Orient2work: Orientation Activities to support the Access of Vulnerable Women into the Labor Market

Mentoring activities to support vulnerable women’s access to the labour market

Project number: 2023-1-IT02-KA210-ADU-000151110

Implementation period: 01/10/2023 – 30/09/2025

General Objective

In Europe, the gender gap in labour market participation increases for vulnerable women due to economic and cultural factors.

Vulnerable women are at a higher risk of social exclusion or marginalisation due to poverty, disability, low educational attainment, lack of social support, discrimination and limited access to resources and opportunities.

Orient2Work aims to establish a collaborative network to improve the effectiveness of mentoring activities as a tool to facilitate access to the labour market.

Fotografía grupal Sesión coordinación proyecto Orient2Work 1

Activities

The project combines virtual and face-to-face activities with a focus on greening and inclusion, monitoring environmental impact with carbon footprint, full stakeholder participation and overcoming obstacles due to disabilities or other cultural and/or social barriers.

The project foresees online and face-to-face meetings, trainings and working groups, always focused on the relationship as the best tool for learning. tool for learning. The specific activities to be carried out are:

  • Activity 1 - Management and coordination of activities
  • Activity 2 - Kick-off meeting
  • Activity 3 - Networking, research and exchange of good practices
  • Activity 4 - Transnational training in Seville
  • Activity 5 - Transnational training in Paris
  • Activity 6 - Pilot testing of the model with women in Italy
  • Activity 7 - Pilot testing of the model with women in Spain
  • Activity 8 - Pilot testing of the model with women in France
  • Activity 9 - Pilot testing of the model with women in Turkey
  • Activity 10 - Final meeting in Turkey
Fotografía Inauguración proyecto Orient2Work 2
Imagen captura pantalla ORIENT2WORK Reunión inicial

Results

The partners expect to involve about 30 professionals from the partners' staff, 40 beneficiaries, 20 stakeholders, 4 private and public organisations working to tackle unemployment, the creation of a website as a platform to host an open network for professionals, beneficiaries and stakeholders, a handbook, as an important deliverable, to integrate the project results and a shared guideline on how to prepare an orientation pathway.

Partners

  • Pmi Services Soc. Coop. arl., Italy - Coordinator
  • Pozitif Diyalog Dernegi, Turkey
  • Gip Formation Continue et Insertion Professionnelle de L'Academie De Creteil, France
  • Federación Provincial de Asociaciones de Personas con Discapacidad Física y Orgánica de Sevilla, Spain

Web and social networks

More information

All the information about the programme can be found at the link:

https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2023-1-IT02-KA210-ADU-000151110

News from the programme can be found under the tag Orient2Work

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