurship and it should be supported by the use of informatics tools
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To support the discovery of self-entrepreneurship by immigrant low-skilled women and to improve their entrepreneurial spirit
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To support the access of immigrant low-skilled women to entrepreneurial and technological trainings, with a specific focus on economics and on developing cross-sectoral skills
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To share and spread information and good practices in the entrepreneurial education field and in the field of immigrant women entrepreneurship, in order to support public and private efforts and to support the innovation of the cultural and creative field in a post-pandemic era
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The project can be effective at a European level taking into consideration the spreading of the problem and the variation and replicability of the project in Europe.
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Eutrepreneurial education for creAtive self-employment of immigrant WomEn (EASEWE)
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