The project “Orient2Work”
Evidence says that finding a job for a woman is harder than a man; for a woman with disability, sometimes impossible.
Looking at countries promoting this project, in Italy less than 50% of women works and (source 2021 Gender Report) when COVID started on 2020, employment for the first time fell to 49% against the EU average of 62.7 %. Today, the Italian gap between male and female employment is 18.2% despite of a 10.1 EU average. Female employment rate drops further for young women (33.5%) and women living in Southern Italy (32.5%). About women with disabilities, taking into account that the employment situation of all people with disabilities sees, out of 100 people aged 15-64 who are able to work, employed are only 35.8 (Source ANDEL).
Today, In France, women workers are 49%. However, women's employment conditions are less favorable than those of men (more part-time work, greater job insecurity, etc.), with a pay gap that is struggling to close around 25% less. In France, in January 2021, out of 6,501,330 jobseekers, 51% are women. Among people with disability, women are 49%. In Europe, France stands out because of a female activity rate in line with the EU average (68%) and a relatively high proportion of women working part-time (around 1/3). Terms of access to employment for women vary significantly between territories, penalized in rural areas where women's employment is concentrated in a smaller number of sectors of activity (health and social), often source of precarious jobs or affected by irregular working hours. In urban areas, social inequalities are more marked.
Women are more likely to experience periods of unemployment or even inactivity, despite a more diversified job offer.
In Spain, 84% of women with disabilities are unemployed (INE, 2021). That figure practically doubles the unemployment rate among men with disabilities. 76.41% of women with disabilities are classified as "inactive", relegating them to domestic responsibilities and family care.
In Turkey, women are 57% of person with disabilities. Some 35% of men are part of the country’s workforce compared to only 12.5% of women. Furthermore (source Engelli Kadin Dernegi), women who can get a job, despite the two-pronged prejudice against both women seeking employment and people with disabilities, are generally paid less than their male counterparts, disabled or otherwise.
Partners want to change the situation empowering instruments to overcome this gap. Among these, Orientation Activity it’s an important but underestimate tool of work which is worth to be rethought to promote employability for vulnerable people.
Project focus on how to overcome barriers and obstacles to promote inclusion of vulnerable women into labor market, granting them rights of citizens inside their communities.
To achieve this goal, Orientation is a great lever for it’s the first step in the process of finding job opportunities according to vocations and skills, strengthening training and educational paths; to reduce failures and problems related to inclusion process.
Concretely, according to priorities and topics, partners indicated these objectives:
1) Increasing number of job opportunities for vulnerable women in terms of sustainability for users and efficiency for results (number of job positions) integrating the single paths of orientation from each partner. Outputs: gathering shared best practices from partners and their countries; designing and testing a model of intervention in a handbook with a guideline and specifical indicators.
2) Realizing a platform online customized to support staffs at work to consolidate partnerships work, keep on sharing best practices and results, promoting studies and research, activating training courses.
3) Involving and directly engaging with mobilities and local activities professionals and women (beneficiaries), stakeholders. Through mass media and activities, partners will light up the project: press releases at every event in each country, through website and social media project’s results disseminated through a specific plan.
Selected horizontal priority fits projects’ objectives as Orientation is important for social inclusion and very difficult to play as evidence says. It deals with training, education, transition school/work, and even with stigma and discriminations too.
As additional priority partners need to assure quality in adult education, especially for vulnerable woman. For this reason, it will be defined a new approach, through identification of some indicators to draw common lines to manage educational/training paths in terms of social inclusion.
The handbook above mentioned, will address VET priority, with “useful tools” to realize educational/training path, personalized and tailored according to the potential of women to support.
Topics are targeted as project looks with its activities to professionals involved in career guiding, promoting employability for vulnerable women, and overcoming discriminations about gender and disabilities.
Finally, the project is GREEN: monitored carbon footprint; DIGITAL: activities run and followed online, "paper free"; SUSTAINABLE: tasks and budget strictly monitored in terms of economic and social impact with shared indicators.
NEWS
October 1st, 2023
Orient2Work officially starts its activities
October 23rd, 2023
Partners defined member of Steering Committee. The first meeting will be on line and it has been fixwd on next October 27.
October 27th 2023
First Steering Committee (SC) Meeting has been held online. Participants: Gabriele Di Bucchianico (Italy) who is the coordinator of the project, Encarnacion Barrera (Spain), Melike Çetin (Turkey) and Guylaine Traorè (France). As first act, all the partners present officially established the Steering Committee which officially began its activities today. The Italian member, as coordinator of the project, will be the coordinator of the SC and will plan the agenda of meetings and the order of business. Partners discussed and approved the new Gantt of the project as it has been postponed by the Italiana National Agency of one month. As second point all the partners agreed that the KOM (Kick Off Meeting) will be held in San Salvo on January 8/9 (arrival on January 7 - departure 10). During the following months (November and December) the lead partner (PMI) will prepare all the tools required to monitor and manage the project and the communication tools (web site first, and other things). The Steering Committeee will meet again within December 2023 to prepare the KOM and the following activities.
October 30, 2023
Linkedin discussion group of the project is open at the link below.
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9524175/
Meet our Partners
PMI SERVICES
PMI Services was born in August 2016 with the aim of providing high-level training and specialized services to private companies, public administrations, young people, and professionals who intend to retrain or expand their skills, acquiring qualifications or professional updating.
PMI Services is a training organization accredited by the Abruzzo Region and is going to be recognized as employment agency.
Furthermore, PMI, thanks to a team of highly qualified professionals, is able to provide specialized consultancy on the following issues following issues: Health, Social and No profit areas; Social Innovation; Information Technologies; Public administration; European and national funds; Quality and safety.
PMI is also a vocational school with training courses registering classes with a majority of female enrollments.
GIP FORMATION CONTINUE ET INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE DE L ACADEMIE DE CRETEIL
The GIP-FCIP of Créteil is the 1st Educational regional district in France. It represents 600 professional development paths, 20 000 adult trainees in around 180 schools per year. Its main purposes are the Implementation and development of cooperation at territorial level in the following areas ; and Adult Vocational Training and -Education and Professional - Insertion. The GIP-FCIP acts as an authority and administrative support structure for the GRETA network on its territory.
The GRETA network for the" académie de Creteil" comprises 6 GRETAS on 3 territorial departments (Seine St Denis (93),Val de Marne (94) and Seine et Marne (77).
A GRETA is a network of public schools dedicated to VET adult education. There are over 137 GRETAS all over the French Territory (over 4750 training sites).
Each territorial department has 2 GRETAS.
GMTI’s (Greta des Métiers et des Techniques Industrielles)are focused on the industrial sector and GMTE’s (Greta des Métiers et des Techniques Economiques).
Pozitif Diyalog Dernegi
Positive Dialogue Association is a non-profit non-governmental organization established in 2020 with 16 members and 26 volunteers. The aim of the association is to produce solutions to social issues that exist at local, national and international scale with community volunteers, to develop innovative ideas and create application areas for them. Especially, the association agree to work on 17 global sustainability development goals determined by the United Nations and aims to carry out activities, events and researches to make a positive contribution to the problems identified under the concept of "sustainable development" and those target audiences.
Its activities are carried in these fields: Disadvantaged groups, Youth, Art, Scientific activities.
FEDERACION PROVINCIAL DE ASOCIACIONES DE PERSONAS CON DISCAPACIDAD FISICA Y ORGANICA DE SEVILLA
The Provincial Federation of Associations of people with physical and organic disabilities in Seville (COCEMFE Seville) is a non for profit organisation and declared of public interest which was constituted in Seville on 20 June 1985. The scope of territorial action of COCEMFE Sevilla is the city of Seville and province. COCEMFE Sevilla has currently 46 associated organisations.
Among our goals, the promotion and defense of the rights of people with disabilities, the coordination of our associated organisations, the promotion of actions aimed at achieving the normalization and integration of people with some type of physical or organic disability in the society, and the improvement of the society as a mean of guarantee their quality of life.
Likewise, among our main objectives we aim to the direct attention to our entire associative network, through the different areas that provide services of: accessibility, education/training, social care, employment, legal advice, leisure and so on.
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EVENTS
January 8/9, 2024
San Salvo, Italy - Kick off meeting
September 2024
Sevilla, Spain – Training 1
February 2025
Creteil, France – Training 2
March 2025
Piloting Test in Italy and Spain
April 2025
Piloting Test in France and Turkey
June 2025
Turkey - Final Meeting
ERASMUS+ - Field Adult Education
Project:
2023-1-IT02-KA210-ADU-000151110
“Orientation Activities to support the Access of Vulnerable Women into the Labor Market”
For contacts and informations:
Pmi Services Soc. Coop. a r.l.
Via Pio IX, 27
66050 San Salvo (CH)
+39 0873.34.20.88
segreteria@pmi-services.it