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Ongoing projects
Smart Women
period: December 2016 - December 2018
source of funding: Erasmus+ KA 2 Strategic
Partnerships
coordinator: Malta Communications Authority
website: http://smartwomenproject.eu
The Smart Women project aims to provide project
participants with the digital skills they need to innovate
in the digital world. The design of the methodology
ensures that participants will be up to date with current
developments, by training entrepreneurial women to use
the tools they need to bring their businesses online.
Self-employment provides a means of increasing the number
of women that are active in the economy by offering the
flexibility women need when trying to combine work with
domestic commitments; entrepreneurship is a pre-requisite
for successful self-employment. Increasingly e-commerce
provides a way to start a new business; customers usually
find businesses by first searching for services online.
Offering online services can help businesses reach more
customers and can also help business to sell internationally.
In the framework of the Smart Women project, seven partners
from European countries have created an innovative
European Training Model, focused on women, aiming at
encouraging entrepreneurship and putting business ideas
into practice. The Smart Women Model combines learning
using online learning platforms and face to face training
based on project collaboration, peer-learning, guidance,
coaching and counselling.
In 2017, the project kicked off with the first meeting taking
place in Malta. Project partners also met in Cyprus and in
Tudela, Spain, where they had the chance to meet with the
mayor of Tudela and were featured in the Navarra media.
The training model was developed and a project website
has been created. The project pilot will take place in the
first half of 2018.