Erasmus+ Mentorship Club for Young Women - encourage young women to take control of their career

Call for Partners

Project type
Erasmus+ KA2 Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

PROJECT NAME

Erasmus+ Mentorship Club for Young Women - encourage young women to take control of their career

GOAL

We want to empower young women (unemployed or disadvantaged in any other way), ages up to 35., to take responsibility for their career, by engaging in business world.

THE MAIN IDEA of PROJECT

Mentorship Club is a program with the goal is to connect young women that are looking for guidance into the business world with more experienced business women able to provide said guidance. Typically, Mentor-mentee relationships involve pairing of younger persons with more experienced ones, where mentors encourage mentees to take responsibility for their own personal development and career.
The main idea of the project is to empower young women (unemployed or disadvantaged in any other way), ages up to 35., to actively engage in the business world in some of the most influential areas, through the creation of local mentorship clubs.
Our project is offering young women an opportunity to use mentors from Mentorship Club for job shadowing and to exchange good practice, acquire skills and knowledge and/or to build long-term partnerships through participative observation.

With the main focus being on the talent discovery, building capacity, skills and maintaining a two-way learning process

By the end of this project each partner organization will be capable of creating and sustaining a mentorship club for young women within their local community.
This project will include following topics:

Relationship building and empowerment
Mentee goal assessment and prioritising
Time management
Planning techniques
Personal capacity building
Professional skills development
Interactive knowledge transfer

Main activities of this ERASMUS+ long-term project are:

Local research related to the topic in all of the partner organization countries. – 60 days

Each partner will analyze the situation on local level related to the unemployment status of young women , ages up to 35. Results will be acquired from comparing data gained from the institutions and the public research. With this we will get the image of the real situation that the young women from our target group are facing with.

Also, they will target potential mentors, taking into consideration female professionals in several significant areas.

The results of the research will be presented on our next activity.

Contact making event – 8 days

This activity will be held in one of the program countries.
The aim of this activity is for partners to get to know each other better.
Presenting and comparing results of the research.
Presenting and discussing potential mentor candidates for each partner country.
Evaluate the real unemployment situation in each country.
Collaborating on new ideas for future projects and developing the partnership further.
The summary of the analysis and the discussion will produce targeted activities for the training sessions.

Training course – 9 days, Novi Sad, Serbia

During these 9 days the participants will, through non-formal education, be introduced to different topics related to mentorship programme and the general mentoring concept. The events will consist of different workshops where the participants will learn important tips and tricks on creating and sustaining a successful local mentorship club for young women (unemployed or disadvantaged in any other way), ages up to 35.

By the end of this project each partner organization will be capable of creating and sustaining a mentorship club for young women within their local community.
Applying acquired skills locally by creating the mentorship clubs – 60 days

After training course participants from each organization (youth workers/ youth leaders) will create local mentorship clubs by contacting at least 5 female professionals in significant areas, who will be mentors to at least 2 young women from our target group, for job shadowing and other activities that will help them exchange good practice, acquire skills and knowledge and/or to build long-term partnerships through participative observation.

Evaluation meeting – 5 days – one of the program countries

During this meeting we will evaluate all project activities (local research, contact making, training course and local workshops) and compare expected results with accomplished outcomes, together with all partner organizations.

OBJECTIVES

To provide info to our participants about mentorship process.
To motivate young women to generate business ideas.
To teach them how to develop their business skills further.
To train and educate participants to transfer mentorship and soft skills to the target group.
To raise awareness about mentorship possibilities for unemployed young women (unemployed or disadvantaged in any other way), ages up to 35.
To use Erasmus+ Programme as a tool for increasing active participation of unemployed young people.

TARGET GROUP

In this project we are inviting NGO activists, youth workers young leaders, and all other that are working with young women (unemployed or disadvantaged in any other way), ages up to 35.

EXPECTED RESULTS

We expect this project will result in all of the partner organizations completely qualified and capable to independently organize local mentorship clubs for young women within their local community.

This knowledge transfer will directly affect at least 10 young women per partner country, who will participate as mentees in mentorship clubs organised by each partner organization.
Indirectly, we expect to reach over 75000 young people through different means of online promotion, including website, and social media platforms.

PRODUCT/S

The expected products of this project are:
- At least 1 mentorship club for young women per partner country
- One mentorship guide created during the activities
- At least 1 functional website
- 5 promotional videos created from the clips of the events

PROFILE OF PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

We are looking for partner (youth) organizations whose activities are related to women youth work and topic of unemployment amongst young people.
Organizations must be established in Erasmus+ Program countries and Other Partner Countries from Regions 5 to 14 (check in Erasmus+ Programme guide pages 22, 23 and 24).

If you are interested to become partner organization in our project please send to us: Filled partnership identification form – like word document (.doc) on E-mail: ns.zenska.inicijativa@gmail.com

Deadline for receiving partnership identification form is: 12 January 2019.

Only selected partner organization will be contacted and asked for additional information!

WHO WE ARE

The Women's Initiative of Novi Sad was established for the first time in May 2010 as an informal group made up of students who were socially active at the time and worked through various youth, civic and student organizations, as well as through student and youth representative bodies. The founders and members gathered within the framework of the National Theater Institute in order to initiate and actively participate in the cultural, social, civic and political transformation of the Serbian society as a whole.

The main objectives of the organization are :
✅ Active work in the field of raising the level of civic awareness
✅ Encouraging women to actively participate in society
✅ Developing women's cooperation and providing conditions for participation in decision-making through a sustainable institutional framework, based on the needs of women and in partnership with women
✅ Providing healthy living and social conditions for the upbringing and upbringing of children
✅ Developing a system of informing women at all levels and in all areas
✅ Ensuring the exercise of the right to equal opportunities for all women in society, in particular women living in harsh conditions and particularly vulnerable women
✅ Improving the living conditions of vulnerable social groups
✅ Encouraging and evaluating the exceptional manifestations and achievements of women and children in different areas
✅ Improving opportunities for quality leisure time for women and children
✅ Preservation of traditional values, old crafts, homemade craftsmanship and hand crafts
✅ Developing, promoting, encouraging and stimulating employment of women, self-employment of women and women's entrepreneurship
✅ Improving conditions for the safe life of women and children
✅ Preservation and promotion of the health of women and children, reduction of risks and leading health disorders and development of health care tailored to women and children
✅ Empowering women for initiatives and activities that are in line with the basic goals of sustainable development and a healthy environment
✅ Advocacy for the protection of basic rights and freedoms in order to improve the standard of living and quality of life
✅ Advocacy for the protection of nature and a healthy environment
✅ Activities aimed at nurturing, developing and protecting the family as the basic cells of society

More info you can find on our website www.zenskainicijativa.rs