FLY-IN

The results, taking into account the perspective of the young women from different geographical contexts, revealed that young NEETs and those with a migrant background, seem to have less knowledge of financial literacy and more need to be trained in this field in order to increase their opportunities for social inclusion, financial independence, and employability opportunities. The survey results are in line with research carried out in the EU and worldwide, revealing that young and NEET women, as well as women of disadvantaged groups -mainly migrants (22.3 million non-EU citizens are living in the EU, Eurostat, 2018) often have less access to financial knowledge and formal financial products compared to men (OECD, 2012; Batsaikhan et al, 2018; Bruegel, 2018). Indeed, even though gender equality in terms of economic and financial opportunities is becoming increasingly relevant at both national and international levels, as a way to improve women’s financial empowerment, the gender gap in financial literacy still remains unbridged. According to the 5th Sustainable Development Goal of the UN (2019), women have the right for equal access to education, decent work, and representation in economic decision-making processes that will enable them to fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large and being financially literate comes to play an invaluable part to that. But, according to Bruegel (2018) despite its important role, financial literacy is not included in the school curricula, and, therefore, non-formal and life-long learning processes and solutions should be considered after the school cycle is completed. Promoting the involvement and coordination among relevant stakeholders (financial institutions, youth centres and educational organisations involved with youth, NEETs, migrants, and women empowerment in the EU) could contribute to the development of well-organised training programs on financial literacy for young women to increase their basic skills and key competences to keep up with the increasing complexity of the financial markets and acquire the financial knowledge, confidence, and ability to effectively participate in economic activities and financial decision-making, both within and outside their households. In this context, FLY-IN project will be an effort to develop an educational program to train-the-youth workers coming from financial institutions, youth centres and educational organisations involved with youth, NEETs, migrants, and women empowerment to train young women with a double-disadvantage (NEET with a migrant background) to become financially literate. Therefore, we propose a project with the following objectives: *To develop an innovative training program for youth workers, to give them the tools, guidance, and proper support to train young NEET women with a migrant background in Financial Literacy
*To directly train youth workers in Financial Literacy who in turn, will train young NEET women with a migrant background, in order to enhance and further the future effect of those trainings. International cooperation of partners from Sweden, UK, Cyprus, Greece and N. Macedonia within the framework of this project is an important factor that will allow them to develop and present a comprehensive training program for young NEET women with migrant background to become financially literate. The needs assessment carried out through the contribution of all partners will be invaluable in the sense that it will present trans-European recommendations. Another important aspect is the possibility for youth workers to meet, exchange experiences, and concerns. Furthermore, through connecting the partners with a range of stakeholders we anticipate that a further result will be a peer network of experts in the field of financial literacy who can continue to work and collaborate together after the completion of the project. The partnership created will have developed an important network of stakeholders and associated partners, who will be involved in the project enhancing the dissemination extent and the project impact