Module 1 “Overcoming Challenges Faced by Women Entrepreneurs” aims to shed light on the prevailing stereotypes in entrepreneurship. The module is focused on the gender perspective of entrepreneurship and highlights the difficulties women entrepreneurs still face regarding work-life balance, leadership and negative publicity. The educational goal is to support you as a WECoach in understanding the current situation of women’s entrepreneurship in your country and women’s contribution to its economic and social development.
The duration of the whole module is approximately 8 hours.
The learning is self-paced and organised in several sections. The interactive presentation summaries the key take away points and provides self-assessment options strengthening the overall comprehension for the subject. The textbook on the module provides the depth of the covered concepts enhancing your skills as a WEcoach in the covered topics, while the section on the learning activities grouped by Units, lists all available resources for strengthening the learning by doing process. The last section provides a list of used resources (reference list) in the creation of the module, which can be assessed in your further learning.

This module aims at supporting you as a WECoach to develop skills and knowledge on how to strengthen the skills of the coachee (unemployed women and women to be entrepreneurs), in establishing and managing an enterprise/business. The module has a twofold purpose:
- to enable you as a WECoach to train and support the coachee and to update her understanding of the main skills every entrepreneur needs to have.
- To provide you with tools and sources to transfer this knowledge to your coachee and enable her to take the first steps into the entrepreneurial world, inspiring her for her own enterprise’s vision and mission;
The duration of the whole module is approximately 8 hours. The learning is self-paced and organised in several sections. The interactive presentation summaries the key take away points and provides self-assessment options strengthening the overall comprehension for the subject. The textbook on the module provides the depth of the covered concepts enhancing your skills as a WEcoach in the covered topics, while the section on the learning activities grouped by Units, lists all available resources for strengthening the learning by doing process. The last section provides a list of used resources (reference list) in the creation of the module, which can be assessed in your further learning.

Coaching entrepreneurial soft skills development for women is key. Imagine a woman setting up her own business only because she has very specific expertise in a given field. Does this single factor mean that her business will be a success? There are diverse skills that one needs to develop to become a successful entrepreneur. The aim of the module is to give you as a WECoach the tools to support the coachees (unemployed women and women to be entrepreneurs) on the soft skills improvement, with a special focus on communication, networking, leadership, and social media skills.
The duration of the whole module is approximately 8 hours.
The learning is self-paced and organised in several sections. The interactive presentation summaries the key take away points and provides self-assessment options strengthening the overall comprehension for the subject. The textbook on the module provides the depth of the covered concepts enhancing your skills as a WEcoach in the covered topics, while the section on the learning activities grouped by Units, lists all available resources for strengthening the learning by doing process. The last section provides a list of used resources (reference list) in the creation of the module, which can be assessed in your further learning.

This module aims to introduce the main principles of a social enterprise and what it means to be a social entrepreneur in the 21st century. The educational goal is to equip you as a WECoach with knowledge, skills and competences on the basic aspects of entrepreneurship and offer practical tools to be used in the process of coaching the coachees (unemployed women and women to be entrepreneurs).
The duration of the whole module is approximately 8 hours.
The learning is self-paced and organised in several sections. The interactive presentation summaries the key take away points and provides self-assessment options strengthening the overall comprehension for the subject. The textbook on the module provides the depth of the covered concepts enhancing your skills as a WEcoach in the covered topics, while the section on the learning activities grouped by Units, lists all available resources for strengthening the learning by doing process. The last section provides a list of used resources (reference list) in the creation of the module, which can be assessed in your further learning.
