Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism (Q4299162)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism |
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489,425.56 Euro
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531,984.3 Euro
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92.0 percent
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26 June 2021
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25 June 2023
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Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs
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40°11'55.72"N, 44°29'33.65"E
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43°11'57.84"N, 27°55'1.60"E
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41°42'49.43"N, 44°45'26.82"E
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40°38'15.68"N, 22°56'6.22"E
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41°4'49.91"N, 29°0'37.84"E
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Women entrepreneurship is an emerging sector in the global business environment, a real driving force in today’s modern economy. They shape and redefine the workplace, business networks, financial institutions and culture, but in the Black Sea Region represents an unexploited potential. Only 32% of the entrepreneurs are women and opportunities are wasted at a time when sustainable economic growth figures high on the agenda of all governments in Europe. In fact, one of the main responsibilities of the European Union is the sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms. In general, entrepreneurship is seen as a key driver for economic success, but few coordinated initiatives are target towards women. Research shows that tourism has become one of the main income generators in both developed and developing countries, with business volumes that equal or surpass oil exports, food products or the car industry. Travel and tourism have been proven to provide women with more opportunities for empowerment compared to other industries, giving the sector increased responsibility for the advancement of women. The countries around the Black Sea are using very different policy instruments and projects in order to increase the number of women entrepreneurs. Few countries have adopted a clear policy to encourage and facilitate women to start their own business or to become more ambitious. Generally, women are under-represented in high growth sectors and they have fewer employees than men. The proposed project, entitled WE TOUR – “Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism”, is closely related to the common challenges of the programme area. The project’s overall objective is the creation of a Cross-Border Business Network in the Black Sea Basin Area for the Promotion of Women’s Entrepreneurship, Life-long Cooperation, Training and networking. Also, the project aims at strengthening, supporting and developing female entrepreneurship through tourism, providing new economic and social opportunities to women in the Black Sea Basin area. WE TOUR project is going to create a strong partnership in the field of women entrepreneurship, not only between the participating organizations but also among the countries that they represent. Also, our project’s main tasks are the promotion of gender equality in cooperation with civil-society organizations and public authorities and the transfer of knowledge through the organization of workshops connected to the proposal’s aim. The Lead Applicant and its Partners will carry out mainly similar activities in all the countries participating in the project having a cross border impact. The cross-border cooperation is crucial because it will provide women with best practices and successful policies already implemented in the area in order to bring them closer to entrepreneurship and employment. (English)
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