WEMIN

_ Description

The WEMIN project (Migrant Women Empowerment and Integration) aims to implement and promote a comprehensive integration model for migrant/refugee women (MRW). Through direct interventions in women populations and through experience-sharing among partners social, cultural, educational and professional aspects of inclusion will be addressed and active participation will be achieved. The project’s expected outcomes are to:

• Prepare social inclusion through cultural awareness (including the acquisition of linguistic skills)
• Empower MRW through information on the educational system and the position of women in the host societies, and on available support structures
• Facilitate active participation of MRW through mentoring on opportunities in education, volunteerism, and work
• Promote peer learning among MRW and institutions through an online platform
• Promote direct interaction and sociocultural exchange with the local society through common activities, thus challenging stereotypes
• Transfer good practices within the partnership countries
• Disseminate good practices in MRW integration both inside and outside the partnership countries

The long term impact envisaged is to empower MRW women to participate actively and competently in the host societies’ sociocultural life, while large numbers of stakeholders will gain access to relevant tools and practices, within and outside the partnership countries, thus enhancing capacity building.

The action’s immediate beneficiaries will be the direct participants in the project’s activities. In medium and long term, benefits will extend to their families and immediate circles, as they are expected to be supported and empowered in turn. Institutions involved in peer learning and dissemination activities will benefit from experience-sharing. All local communities where the project’s activities will be implemented will benefit from increased social cohesion and more active participation of their vulnerable yet resourceful members.

_ Outcomes

Online Community & Learning Platforms

www.wemin-project.eu