These overviews were developed within the joint project: Learning Partnerships against Social Exclusion: Mentoring for Women Entrepreneurs, implemented by the Center of Women’s Studies and Policies Foundation – Sofia, the Center of Women’s Studies and Policies Association – Bratislava and KADER Association for Supporting and Training Women Candidates – Ankara during the period of 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006. The project is financed by the Socrates/ Grundtvig 2 Learning Partnerships Subprogram.

The project aims at exchanging knowledge and good practices about mentoring for women entrepreneurs as an alternative learning form, and promoting mentoring for women entrepreneurs as a way to overcome gender disparities, social exclusion and poverty by empowering women to participate more actively in national economy.

The overviews answers some key question in order to analyse the existing gender disparities and/or inequalities in the three countries concerning the economic activity of men and women amd the different experience in training women in entrepreneurship. The Slovak overview focuses mainly on the methodology of the mentoring practice, while the Bulgarian and Turkish ones analyse the existing experiences in the two countries and whether mentoring can be applied there as a training approach. The Bulgarian overview also include a report on a small inquiry conducted among women entrepreneurs within the scope of the project, which present the opinions of the respondents and their willingness to participate in mentoring training programmes.

Foreword: foreword.pdf (25.16 Kb)

Bulgaria overview:   overview_CWSP.pdf(385.27 Kb)

Report on the enquiry: report_inquiry_EN.pdf (70.33 Kb)

Turkey overview:      overview_KADER.pdf(132.67 Kb)

Methodology of the mentoring practice in Slovakia: mentoring_TCP.pdf(12.56 Kb)