WominCreativePower
WICP – Women, Innovation, Creativity, Power – is a project designed to support the full integration of migrant and refugee women into their host communities by nurturing their entrepreneurial potential in the creative industries. Through tailored training, mentorship, and networking opportunities, WICP invests in the development of practical skills and confidence needed for women to launch creative ventures. The project not only strengthens individual empowerment but also encourages community-level transformation by enabling participants to become role models and active contributors to society.
Location
Coordinated through Luxembourg
Duration
24 months
Funding
KA2 Strategic Partnerships, Erasmus+ Programme, Luxembourgish National Agency – Anefore
Outcomes & Impact
IO1: Research on Marketable Skills and Integration Needs
The project’s consortium has conducted an analytical effort to assess the needs and gaps in marketable skills of migrant and refugee women in partner countries, particularly in the creative sector and entrepreneurship. The research has evaluated which elements should be integrated into the project’s modalities to improve the target group’s professional qualification and promote their integration in their local communities. The project has involved the target group, experts, and professionals working in migrant and refugee integration and has shed light on the EU legal framework around integration measures. The data gathered has been utilized to produce national reports and a comprehensive report highlighting common and specific aspects among different countries, best practices and initiatives, and existing entrepreneurial learning opportunities. The final report is available in English and Arabic, aiming to expand the outreach and number of beneficiaries of the project’s outcomes. The research will have a long-term and sustainable impact, supporting integration measures and initiatives within the creative sector to promote employability, inclusion, and gender equality.
IO2: Mentorship Program for Entrepreneurial Skills Development
The intellectual output has aimed to enhance the economic integration of migrant and refugee women into their host communities through engagement in creative businesses and social entrepreneurship. The partnership has developed a mentorship program to improve the entrepreneurial skills of migrant and refugee women within the creative field. The program has been based on a cooperative peer-to-peer assessment and co-design involving migrant and refugee women and entrepreneur women as peers. The mentorship program has provided orientation on the legal framework and information on self-employment/entrepreneurship initiatives. The partnership has encouraged the participation of migrant and refugee women, as well as local women engaged in the creative sector, to promote knowledge exchange and interactive dialogue. The ultimate goal has been to support the social and economic integration of migrant and refugee women through social entrepreneurship/self-employment initiatives and collaboration in the Creative and Cultural Industries.
IO3: Tandem Training Program to Promote Social and Economic Integration
This Intellectual Output has aimed to deepen the social integration of migrant and refugee women by promoting their contact and cooperative interaction with local women and furthering their professional skills to facilitate their economic integration into the receiving labor markets. The partnership has developed a tandem training program that includes creative skills training, peer-to-peer exchange of skills, socio-cultural and linguistic orientation. The program aims to enable women to exercise their skills and become more integrated in their settled communities through engagement in creative businesses. It also seeks to explore the potential of migrant and refugee women to promote dialogue between their cultures and that of their host countries by connecting them with artisans, art students, and designers of handicrafts in their receiving communities. The training materials have been developed in a form that is possible to be implemented physically and digitally, and they will be available online in English and Arabic to widen the range of beneficiaries of the project’s outcomes.
IO4: Media Platform and Board Game for Sustainable Impact
The partnership has made efforts throughout the project’s implementation to collect video and audio recordings to share experiences and information with migrant and refugee women, aimed at supporting their integration to European societies and promoting a sense of identification and belonging. These recordings are available on an online platform and will prompt sustainable endurance of the project’s positive effects on target groups and European societies. Additionally, the partnership has developed a board game focused on collaborative problem solving, aimed at equipping beneficiaries with tools of multiplication and dissemination. Direct beneficiaries have been introduced to the game during the project’s final events, and have the potential to continue fostering the positive benefits of the project after its completion.
WomInCreativePower project – Initial findings
WorseninCreative Power is a 2 year project founded in frames of the Erasmus programme – Luxembourg ish NA Anetore. It seeks to acidress gaps in the integration process of migrant and refuges women, seekin g to improve their employability and establish and strengthen ties with their new communities. WICP aiso cims to contribute to the development of new design and creotive skills through tandem troinings and int ercultural dialogue. The project deploys the notions of inclusivity, diversity, and collaboration in Creative a nd Cultural industries (CCI) by encouraging immigrants to develop their creative ideos into work, inclusio n and selt-fulfilment possibilities. Therefore, WICP seeks to make an important contribution to the füll inte gration of migrant and refugee women in their receiving communities and labour markets by promoting he intercultural and diverse enrichment of European societies.
The partner orgonisations involved in the project are from tuxembourg (FSt), Sweden (Swideas), Hungary (Foundation of Subjective velves) and Siovenia (Povod, Institute for Culture and Development of internati onal Relations in Culturo] therefore ail the dato mentioned in the post is about those 4 countries and the migrant women living there.
integration Process of Migrant Women in Europe
in the past years the number of refugees and migronts in furope hos started to decrease, However, the in tegration of those who have arrived in the EU since 2015 remains a common chollenge for the host Europe an communities. According to an articie published by the European Website on integration migrant and r efugee women tace a double disadvantage in the integration process, since they lace the double burden of being both women and migrants (Ewst 2018). Moreover, it has been proven statistically that migrant an d refuge women face greater economic inequalitios compared to their male counterparts: bigger gende r gaps in the EU-28 employment rates were observed among persons born outside of the EU, amounting t 6 74.3% lor men and 55.3% for women (Ewsi 2018), rincily, studies indicate that women “trequently receive less integration support than men, both in terms of language training and active labour market measure S* (Ewsi 2018).
Our Partners
FSLux
Swideas
Szubjektív Értékek Alapítvány
Povod
Anefore
Erasmus+