Online Course for Rural Women

If your are interested in attending an online course for rural women:

• focusing on entrepreneurship, rural tourism, social media and marketing and
• connecting with and learning from like minded rural women throughout Ireland - 

Please complete the Expression of Interest Form below. More information will be available shortly and we will advise registered individuals.

Rural entrepreneurship and the rural femmes project

The Hincks Centre were delighted to host the Rural Femmes Project Multiplier Event which took place online, Thursday, March 31st, 2022 as part of MTU's Innovation and Enterprise Month.

Colleagues from Ireland presented and shared the Erasmus+ KA2 funded project pedagogical approaches, outputs, feedback and plans for the future during the event. Led by Dr Niall O’Leary, Research Fellow with the Hincks Centre, the event discussed the intellectual outputs from the project with a wider audience.

Online Train the Trainer Course in Teaching Entrepreneurship

If you are interested in attending an online Train the Trainer course in Teaching Entrepreneurship, please email Rebecca.Robinson@mtu.ie.

Rural Femmes Project

RuralFemmes is an Erasmus+ KA2 funded project (2019-1-FR01-KA204-062964) led by Chambre Départemental d'Agriculture de Dordogne from Periguex, France.

The project aims to support and empower rural women by creating and implementing a training and coaching programme - the Rural Femmes Transnational Training Programme. This programme will satisfy the educational needs of rural women that are working and rural women seeking work, and it will help them acquire key skills and knowledge.

The Training Programme seeks to fulfill two main goals:

1. Develop the women’s basic transversal skills (digital, entrepreneurial, interpersonal, etc.) and
2. Address their specific technical needs for each activity sector (such as rural companies, sustainable farming, tourism, etc.)

Each of the project partners will produce a regional report specifying the socio-economic, educational and cultural requirements of women workers in rural areas, and form regional support groups, or women’s think tanks, that will allow women to provide their insights into the design of the training programme. The Individual Analysis Report for the Southern Region in Ireland is available here.

The kick-off meeting was held in Gijon, Spain on September 26, 2019 and the project will run until February 2022.

partner locations

Chambre Départemental d'Agriculture de Dordogne from Perigueux, France is the project lead with partners from:

• Munster Technological University (Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence) – Cork, Ireland;
• Desarrollo de Estrategias Exteriores SA (Grupo DEX) – Gijon, Spain;
• Instituto Navarro de Tecnologias e Infraestructuras Agroalimentarias S.A. (INTIA) – Villava (Pamplona), Spain;
• Universitat Hohenheim – Stuttgart, Germany.

Disclaimer: This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.