Description
The project is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and business projects for women, as well as networking for entrepreneurs at national level as a key mechanism for economic revitalization of rural areas. The project includes activities to be implemented throughout the national territory, except service training of traditional crafts and coaching for business creation in the sector, which will have a pilot character, and will be developed only in Cantabria. In addition, the project includes the creation of a web site, highlighting results and lessons learned so it will have a high impact in transferring the experience to other territories. It will also include a periodic evaluation: training and promotion of traditional crafts in the regions.
Summary of project results
The project Enhebrando responds to the need to address the uniqueness of the socio-economic situation of rural women in Spain. The main objective is to promote the enterprising attitude of women through the revaluation of the traditional trades. To achieve this objective various activities have been carried out with the collaboration of the partners: creation of the website
www.enhebrando.es, a national survey of women in the traditional trades, days of visibility of the project, training courses in traditional trades, a comprehensive program of counseling and coaching, awards for business excellence and a virtual catalog of craftswomen, all with a total impact on 7,500 beneficiaries. Once the project is developed, there is a commitment to maintain updated both the web as the virtual catalog of artisans, as well as responding to the demand for new training initiatives in the communities of Cantabria and Castilla.
Summary of bilateral results
The contribution of the Norwegian entity to the project, despite having been intermittent, has contributed to spread the situation of women's handicrafts in Norway, in both the economic and ethnographic, in addition to collaborate in the development of the virtual catalog of craftswomen, providing information about Norwegian women immersed in the sector.