Project Consortium
What is the
FEMPOWER Project?
The key objective of the FEMPOWER – Female Empowerment: Leaders of the Future project is to develop and reinforce female leadership skills and empower young women within the innovative work-based learning environment of the Practice Enterprise. The secondary objective is to implement elements into the programme to address gender stereotype expectations and raise awareness of gender-based discrimination in the labour market.
The consortium has jointly developed a Female Leadership and Empowerment Mini-Course Programme through which young participants, especially female trainees, are more likely to emerge as leaders and understand the realities of the labour market and better adapt to new trends in the recruitment process.
What are the
Experiences?
Anna ZalesakGeneral Manager & Co-owner
mRaP GmbH, helloCash Registrierkasse, Austria “It is important to be aware of the environment you are in and what you are choosing, for example, researching the employer prior and then asking the right questions. As an employer, I find it incredibly impressive when young women apply and ask: What is it like at your place? How’s the climate in your company? Then I realise they are really interested.”
Adelė StonienėLecturer, Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences, Head of Practice Enterprise, Lithuania “I have been working as a lecturer in a PE for almost 20 years, and I can confidently say that these were the years of my growth as a person. While working with sessional students, I noticed that during the internship, students who are raising their children and do not have entrepreneurial skills, are very happy to practice in a PE and thank the College for the opportunity to study such a subject, where they can acquire entrepreneurship, creativity, document management and leadership competencies.”
Clàudia RomagosaPractice Enterprise Trainee from SEFED El Vendrell, Spain “From the professional point of view, I have created new expectations for me and I have imagined goals that I didn’t have before. […] I aspire to be a boss or manager… to lead a department.”