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EmpowerHer: Ensuring digital innovation (gamification), quality and recognition in YW for better gender balance in entrepreneurship education

2023-2-PL01-KA220-YOU-000180172

Objectives

  • Empowering young women aged 16-21 in entrepreneurship: Providing entrepreneurial and transversal skills to foster initiative and active citizenship, using non-academic time with innovative and immersive learning opportunities.

  • Promoting innovation in youth work: Developing digital tools and innovative methodologies such as the use of role models, mentoring and storytelling to improve the teaching of entrepreneurship.

  • Strengthen the training and professional development of youth workers: Train youth educators with resources and methodologies to effectively support young women with entrepreneurial aspirations.

  • Building support networks for young female entrepreneurs: Connecting entrepreneurial young people with mentors, investors and potential collaborators through pitch competitions, podcasts and storytelling.

  • Promote inclusion and access to entrepreneurial education: Ensure the participation of marginalized groups of young women in quality training programs, helping them develop the skills necessary to create and manage businesses.

  • Integrate non-formal learning into the development of entrepreneurial skills: Introduce interactive and experience-based methodologies that enable entrepreneurial skills to be acquired in a practical and attractive way.

  • Using digital tools and gamification to teach entrepreneurship: Develop a Virtual Reality Escape Room that allows young people to practice business skills and receive guidance on building business models.

  • Mapping female entrepreneurs in Europe: Create a database with inspiring stories of female entrepreneurs, accessible on the EmpowerHER Portal with interactive and educational tools.

  • Organise Bootcamps and entrepreneurship competitions: Implement intensive training programmes in entrepreneurship during the summer, with national and European challenges and competitions that motivate young women to develop innovative projects.

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