Women and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is one of the 8 Key Competences meant to assure the building of the European Knowledge Based Society.
To what extent are the European citizens aware of the opportunities open to them by acquiring entrepreneurship competences?
What is to be done in order to make them willing to acquire new skills and competences when they reach a certain age? Which are the most affected categories by lack of key competences?
Our partnership is meant to answer some of these questions by studying the actual situation of women aged 45-55 who are either not satisfied with their actual job or who are unemployed.
For this we will elaborate a survey related to the complexity of this situation in all partner countries aiming at getting a panoramic view of the causes that had led these women to the position of not fully successful persons.
We will also try to find out, within this European partnership, the best ways to help them regain the self esteem and to successfully integrate on the labour market.
The results will be presented during an international conference on the theme “ Women’s Integration on the Labour Market”, a product of this partnership.