Digital Empow(H)eR

A guidance approach to encourage adult women’s lifelong learning, skills
development and resilience to access opportunities and succeed in the
labour market.

PROJECT’S START DATE: 04/12/2022
PROJECT’S END DATE: 03/12/2024

TOTAL BUDGET: 250.000,00 €

WEBSITE: Coming soon

Description

Digital Empow(H)er connects the issues concerning the structural weaker position of women
within the labour market such as low mobility, lower paid, and care duties rights with the
increasing digital upskilling requirement to access opportunities. Digital Empow(H)er equips adult
women, guidance practitioners, and their organisations with the necessary tools and
competences to develop creative and innovative solutions to face the challenges that the 21st
century poses.

Background

This project presents a new, transnational contribution to the debate for the structural challenges that women undergo within the labour market – access to employment, gender gap in the career processes, influence of social and family factors within their inclusion and paths across work, family, and personal lives, etc.

At the same time, labour market dynamics linked to remote working and digital competence requirements are particularly challenging for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and low-skilled job seekers. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this situation, making therefore extremely urgent to improve guidance services to empower women to reach their full potential, participate in the labourmarket and gain access to more career opportunities.

Objectives

The project objectives emphasise career guidance as a core part of the support service, providing
users with the opportunity to identify their own innate abilities. The goal of individual career
guidance is to discover and develop educational, vocational, and employment potential, to equip
individuals to have a clearer understanding of themselves and potential for future career
development and to direct individuals towards training and employment opportunities in the
environment that best fulfil their needs and aspirations.
With that in mind, this project seeks to improve the quality and relevance of the guidance sector
and directly address the needs of guidance practitioners 1) enhancing the capability to empower
women to develop confidence on their self-perceived competences, to embrace learning
opportunities and help them reach their full potential within the labour market, especially in the
new normal current circumstances, consequence of Covid19 pandemic and 2) encouraging digital
upskilling training to enhance access and full use of the digital resources, offered within an
evolving society and modern labour market.