9-10 November 2023 | Naples
Elina Isakova, an academic researcher at the Science-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, went to Naples (Italy) to meet face-to-face with the consortium of the RestART project, where she is the project manager.
Members of each partner institution contributed to the meeting by addressing different project results. This included the successful completion of the first project outcome "Restarting Businesses in the Creative and Arts Industry through Mentorship" report, the second project result "Online Platform Ment-Net and Mentoring Scope". The platform will foster interaction and networking between restarting women entrepreneurs and mentors. It also represents an incentive for mentors to interact with fellow mentors who have strengths in other areas, thus providing an opportunity to complement expertise when supporting mentees and the satisfaction of helping women entrepreneurs.
There was also active discussion about project result three "The RestART Mentor's Toolkit". The toolkit is composed of a collection of instruments and best practices that will help to strengthen the skills and capacities of mentors and provide them with the right means to impact and support women entrepreneurs through mentoring.
Moreover, the consortium had a brainstorming session regarding the final project result "Online Mentor Capacity Building Program for Mentors and Handbook", creating the ground for the successful implementation of this project result. The Mentor Capacity Building Program aims to equip mentors with the right knowledge, skills, and tools to design a quality mentoring program for restarting women entrepreneurs. It is composed of an online capacity-building program for mentors featuring a variety of courses on different topics (identified through the Analysis performed in PR1) and a comprehensive Handbook to teach and train the mentors on how to use the Toolkit (PR3).
RestART project aims to bring together restarting women entrepreneurs and potential mentors in the arts and creative industries to improve the quality of mentoring and generate a positive impact for both women entrepreneurs seeking a second chance, and the arts and creative industries. Thank you to our hosts Angelo Ranieri and Cristina Mele, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) for a stimulating and rewarding environment, for the whole prepared activities, and to the engaged, insightful and thought-provoking consortium partners: Rita Grácio and Margarida Santos, Lusófona University (Portugal), Harshitha Polathula, ACEEU (Germany), Eline De Koning, FIRDA (Netherlands).