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🇩🇰Denmark Connect4 organisation coordinated                           and implemented innovative project through                                       the ERASMUS+ Programme                                                                  in the collaboration with organisations from: 

🇵🇹Portugal Rightchallenge – Associação 

🇧🇪Belgium LACONSEIL 

🇱🇹Lithuania ASOCIACIJA AKTYVISTAI 

🇪🇸Spain Gestión Estratégica e Innovación SL 

🇬🇷Greece INNOVATION HIVE  

🇨🇾 Cyprus Wisefour Innovation and Development Organisation

The "EMPOWER – Business Oriented Young Women: How to Support and Empower their Entrepreneurial Competences" project aims to promote and reboot young women entrepreneurship against unemployment, entry barriers of the sector through the digital training of people in entrepreneurial skills and exchange of good practices.

The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems, affecting more and more the entrepreneurship field. The pandemic has hit women particularly hard in several aspects, and women's participation in the labor market is no exception. The European Commission recognises that women entrepreneurship in general, and especially that of young women, and small businesses are a key source of jobs, business dynamism and innovation, so that promoting young women entrepreneurship has been identified as a clear objective for the development and improvement of the European economy. 

EMPOWER'S OBJECTIVES

EMPOWER project aims to address the following needs:

1. Lack/Low entrepreneurial and IT competences, especially in Social enterprises field;
2. Smaller and less effective entrepreneurial networks and policy frameworks that discourage women's entrepreneurship;
3. Low self-esteem/lack of confidence of the target group especially due to gender inequalities;
4. Lack of role models of female entrepreneurship;
5. Poor access to financial support in raising initial capital for business start-up. 

The synergies between the activities of the "EMPOWER" project and the priorities: "A Europe fit for the digital age" as well as "An economy that works for people" set by the EU Commission are already aligned. In addition, it is in line with initiatives already implemented in the Erasmus+ project such as "Inclusion and diversity in all fields of education, training", "Addressing digital transformation through development of digital readiness, resilience and capacity" and "Common values, civic engagement and participation".

EMPOWER is a project carried out by a consortium of five seven across Europe. 

EMPOWER brings together a community of women including teachers, trainers and researchers. 

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