1. Yevgeniya Averhed
Project coordinator
Empowerment kit for Immigrant
women with low educational /
working experience
Final conference in Stockholm
5 October 2012
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

2. Some facts about EM-kit project
LLL programme: Grundtvig multilateral project
Duration: October 2010 – October 2012
Coordinator:
Project partners:

3. Definitions and statistics
 Target group of the project: non-EU foreign born women
(outside EU-27)
 Statistics: approximately half of 1.8 million of non-EU foreign
born immigrants in Europe (2009)
 Reasons for migration:
Family migration – about 52 %
Employment (with job settled before migration) – 2 %
Employment (without job settled before migration) – 23 %
International protection – 9 %
Study – 6 %
Other – 8 %

4. Main trends regarding education and
employment of immigrant women in Europe
For high-educated women:
Deskilling and overqualification
For low-educated women:
High undemployment and lack of labour
market opportunities and educational
possibilities
For

5. High-educated immigrant women (EU:2009)
Native-born Foreign-born Non-EU-27-born
women women women
 Part-time work
 Temporary contracts
 Lower wages
 Typically female sectors:
Cooking
Cleaning
Healthcare
Household
 Grey market and more..

6. Low-educated immigrant women (EU:2009)
More 77 mln. of people in EU are low-skilled.
Immigrant women are highly represented
among them
Main reasons are war, lack of well-functioning
educational system in countries of origin and
other
Employment rate of immigrant women is 16.5
% lower then women of EU nationality
Consequences: social isolation and
segregation

7. Situation in project countries
7
PES
Municipality
Education
Language
Employer
Labour market
Courses
NGOs
Active
citizenship /
employment
Entry

8. 8
Objectives of EM-kit project
Woman
To assist immigrant women to societyTo assist immigrant women to society
and labour market in host countriesand labour market in host countries
through adult educationthrough adult education
Information about:Information about:
EducationEducation
Labour market systemsLabour market systems
Self-esteemSelf-esteem
MotivationMotivation

9. 5
4
Active citizenship
Joining in
Going outside
Working on professional
qualifications
Voluntary work
Living in isolation
2
3
6
1
Result 1
Result 3
Result 4
Result 5
Individual plan
Coach (PES)
Result 2
EM-kit concept

10. More information on the web-site of the project:
www.socialempowerment.eu
Contact information:
Yevgeniya Averhed (project coordinator)
+4618680036
yevgeniya.averhed@folkuniversitetet.se

11. And finally…
“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you
educate a generation.”
― Brigham Young
Thank you for your attention!