Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The project deals with the issues of Estonian women who have moved to Finland and is therefore in general aimed to strengthen the communities of women who have left their homeland and are living and working in another country in Baltic Sea area. Compared to local residents the migrants are socially and economically more vulnerable and face more challeges which they are often not able or prepared to foresee. So far the issue has not been much dealt with and there is lacking systematic approach to the topic. This project is approaching the topic via different type of activities, indicating first the main questions and problems the migrant women have and making steps in helping to solve those problems via community activities. Target groups (Estonian women already living and working in Finland and also women in Estonia who are yet planning to move) are involved in most of the project activities. The activities with the target group will be organised by selecting 3 groups on women (in Turku, Helsinki and Tallinn) as peer groups involved in project activities. Project uses Peer Counselling technique which enables to give both knowledge and emotional, practical and social support to participants. Turku and Helsinki regions are selected due to the density of Estonian population and operational partner organisations working with Estonians. The common discussions of issues and problems in the peer group sessions Finland and Estonia will strengthen the sense of community and relations among the women and help them to communicate and share their life with each other also in the future. Project activities include data collection, compiling 3 peer groups of Estonian female migrants Turku, Helsinki and Tallinn, organisation of peer group events thoroughout the whole project period, establishment of walk-in info points in Turku and Helsinki, communication activities, including facebook community and project web page.

Achievements (EN):

FEM - providing information to Estonian women living in Finland: Compared to local residents, foreigners encounter bigger challenges to enter the labour market. FEM project focused on offering support to Estonian women moving to Finland. To enable smoother access into the Finnish labour market, both for the Estonian women planning to move to Finland and for those already living in the country, the project established info points ”infotuba” in Turku and Helsinki and peer support groups as well as several information events both in Finland and Estonia. The events covered issues such as: • economic coping. • children and education. • language, language barriers, and culture. • local people's attitudes, stereotypes. • labour market . Altogether 165 people visited or contacted the info points and 260 people participated in information activities.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.1. Communities with improvements

Expected Outputs (EN):

As the result of the project the Estonian migrant women in Finland will be better integrated in the local community. Other main result will be that women can make more conscious decisions (based on more information and also more support from peers) when they are planning to immigrate. The common discussions of issues and problems in the peer group sessions Finland and Estonia will strengthen the sense of community and relations among the women and help them to communicate and share their life with each other also in the future. In addition project also enhances networking among wider target group and provides information related to the problems and questions of migrant women. Community and networking activities will increase the involvment of the targeted communities to the society in target country via strengthening their ties with each other in peer groups, via participating the events in local organisations and via the information of facebook group page. As a result of the project also the issuses related to migration (particulary migration of women) are more acknowledged both in Finland and in Estonia, on local governments level and in society in general. Also the awareness of the target group and the society in general will be increased on the issues related to emigration/migration and life/work in new countries. This will help those women who are planning to immigrate to make more concious decisions.

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More people benefiting from stronger Central Baltic communities

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Euroopa Eesti Seltside Koda MTÜ

Department: NGO Chamber of Estonian Societies in Europe

Address: Kaupmehe 15, 10114 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 85 959.80

ERDF budget: EUR 73 065.83

Varsinais-Suomen Viro-keskus ry

Name: Varsinais-Suomen Viro-keskus ry

Department: Estonian Center of Southwest Finland

Address: Vanha Suurtori 3, 20500 Turku, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.viro-keskus.fi

Total budget: EUR 70 360.00

ERDF budget: EUR 52 770.00

Suomen Viro-yhdistysten liitto ry

Name: Suomen Viro-yhdistysten liitto ry

Department: The Association of Estonia-Societies in Finland

Address: Sörnäisten rantatie 22, 540 Helsinki, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://svyl.fi/

Total budget: EUR 53 825.00

ERDF budget: EUR 40 368.75

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Estonian Center of Southwest Finland

Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

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The Association of Estonia-Societies in Finland

Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

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NGO Chamber of Estonian Societies in Europe

Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

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Summary

Project name (EN): Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

Project acronym: FEM (Female Estonian Migrant)

Project start date: 2016-04-01

Project end date: 2018-03-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 210 144.80

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 166 204.58

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 166 204.58.

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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

2023-11-11

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

137 / 137 (100%)

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

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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Unlocking the Potential of Estonian Migrant Women

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