Grow and Sell for Sustainable Living - Sowing the seeds ofyoung female entrepreneurship

<< Background >>Grow and Sell aims to address the need for empowerment and social integration of young women in precarious situations in Europe: young migrant women, young women excluded from the education system and the labour market, young single mothers in precarious situations, etc.The project aims to promote micro-farming and sustainable gardening models to enable these young women in precarious situations to develop their personal and entrepreneurial skills to help their social and professional inclusion through development.<< Objectives >>The Grow and Sell for Sustainable Living - Sowing the seeds of young female entrepreneurship project (Cultivating and selling for sustainable living - Sowing the seeds of young female entrepreneurship) has three objectives.1. Promote a sustainable environment among young people2. Promote active citizenship and entrepreneurship among young people, particularly young women in precarious situations3. Strengthen the social inclusion of young women in precarious situations and their access to the world of workTo meet these objectives, the partners have chosen to promote sustainable agriculture and gardening initiatives as a means of personal and entrepreneurial development for young women in precarious situations.<< Implementation >>The project is structured around five work packages (WP) as follows:WP1 - Project management: coordination between partners, administrative, financial and logistical monitoringWP2 - Methodology and training programme: co-construction of a training programme for socio-educational facilitators focused on the inclusion of young women through activities related to sustainable agriculture and entrepreneurship - development of a manual to raise awareness among stakeholders about the project's issuesWP3 - Online toolkit for socio-educational facilitators: development and testing of non-formal educational tools to train and support youth/social workers on the theme of ‘Growing and selling’, based on the LifeComp and EntreComp reference frameworksWP4 - Toolkit for young women: creation of a practical learning pathway (gardening, hygiene, safety, marketing) tested with 76 young women.WP5 - Sharing and promotion: organisation of national dissemination events, planning the creation and maintenance of a Facebook social media presence, creation and distribution of four newsletters.<< Results >>Grow and Sell has produced the following results:- The Grow and Sell manual illustrates the issues surrounding sustainable agriculture and local food production to raise awareness among stakeholders of its relevance to young women in vulnerable situations. - The Grow and Sell training programme enables youth workers and educators to develop the skills and knowledge needed to effectively implement the Grow and Sell methodology with groups of young women. - The Grow and Sell quests are a set of participatory, bottom-up and non-formal learning practices that support the training programme to strengthen the skills of youth workers and be implemented with groups of young women. Five action sheets have been designed to help socio-educational facilitators implement the teaching method with young women in vulnerable situations.- The Grow and Sell flashcards are activities designed to be implemented by groups of young women, possibly with the support of a facilitator, to help them understand the concepts and acquire knowledge on the subject.