FEMCOOP

• Cross-border survey of the potential in the cross-border region.
• Working out a model to motivate young women and girls to choose scientific and technical professions.
• Establishment of a cross-border competence network with industrial premises, schools and institutions to make possible direct information and experience exchange.
• Establishment and operation of 5 partnerships between schools and companies (with highly skilled female employees) as pilot projects to enable further projects to be launched. The execution includes women working in metal industry and electronics as coaches (role models), in order to open new perspectives to the younger generation during the workshops.

• cross-border survey of the potential in the regions carried out;
• cross-border pilot projects with schools carried out;
• cross-border competence network and model development established.

The project took measures to increase contact between schools and enterprises, activate the concept of role models/mentors and the development of target group-oriented training modules for girls in the technical field.  Results were presented in a joint cross-border meeting of all stakeholders on the topic of young women and technology.

Training based on the developed modules was offered in each partner region targeting earmarked partnerships between schools and businesses. Female qualified personnel accompanied the students as coaches and role models. Training workshops were offered with experts from businesses to improve the quality of career choice for students. In the context of out-of-school learning young women acquired technical skills as part of experimental modules in regional training workshops. A series of study trips were organised for the students from both countries.

Many of its elements – network, schools/companies partnerships, models – have created favourable conditions for a longer-term sustainability of benefits derived from the project.