Women 5.0 responds to this challenge by providing targeted training, resources, and mentorship to enhance digital skills, foster entrepreneurship, and support trainers in guiding women through digital transformation. Women 5.0 aligns with EU priorities on digital inclusion and gender equality, contributing to a more diverse and innovative entrepreneurial landscape. 

The project started on September 2024 and will end on August 2026.

• Women at any stage of their entrepreneurial process. Those with fewer opportunities will be prioritized based on a rubric, attending to the key barriers they may face: ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL, GEOGRAFICAL, HEALTH. 
• Entrepreneurship trainers and advisors – Criteria to prioritize them will be having an employment relationship with the partner entity and experience supporting women entrepreneurs. Also at least a B1 English level to participate in transnational training and experience exchanges 
• Relevant stakeholders will be approached to build the Multi- Stakeholder’s Groups
• General society: a wide audience of women will be reached, especially those in a professional guidance process to became aware of the digital gender gap and how they can bridge it for their professional growth.

The specific objectives are to:

• Fighting digital gender stereotypes & empowering women towards equal access, use and exploitation of technologies, especially for their professional purposes.
• Develop a learning pathway for women to acquire the key digital and technological skills to solve entrepreneurial challenges in three progressive levels of digital competence, building their digital capacity and creating upskilling pathways in adult education.
• Reinforcing entrepreneurship trainers’ key role to support, motivate and engage women in their use of ICT. Trainers will learn new methods and develop skills to build women’s confidence and to guide them through the learning path with conviction on their competence and motivation on their business idea.

By developing a Women 5.0 Competence Framework, a Digital Toolkit, and an Awareness Campaign, the project promotes equal access to technology, encourages innovation, and ensures that women – particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds – can fully participate in the digital future

The main products that will be the result of the co-operation between the project partners are:

• Learning Path for women entrepreneurs’ digital skills at different levels available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Macedonian.
• Digital Toolkit for entrepreneurship trainers, advisors and trainees with digital resources in order to engage female entrepreneurs in the use of new technologies at different levels in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Macedonian.
• Inspiring national and European Awareness Campaigns to promote women’s empowerment for equal access, use and exploitation of technology.

• Increase the possibilities for potential women entrepreneurs to integrate into the labour market by creating their own business in a competent and effective way, by directly creating a technological business or by digitalising it using new technologies.
• Trainers supporting female entrepreneurs enhance their skills to provide more sensitive and informed guidance on the gender digital divide, while organisations adopting the toolkit strengthen their services and position themselves as committed to digital inclusion.
• Raise awareness about the importance of women’s empowerment for equal access to technology, enhance their understanding of the gender digital divide, and equip them with practical tools to overcome it.