EHN-European Handmakers Network

Abstract

Funding

Researchers

Abstract of the Project

According to European Commission data, women account for 29% of the total in the entrepreneur’s category, with a slight increase of 3% from 2008 to today. (Horizon2020, 2020).

These data show an underutilization of the female workforce, corroborated by statistics on the overall employment of women in Europe, equal to 67.4% in 2018 (compared to an average of 79% for the male counterpart). (Eurostat, 2020)

The “Handmaker Women Network” project is part of this theme, proposing the creation of a digital platform that allows European women handmakers to have a place where they can be followed by online mentoring in English, in order to increase their skills and turn their hobby into a micro enterprise.

This mentoring activity may concern not only women already operating in the manual work sector, but also those who want to transform their home-based craftsmanship into a working activity. In fact, many women in various regions of Europe already deal with the production of artefacts, which

contribute informally to the livelihood of the family.

In addition, women who are already successfully pursuing their entrepreneurial activity would be given the opportunity to exercise a role as trainers and to be a good example for other women, as well as to promote their activity at European level.

The project consortium aims to respond proactively to what is stated in article 23 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union regarding equality between men and women in all areas

Objectives

  • To deepen the financial training of the handmakers;
  • Provide methodological tools on starting a self-employed job;
  • Develop the communication and training skills of the mentors registered on the platform;
  • Spread the exchange of good practices, through peer-to-peer mentor-handmaker training;
  • Create a sustainable training network at European level between mentors and users.

Funding

Program Erasmus + (European Union)

Project Reference

2020-1-IT02-KA204-079128

Period

01/09/2020 to 28/02/2023

Duration

24 months + 6 extension months

Researchers

  • Bruno Lino

Partners

  • Aps Creativi108
  • WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
  • Cofac Cooperativa De Formação E Animação Cultural, CRL
  • A.F.E. Projects
  • Slaska Fundacja Wspierania Przedsiebiorczosci
  • AKMI KATARTISI EKPAIDEYSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA