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Department for International Cooperation
Folkuniversitetet, Uppsala
Address:Bergsbrunnagatan 1
75323 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone:018-68 00 60
Email:ali.rashidi@folkuniversitetet.se
PRESS RELEASE
15.10.15
FOLKUNIVERSITETET WILL PARTICIPATE IN A DAPHNE PROJECT FOR ECONOMIC
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN
Folkuniversitetet will participate in “WE GO!” - 2 year DAPHNE project on economic
empowerment of women along with other 10 European partners.
“WE GO!Women Economic-independence & Growth Opportunity” project aims to strengthen
support services for women victims of domestic violence in Europe, with a particular regard
to training and advisory services that shelters/women’s centres offer to these victims. It
focuses on the capacity building of trainers and officers of these centres and the development
of new methods/responses to address the lack of economic alternatives for women victims.
Thanks to WE GO!, centres will become more responsive to economic needs of victims, who
will be able to exit situation of violence as a result of being empowered.
“We’ve been working on the whole series of European projects on empowerment of women,
adult education and labour market inclusion. We’re highly interested in the project and will
contribute with our expertise as much as we can”, - says Yevgeniya Averhed, the deputy
director of Department for International Cooperation of Folkuniversitetet.
FU-Uppsala has a long tradition of successfully introducing new teaching methods into adult
education including the latest developments in ICT. FU-Uppsala offers both formal and non-
formal education for public authorities, enterprises and individuals. The organisation is
focused on the development of interventions that addresses social issues for various
disadvantaged target groups in order to promote social/labour market inclusion. .
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Contact:Yevgeniya Averhed
Phone:+46 18 68 00 36, email: yevgeniya.averhed@folkuniversitetet.se

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