NEED TO CONNECT
Goals
- To raise awareness about the situations of young mothers as research has shown they are at more risk at experiencing loneliness, and isolation.
- To develop training material and curriculum to be used to help women, and to build a communication and training platform for the mothers in each country.
- To develop a way to empower women so they have more control of their future and lives.
- To develop a teaching material that can be used by other organizations and countries for this purpose.
- To develop a platform for mothers that they themselves have control over and can use to further the ideas, the network and reach more mothers in the same place as they were.
Activities
- Working on intellectual outputs.
- 3 transnational project meetings.
- 7 multiplicative events
- Training activity.
- Result dissemination.
Results
- Need analysis by conducting desktop research, questionnaires, and surveys.
- Preparation of curriculum, training program and open educational resources.
- Need to Connect platform and NTC community and training platform consisting of data base/collection in English and partner languages (general information on the NTC project in English, presenting partners, project results).
Impact
- Provide participating organizations, target groups and stakeholders with comparative information on the current situation and best practices related to young mothers.
- Acquisition of new skills and competences in the field of creative arts and empowerment of young women.
- Raise awareness among policy makers on how they can benefit and perhaps adapt project results in their efforts to empower and support young mothers.
Partners
- Einurð (Iceland, coordinator)
- EC Geoss
- CESIE (Italy)
- HAPPINESS ACADEMY LTD. (Bulgaria)
- Stichting Dutch foundation of innovation welfare 2 work (Netherlands)
- Consultoría de Innovación Social (Spain)
- Vilniaus universitetas (Lithuania)
Project duration is between 1. 11. 2020 and 1. 11. 2023. Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.