A presentation was recently held at the Lifelong Learning Centre, Msida, regarding an EU project entitled Practical Young Women Education Programme (PYWE), which aims to encourage the sharing of adult learning experience and the development of future lifelong learning courses in Malta, Italy and Turkey.

The project’s main aim is to support young women by creating the right educational programmes to enhance their professional development, higher education and job mobility, socialisation and gender equality. The project partners worked on a series of activities to promote and enhance their existing practices in this regard.

The presentation was combined with an award ceremony for 84 adults who successfully completed short courses held by the Education Ministry’s Directorate for Lifelong Learning, which is the local partner in the project.

As part of the project, a website – www.womenwantwork.eu – has been created to promote the sharing of good practices and individual experiences through photos and project work. The photo albums will help to give an insight to the educational activities and lifelong learning courses in each participating country.

The creation of new curricula for Lifelong Learning courses in various sectors will also help to strengthen and expand European collaboration in areas where languages, employability, education and business strategies intersect.

The project partners are conducting research to define the needs in their respective country to create new or enhance existing lifelong learning courses being offered.

Women in Malta between the ages of 18 and 40 are invited to visit education.gov.mt/survey to take part in a 10-minute survey the directorate is conducting on the subject.