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Project Activities
The project activities include

  • Setting up an e-mail group of the project partners to ensure constant exchange and dissemination of information as well as the project decision making process

The e-mail group is an on-going activity that ensures constant exchange and dissemination of information as well as to facilitate the project management and decision making process including issues like: methodology for the overviews; description of the responsibilities of the participants; detailed plan and agendas for the site visits; list of people and organizations to be invited for the e-forum; content of the web pages; evaluation questionnaires.

  • Preparing three overviews of the different experience in training women entrepreneurs in the participating partner countries (Bulgaria, Slovakia, Turkey)

Another important activity was the preparation of three overviews on the existing practices in training women in entrepreneurship, prepared by the three partners for their countries. The overviews in English and each national language could be found on the websites. The Slovak overview is focused mainly on the mentoring practice, while the Bulgarian and Turkish analyze the existing experience in training women in entrepreneurship in the two countries and whether mentoring can be implemented there as training approach. The Bulgarian overview also incorporates a report on a small inquiry with women entrepreneurs, conducted within the project, which presents the opinion of the respondents on their attitude and willingness to participate in mentoring programs.

More about the overviews

  • Launching an e-forum as a communication, motivation and learning tool in mentoring for women entrepreneurs

The forum is intended as a communication, motivation and learning tool in mentoring for women entrepreneurs. It is a media for exchange of experience and comments on the topic of female entrepreneurship and mentoring as a training approach. The gathered opinions are given by women from the three partner organisations, who answered the question: Do you think that business women are willing to share their experience and knowledge with other women? Why?

Women's opinions can be found at the page for the forum.

On the 13 May 2006 in Bratislava was held the project meeting of the three partners. The aim was to present to the partners from Turkey and Bulgaria the activities of the Top Center Podnikateliek – TCP (Top Center of Business Women an association of business women in close relations with CWSP Association – Bratislava) and focus on its experience in mentoring for women entrepreneurs. During the visit the staff and learners met mentors and mentees of TCP from Bratislava and the nearby town of Pezanok, exchanged experience and discussed different approaches for motivating and training women as mentors and mentees as well as the pros and cons of mentoring as a training approach. The partners from Bulgaria and Turkey had the opportunity to see the achievements of these women and listen to their success stories. 

More about the site visit in Bratislava. 

  • Creating three web pages on each partner’s website about the project

The main project page in Bulgarian and English is hosted at the project manager’s website www.cwsp.bg. The partners from Slovakia and Turkey develop a separate page on their websites in the national language about the project and all three pages are linked. Apart from general information about the project and its activities the pages include the translations of the overviews with the good practices log and other resources in mentoring for women entrepreneursThe page of CWSP, Bratislava for the project is hosted by the partner organization involved as trainer in the project Top Center Podnikateliek (TCP).

The purpose of the roundtables is to present the project results and the good experience of Slovakia to the local community and initiate a discussion on the specific topic of mentoring for women entrepreneurs as a way to encourage their participation in the economic life.

 

The Ankara Roundtable took place on the 10 June 2006 at the Community Center of the Contemporary Woman and Youth Foundation - involved in the project by the Turkish partners KA-DER as a learner organization. The event was attended by women entrepreneurs from disadvantaged groups. The Foundation works in one of the biggest and poorest districts of Ankara, called Mamak, providing different services to its target group, connected mainly with overcoming illiteracy, education and vocational training, support in job search and in business start up. The discussion was focused on the achievements and the obstacles faced by women entrepreneurs from disadvantaged groups, who were trained at the Community Center under a Matra financed project. The guests visited several businesses, established by the women trainees with the support of the Association established to the Contemporary Woman and Youth Foundation in order to assist the start up of women’s businesses. Already there are several small businesses established, mainly in the sector of services, which allow those women to overcome poverty, unemployment and social exclusion.

More about the Ankara Roundtable.

 

At the Sofia Roundtable held on 24 June 2006 the partners from Turkey and Slovakia and the participants from Bulgaria were presented with the results from an enquiry focused on women entrepreneurs. The respondents shared their opinions about the development of women’s entrepreneurship, the problems they face as well as the necessity of mentoring as a learning tool to increase their knowledge and skills in managing their businesses. The roundtable was attended by the learner organisation involved in the project - the Bulgarian Association of Regional Development Agencies (BARDA), representatives of different business women associations, other partner NGOs working in the field, researchers of the issue. The guests visited a shop for handicrafts products, established as an opportunity for women entrepreneurs to sell their products. The shop called Ten Senses is currently run by Integra Association, involved in training women in entrepreneurial skills, who had implemented a joint project on that with CWSP, Sofia (more). As a result were established several business women clubs with the most active one in Sofia, which embraced the idea of Fair Trade and started the shop in 2005.

More about the Sofia Roundtable.

 

These events were the closing activities of the project.

 

 

 

This page has been developed under the project Learning Partnerships against Social Exclusion: Mentoring for Women Entrepreneurs, financed by the Socrates/ Grundtvig 2 Program.

 

The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of the Center of Women’s Studies and Policies and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Commission or the Socrates National Agency.


 
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Projects 2005
Project "Gender Mainstreaming in public policies and programs"
Project "Project: Learning Partnerships against Social Exclusion: Mentoring for Women Entrepreneurs"
Round table: Participation of Women in Politics and Decision Making
Contents
The project activities include
Overviews on training experiences for women entrepreneurs
E-forum
Site visit to Top Center in Bratislava
Roundtable in Sofia
Roundtable in Ankara
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