Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Programme 2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2023-07-07

Description

Description (EN):

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.

Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/

Expected Results (EN): R 1.1 Strength of cross-border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors

Expected Outputs (EN):

Expected results: The project main results are the following: 1. Built capacity in female entrepreneurship in tourism sector through development and organization of trainings and programs in tourism sector entrepreneurship, business management and digital marketing. At least 500 women, youth professionals and women entrepreneurs, will be trained how effectively to manage and growth their business, how to get involved with tourism and get aware of tourism local plans and policies. On the other side the entrepreneurship in tourism will be promoted as a tool for self-employment and future career development. 2. Increase the excgange of experience between relevant stakeholders, throught the establishment of “WE TOUR” portal. The new regional business network will create a global network for knowledge sharing. Through the “WE TOUR” portal the stakeholders will exchange national policy information on women entrepreneurs as well as valuable contact for cross-border visits and cooperation, best practices, business management support. The portal will support the future joint efforts for discussing and developing working methods and tools in few of improving the support of women’s entrepreneurship nationally. 3. Improve the role of women and support female entrepreneurship in the BSB area, throught the development of an awareness raising campaign. More than 5.000 people will be informed about the project. 4. Bost women confidence and their business skilss by establishing a strong network and o long term partnership between women support organizations, business organizations, public authorities and other local stakeholders.

Thematic information

Social inclusion and equal opportunities SME and entrepreneurship

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs

Department: n/a

Address: Olimpiou Diamanti 14, 54626 Thessaloniki, Greece

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.sege.gr

Total budget: EUR 132 689.75

ENI budget: EUR 122 074.57

Сдружение Бизнес Агенция

Name: Сдружение Бизнес Агенция

Department: n/a

Address: 11 Prezviter Kozma, 9002 Varna, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vba.bg

Total budget: EUR 106 347.81

ENI budget: EUR 97 839.99

“EKOTURIZMI ASOCIACIA”HASARAKAKAN KAZMAKERPUTJUN ECOTOURISM ASSOCIATION

Name: “EKOTURIZMI ASOCIACIA”HASARAKAKAN KAZMAKERPUTJUN ECOTOURISM ASSOCIATION

Department: n/a

Address: 2 H.Hakobyan St., (Address of main activities) 22, 33 Yerevan, Armenia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.ecotourismarmenia.com

Total budget: EUR 99 978.66

ENI budget: EUR 91 980.37

The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey

Name: The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey

Department: n/a

Address: Levent Büyükdere Caddesi 199, 34394 Instabul, Turkey

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.kagider.org

Total budget: EUR 97 098.22

ENI budget: EUR 89 330.36

The Georgian Association “Women in Business”

Name: The Georgian Association “Women in Business”

Department: n/a

Address: 7. Kipshidze str, 160 Tbilisi, Georgia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.gawb.ge

Total budget: EUR 95 869.86

ENI budget: EUR 88 200.27

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Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Partners and Projects info

“EKOTURIZMI ASOCIACIA”HASARAKAKAN KAZMAKERPUTJUN ECOTOURISM ASSOCIATION

Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Partners and Projects info

The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey

Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Partners and Projects info

The Georgian Association “Women in Business”

Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Partners and Projects info

Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs

Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

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Summary

Project name (EN): Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

Project acronym: WE TOUR

Project start date: 2021-06-26

Project end date: 2023-06-25

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 531 984.30

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 489 425.56

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 489 425.56.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-15

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

57 / 57 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

281 / 281 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://blacksea-cbc.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01.

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Black Sea Women Entrepreneurship Connection – Empowering Women through Tourism

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