Women on Board

Women on Board addresses the significant underrepresentation of women in blue economy professions, including but not limited to shipping, fishing, port engineering, boating, logisitcs, and marine energy sectors. This gender imbalance limits women's personal and professional opportunities, reducing access to quality employment and hindering the competitiveness, innovative capacity and positive social impact of enterprises operatting within the broader nexus of the blue economy.

Upon this backdrop, the project focuses on breaking prevalent gender stereotypes, through increasing female representation in blue economy training programs and creating safer, more inclusive workplace environments in the blue economy. To do so, Project Partners and their stakeholders will exchange experiences and share good practices with the aim to develop and suggest effective policy responses that can close the gender gap in blue economy training and employment, and aleviate barriers to womens' participation in blue economy professions, by actively promoting the integration of women into relevant professions, and increase their involvement in the bottom-up development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs impacting the broader blue economy sector.

This aligns with Policy Objective 4: "A More Social Europe," specifically targeting the effectiveness and inclusiveness of the labor market, ensuring equal access to quality employment, and fostering a more inclusive social economy.