Diversity

ELYME

10 April 2019    By Eric Wijmenga

ELYME - Entrepreneurial Labs for Young Migrants Across Europe Research has found that migrant entrepreneurship has become one of the driving forces of the growth of national economies, with a direct impact on employment creation and innovation (OECD, 2010, Desiderio, 2014). In that scenario, immigrant…

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FemTalks Forum

4 April 2019    By Eric Wijmenga

The FemTalks Forum project is designed to help female migrants to integrate into their host community through the development of a blended learning programme that incorporates a variety of training methodologies. The main aims of the project are to support migrant women by increasing their…

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Kaleidoscope

3 January 2018    By Eric Wijmenga

The objective of the Kaleidoscope project is to facilitate entrepreneurship among migrant women living in the EU.  Currently migrants and especially migrant women are much more likely to be unemployed or under-employed compared with EU citizens. The training model the Kaleidoscope project provides concentrates on…

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Advancing Migrant Women

15 December 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The Advancing Migrant Women project aims to develop high quality training material and support for migrant women. Through a holistic programme based on training and mentoring, they will increase their employability and entrepreneurship skills, build their self-efficacy and hereby feel empowered to break through the…

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Weight Matters

14 December 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Across the UK an average of 1 in 4 adults are obese and more are overweight. Being obese or overweight is associated with a number of health problems including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.  It is estimated that obesity is the fourth largest risk factor contributing to deaths in…

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Women in Power

4 December 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Women in Power is a European project that aims to promote professional leadership and the empowerment of women. Funded by the European Commission and with partners in Spain, Romania, Lithuania, Malta and the UK; this project aims to support gender-balanced corporate boardrooms by giving women…

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InterMed

23 November 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

The aim of the Intercultural Mediation for Managers project is to develop a training programme for helping managers mediate in an intercultural context. The project aims at helping both migrants and the managers employing them to deal with cultural differences occurring at the workplace. To…

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SMS: Social Media = Social Capital

23 November 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Project title: 'Social Media = Social Capital. Building Social Capital & Inclusion for Female Migrants through Social Media' Overall Aims: To develop an innovative learning methodology where learners engage in Social Media training modules, followed by Mentoring Circles™️ sessions. Target group: SMS is expected to…

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Fake It Till You Make It

21 November 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Project objectives 'Fake It Till You Make It' theatre project aims at providing participants with soft skills for social inclusion and employability with an intersectional approach. Partnership We'll adapt and bring together Norrbottensteatern (SE) and L'Albero (IT) theatre methodologies, complemented by APEM (ES) employability expertise as well as Materahub (IT) and Inova…

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GenderIT

17 August 2017    By Eric Wijmenga

Fostering gender-mainstreaming in VET for the ICT sector. The Gender-IT project aims identify and contribute to gender-mainstreaming in Vocational and Educational Training (VET) practices in the ICT sector. Its specific objective is to build a sustainable multistakeholder network at a European level which will actively…

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