The AWARE project aims at creating a common approach to reduce labour market barriers and enhance women’s employability in the agri-food sector through the creation of personalised learning and employment paths, customised counselling and coaching services, and safe workplaces, based on the collaboration of a multi-stakeholder partnership including employment actors.

More specifically the project activities, implemented in Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Spain and Germany aim to:

1. identify LTU (long-term unemployed) women’s needs, engaging local communities and improving collaboration between employment actors
2. modernise the current training offer and existing services for employment guidance by upscaling the RSI (Rural Social Innovation) model through a gender- sensitive, personalised approach
3. increase employability of LTU women within agri-food businesses while fostering community bonds between employment actors, monitored by regular coaching sessions.
4. ensure high-quality standards for effective project progress and impact achieved through a clear quality control method and analysis of lessons learned for future planning
5. raise awareness on the need to adopt gender-sensitive measures to re-integrate LTU women into the labour market and foster exploitation of AWARE innovative approach.

AWARE at a glance

• Mapping disadvantaged women’s skills needs and improving connections with local communities and employers in the agri-food sector
• Career & Employment Day events involving 160 participants, including the future employees involved in the AWARE training course and the employment providers
• Development and delivery of one-to-one counselling services and of the AWARE training course for 80 LTU women from vulnerable backgrounds
• Tailored 6-months subsidized employment within the agri-food businesses for the 80 LTU women, and coaching sessions with the employed women and the agri-food businesses
• Gender-sensitive Working Environment roundtables gathering employment providers, unemployed women, representatives of PES/local job centres, and gender experts
• Local events targeting 120 relevant stakeholders, including representatives of the InnovAgroWoMed project, SMEs and other participants, employment providers, VET Institutions, LTU women. other local Institutions, key members of the communities and the general public
• Final conference targeting 60 relevant stakeholders, including representatives of partner organisations, employment providers, local enterprises, PES, and job centres.