About the Project

“Fostering Entrepreneurial Mindset in Migrants through Education” (FEMME) aim is to develop the entrepreneurial mindset and related hard/soft skills in first and second generation female youth migrants aged 18-25 potential entrepreneurs.

Target groups:

– First and second generation youth female migrants aged 18-25 from partner countries suffering from socioeconomic marginalization, interested and motivated in becoming entrepreneurs, kick-starting and developing their entrepreneurial ideas,

– Youth workers from partners, interested in acquiring instruments of entrepreneurial support to youth female migrants,

– The wider audience of disadvantaged migrant female youths in partner countries and Europe as well as the youth operators and organizations who work with the foregoing target either specifically or as a subset of the wider youth population.

The project aims at addressing the challenges identified above by means of providing young female migrants in possession of entrepreneurial motivation with the attitudes and skills needed to start-up and grow their own start-ups.

FEMME reached this aim through the following:

 – Research for the identification of the training needs of female youth migrant entrepreneurs and their connection with the existing educational offer, carried out by a combination of desk research and surveying.

 – Guide for female migrant entrepreneurs integrating methodologies of self-learning supporting them in giving shape to and developing their entrepreneurial ideas. The Guide was tested and reviewed in a specific educational mobility with female migrant prospective entrepreneurs. A following local session of Piloting allowed participants to further test the Guide as a tool of concrete orientation in the establishment and development of their own businesses.

– Training Toolkit for Trainers. The Toolkit integrated guidelines and methods of NFE tailored to the needs of youth workers willing to implement educational programmes to empower prospective female migrant entrepreneurs.

– Online modules and Web Platform. Partners produced the present Web Platform with integrated e-learning modules in multiple languages targeted at an audience of female youth migrants prospective entrepreneurs in Europe. The modules provide the target with useful information and exercises supporting them in the design and development of their own entrepreneurial ideas.