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Developed projects
„Business Opportunities for Women” – co -
financed by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) and CIDA
(Canadian Agency for International Development), June – November
2003
 Goal
To raise the level of women’s involvement in entrepreneurial
activity of Iasi city
Target group
• 40 women willing to start a small
business
• 40 women to become self -employee
Objectives
• To support women in starting and
developing their own business in order to contribute to economic
development of local comunity
• to encourage the small
entrepreneurship for women in different jobs required by the
present trend of the labour market (obtaining the authorization
for individual activities/ self employment)
• to contribute to the
implementation of the Action Plan for Sustainable Development
for Iasi in order to improve the business sector and to raise
the economic status of the citizens
Obtained Results
• 70 % of the women gained the
abilities and the techniques for starting a their own business
business
• designing a local plan to suport
business women in Iasi comunity
• a brochure containing all the
necessary information for staring a business has been edited
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Culture and Education –
Poll Opinion in Tatarasi - financed by Pro Helvetia – Swiss
Cultural Programme Romania, July - August 2003
Goal
Identifying the local priorities in Iasi city and Tatarasi
district especially, related to information, education and
citizens participation to the cultural activities, in order to
raise their personal development and their contribution to the
community development and to the quality of life.
Activities
• Organizing 3 focus groups of 8 –
10 persons from Tătăraşi district
• Conducting an oppinion poll on
400 persons living in Tatarasi district
• Realising a research related to
culture and education needs for people
Obtained Results
• organising a meeting at Iaşi City
Hall including Vice Mayor Gheorghe Nechita, representatives of
Pro Helvetia and various non-governamental organisations. The
aim of the meeting targets the setting of a collaboration
pertnership regarding cultural-based activities in Tătăraşi
district.
• creating of a partnership between
Vector Association, Romanian Coreographical Foundation and Pro
WOMEN Foundation in order to realise a long term cultural
project in Tătăraşi district, supported by Pro Helvetia
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Women@Work NET, financed by Socrates ,
Grundtvig 2. Pro WOMEN foundation is partner in this project
implemented by European Contact Group – Czech Republic together
with other 3 organizations : Community Connections – United
Kingdom, Vilnius Trade Union ‘Solidarumas’ – Lithuania and
Bridge to Life – Czech Republic, August 2003 – July 2004
Objectives
• Help and training for women
activists from disadvantaged regions of Europe (especially in
the East) to start and run projects leading to empowerment and
requalification for unemployed women.
• Exchange of know-how, experience
and information on women projects and policies around Europe
related to women’s unemployment and work-related discrimination,
opportunities of learning and requalification as well as
development of new learning strategies.
• Visits of different women’s
projects and mutual exchanges focused on practical learning.
• Promotion of effective strategies
to combat women’s unemployment and discrimination, raising
public awareness on these issues.
• Network & partnership building
and promoting discussion and cooperation among partner
organisations on the local and European level.
Between 17 September 2003 and 20 September 2003, an
international workshop took place in Great Yarmouth, UK as one
of the first planned activity of the project. The seminar ‘WOMEN
IN MARGINAL AREAS – WOMEN IN PRECARIOUS ECONOMIES’ gathered
women from 11 countries: Great Britain, Romania, Czech Republic
and Lithuania, as partners within the project along with guests
from Albania, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, Finland, Poland and
Spain.
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seminar was focused on four major topics:
• WOMEN & THE LABOUR MARKET -
Analysis of the local situation & common points with our local
realities & relation to the global economy causing the similar
situation in various European countries. Are the women in poor
areas even poorer than men? Quality of family life in relation
to poverty. Home based precarious & informal work. Issue of
basic skills. Unemployment and social exclusion. Seasonal work.
Women entrepreneurs in poor areas.
• WOMEN OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN
SMALL TOWNS - Difference between the life of migrant and refugee
women in cities and small regional towns or villages. Problems
they face. Relationship with the local community. Projects on
racial equality.
• WOMEN MAKING CONNECTIONS -
Introduction of local project on community building, support and
empowerment of women. Presentations of the other European
projects. Strategies for networking and an effective
co-operation on the ECG international level.
• WOMEN SUPPORT WOMEN - How we can
link local action with the global responsibility. How we can
support women working in garment industry under unbearable
conditions in other countries. Sweatshops in Europe. Clean
Clothes Campaign.
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Between 4th
and 8th February an evaluation and planning meeting took place
in Prague, Czech Republic. There were 10 participants from 5
countries and the aims of the meeting were to do a short
evaluation of the activities developed so far and also to plan
the seminar to be organized in Iasi by the end of the June.
Apart from planning end evaluating, the participants also
acquired and practiced new icebreaking methods and tools for
group leading, chairing workshops and facilitating discussionc
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An
international workshop “Women’s learning and practice on the
labour market” was organized in Iasi, Romania between 30th June
and 6th July 2004 as a second workshop in the frame of the W&W
Net.
The aims were:
• to learn about the women’s
projects and organisations in Romania
• find out more information about
women from disadvantaged rural regions
• exchange experience on strategies
of combating women’s discrimination on the labour market
• get training on evaluation and
emancipatory research
• make new contacts and links to
women’s project in Serbia and Republic of Moldova
• discuss daily working problems,
be together and empower each other.
25 women from Czech Republic, Lithuania, Moldavia, Romania,
Serbia and UK participated in the seminar. The main organiser
was Pro WOMEN foundation Romania with a support of the European
Contact Group in the Czech Republic.
Women@Work NET, financed by Socrates,
Grundtvig 2. Pro WOMEN foundation is partner in this project
implemented by European Contact Group – Czech Republic together
with other 3 organizations : Community Connections – United
Kingdom, Vilnius Trade Union ‘Solidarumas’ – Lithuania and
Bridge to Life – Czech Republic, August 2003 – July 2004 (second
year)
Developed activities
22 - 26 September 2004, Prague, Czech
Republic (organizer –
European Contact Group, 9 participants) – Evaluation and
planning meeting. It was assessed Iasi workshop and it was
established the agenda for the next meeting from Vilnius,
Lithuania. There have been analyzed the needs related to the
project, based on an evaluation of what had been done so far.
1 – 5 December 2004, Vilnius, Lithuania
(organizer – Solidarumas Lithuania ,30 participants) - Training
workshop. The idea of this workshop was to become aware about
the women’s situation on the Lithuanian labour market,
especially those working in the informal economy, such as home
based workers, and to conduct training for a group of Lithuanian
home based workers. The training was provided by the project
team and included element of planning and organizational
development, as well of communication
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– 28 February 2005, Trutnov, Cehia (organizer –
Bridge to Life, 10 participants) – Evaluation and planning
meeting. The meeting aimed to plan the last project’s meeting to
take place in Great Yarmouth, Great Britain, as well for decide
on the final materials of the network and follow-up strategies
7 – 13 July 2005, Great Yarmouth, Great
Britain (organizer – Community Connections, 11
participants) – Final meeting. 2 years of project activities
were evaluated and were discussed the possibilities of project
follow up.
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Anti Discrimination Campaign (ADC),
financed by IREX, June – August 2004
Goal
To raise the citizens’ awareness on the discrimination
phenomenon, especially on the labor market
Main objectives
• Conducting a local campaign in
order to promote the principle of nondiscrimination and equality
on the labor market between women and men
• Designing and organizing
trainings for employees and trade union leaders for
discrimination issues, existing regulations, compliance, etc.
• Raising the level of information
and support for working women or women looking for a job in
order to have an equal treatment in their professional lives
Activities
• providing local radio spots
for antidiscrimination awareness purpose through one of the most
popular local radio station
• providing local TV spots for
antidiscrimination awareness purpose within two of the most
popular local TV stations - part of national TV networks
• help line for information and
counseling in discrimination issues
• training within local companies :
12 women – representatives of local authorities- trained by Pro
WOMEN as gender facilitators and trainers within EGAL project
financed by SOROS Foundation in 2002 will do these trainings
within 15 local companies (at least 300 managers, board persons
and employee)
• designing and distributing
informative materials: flyers and leaf-lets for unemployed women
looking for a job ( 500 women will receive these information)
containing information on discrimination ; editing and
distributing the sociological survey that has been done to the
local companies( at least 200 pieces); 3 banners for phone line
announcement
• organizing a local march against
discrimination ( Pro WOMEN staff and volunteers, partners,
clients and collaborators).
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ILSA – follow – up, Equal Chances on the
Labour Market from Iasi, sociological research, September 2003 –
January 2004
Activities
• Conducting an opinion poll in
Iasi city on worker's opinion on discrimination on the labour
market (600 subjects)
• Sociological interviews with
managers of the most important local companies regarding their
policies on equal chances on the labour market
• Organising a meeting in
partnership with the Local Department of Unemployment;
participants will be managers, other NGO who developed projects
on the labour market and also mass-media. The meeting will
present the results of the opinion pool and will discuss the
local strategy for dealing with and especially those at a high
social risk.
• Sending the conclusions to many
enterprises at the local level
Obtained results
• Disemination of the survey for
many country NGO’s and to many specialists
• Publishing an article in Capital
magazine no. 16 from 14 of April 2004
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Youth and European
Integration (TIE), financed by EU, Europe Fund 2004 program, 15
November 2004 – 15 August 2005
Aim
Raising the degree of information and understanding on EU
related issues and Romania’s EU integration for high school
teens in Iasi, Vaslui, Neamt and Botosani counties.
The high schools involved in the project are:
In IASI county
1. “Constantin Brancusi” High Schhol- Iasi
2. “Haralamb Vasiliu” High School – Podu Iloaiei
3. “Ion Neculce” High School – Targu Frumos
4. “Miron Costin” High School – Pascani
In BOTOSANI county
1. Elie Radu Industrial High School - Botosani
2. Bucecea Industrial High School - Bucecea
3. Grigore Ghica Voievod High School - Dorohoi
4. High School - Stefanesti
In NEAMT county
1. High School - Roznov
2. Gheorghe Cartianu High School - Piatra Neamţ
3. High School Bicaz - Bicaz
4. Miron Costin High School - Roman
In VASLUI county
1. Industrial High School – Negresti
2. “Dimitrie Cantemir” High School - .Husi
3. Mihail Kogalniceanu High School - Vaslui
4. High School - Codaeşti
Target group
• 320 teens from X and XII forms in
every 16 high schools involved in the project
• 16 teachers from the same high
schools
Activities and results
- Selecting the professors and the students participating in the
project
- Setting up the debate clubs
- Training the coordinating professors from the 16 high schools
by organizing two training sessions:
Iasi - 5-6
February 2005 , “Introduction in European Affairs”,
in which 6 topics were tackled: European Union – general
presentation, EU Constitution, Education, training and youth
policies, EU policy on culture audiovisual, Social and
employment policies, Free movement of workers
Iasi, 13
February 2005, Training “Introduction in debate technique”
- Training EuroDEBATE students on European affairs and debate
technique
- General information on European Union; the club’s members
distributed over 8000 of leaflets containing general information
on EU, titled “What you SHOULD KNOW about EU?”
- Demo debates of EuroDEBATE clubs on the following topics: EU
tends to eliminate the national identity, Education in
immigrant’s mother tongue has the effect of their social
exclusion, The free movement of workers in EU may involve
misbalances on the labor market
 Botosani County - 4 of June 2005, Topic: Constitution is a
necessity for EU construction; the winner was Euro Club 21 from
Stefanesti
Vaslui County – 11 of June 2005, Topic: The free movement of
workers in EU may involve misbalances on the labor market; the
winner was club Conventum from Negresti
Iasi County – 12 of June 2005, Topic: The free movement of
workers in EU may involve misbalances on the labor market; the
winner was club Tinerama from Targu Frumos
Neamt County – 18 of June 2005, Topic: Constitution is a
necessity for EU construction; the winner was club EUROTEAM from
Bicaz
- Regional debate contest in Vatra Dornei on 16 – 17 July 2005.
Topic: EU tends to eliminate the national identity. The final
was on the same topic between Conventum and Tinerama – Fun Euro
clubs; the winner was Conventum team.
- Realizing the informative bulletins within the clubs
- editing and disseminating CDs with the outcomes of the project
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cARTier, financed by
Swiss Cultural Programme, PARTNERS: Vector Cultural Association,
The City Council of Iasi, local partners in the district of
Tatarasi, January – April 2004 (preparing the project period).
Pro WOMEN Foundation played the role of the coach
 In this period the coaching agency assisted Vector team in
preparing the project and ensuring a collaboration frame with
Iasi City Hall, Tatarasi Athenaeum and the groups of initiative
fromTatarasi neighbourhood
Main goal
To create a community cultural space in Tatarasi, as a place for
rebuilding social relationships and recreating public space.
Coaching agency specific objectives
• Support for
Vector Cultural Association organizational development
• Ensuring
the frame for collaboration with partners, stakeholders and
initiatives groups
• Monitoring
and evaluating project progress
Conducting periodically polls within neighbourhood inhabitants
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