WOMEN GET READY

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Foster greater gender equality and employability in the digital era

 WOMEN GET READY

 

The project

The aim of WOMEN GET READY project is to bridge the digital divide and empower women with a set of tailored digital resources to boost their digital readiness and increase their job opportunities, and thus take advantage of the digital transformation jobs opportunities.

The objectives are to:

  • Supporting non-digital women entering the digital world, particularly through self-expression, as first steps in the digital world often rely on self-confidence and trust in digital technologies
  • Develop self-assessment, tools that boost their self-confidence instead of weakening it
  • Challenge gender-biased stereotypes related to the digital economy and boost women’s confidence to pursue digital-related careers, by ensuring representation and participation of feminine role models, instead of the most common male experts offered as role models for the IT sector
  • Promote effective ways to address return-to-work after career breaks – which are more common and recurrent for women – both in terms of digital readiness and the tools to help them to regain equal or better job position
  • Create networking opportunities for women that enable continuous knowledge exchange within a community of users that can also be seen as role models and female experts.

 

The target group are:

Women, leaders, educational providers, and experts.

Project Outputs

The outcomes of WOMEN GET READY project are:

  1. A competences dictionary on digital readiness, comprising 11 relevant competences (and 2-level proficiency) for employees to thrive in a 21st-century labour market (1. Learnability, 2. Agility, 3. Curiosity, 4. Drive to succeed, 5. Data handling, 6. Strategic problem solving, 7. Business acumen, 8. Virtual collaboration, 9. Digital communication, 10. Mental endurance, and 11. Coaching mind-set);
  2. Two MOOCs (for an intermediate and an advanced level) covering the 11 competences set on the dictionary;
  3. A digital readiness assessment tool connected with the MOOCs content;
  4. Eight female personas avatars and a digital upskilling hub that will allow women to access and interact with all the projects’ results.

 

The extended outcomes of WOMEN GET READY project related to:

 

  • women upskilling: women involved in project’s activities will gain/develop digital readiness competences from their involvement in developing the foreseen results and participation in the WOMEN GET READY pilots;
  • organizational development: participating organisations and their staff will acquire a unique tacit knowledge on digital readiness competences and be equipped with a set of new, cutting-edge, and tailored digital learning resources; moreover, it will further develop EU project management skills and globalization awareness;
  • social and economic development: directly targeted women that are already facing a ‘triple disadvantage’ in the digital era, due to:
    • Gender-biased stereotype,
    • Gender gaps in the labour market,
    • Digital gender divide.

 

During its 36-month duration, WOMEN GET READY project will directly and indirectly positively impact:

 

 

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