WOW-e: Women's Opportunities for Work and Education

There is an urgent need to address low-skilled migrant women´s challenges to access education and labor market. The participating countries share common challenges: migrant women are more often outside of workforce or in precarious jobs compared to migrant men, and host country nationals.

The project tackles challenges that migrant women are facing across the Europe to access education and labor market. These are among other insufficient skills recognition processes and tools, lack of social networks, challenges combining work and family life, and insufficient worklife capabilities.

The population is ageing, and the European labor market needs urgently new workers in many fields. The WOW-e project invites employers in closed collaboration to find new solutions to recruit migrant women and build-up more diverse working environments.

🎯 Objective

The overall aim of the WOW-E-project is to increase low-skilled migrant women´s capabilities and opportunities to access education and labor market.

The objective will be reached by skills assessment and capacity building of migrant women, and in collaboration with employers by providing them possibilities to find new solutions to recruit migrant women and invest in more diverse and non-discriminatory working envinronments.

💯 Impact

On national and international level, the long-term impact is increased awareness of importance of needs-based services for migrant women to ensure their and entrance in education and employment.

The project was carried out from February 1, 2022, to October 31, 2024, with ERASMUS+ funding as part of the 2021–2027 programme period.