The most concrete outcome of our Erasmus+ training wasn’t a certificate. Each participant left Latvia with a project concept and a plan to apply safety, inclusion, and community education in her own field. We developed six concepts: five individually and one jointly. Here they are, with their authors.
1. Nature on the Move / Inclusive Smart Mobility 2026
Laura Maria Rajala
A Kerava mobility model designed with residents, not for them. Co-design workshops with biodiversity mapping, intergenerational “BuddyWalk & Ride” eco-walks, outdoor learning under the name Nature on the Move, and a multilingual awareness campaign. Target groups: young people, older adults, families, and newcomers. Proposed partners: the City of Kerava, Loisto Settlement, and the University of Helsinki.
2. Women’s Activities with Flower Recycling
Oksana Scaldina
Creative and vocational workshops for women in which discarded flowers from florists, events and markets are turned into dried arrangements, natural dyes and handmade products. The concept combines three things Femina cares about: low-threshold activity for women outside the labour market, a small income opportunity, and an environmental message about waste. Proposed partners: local florists and event venues as suppliers of materials, community centres as venues, and municipality / NGO for outreach.
3. Evergreen: The Healing Power of Nature
Sara Mashhadi
A community programme for older people in Iranian cities: light group exercise in parks, flowerpot workshops, storytelling circles, and community exhibitions of seniors’ crafts, with proceeds going to medicine and assistive tools for elderly people in need. It addresses isolation, low physical activity, and the lack of inclusive green public space with municipalities, students, and community centres as partners.
4. Justice Guardians: Empowering Women in Pakistan’s Judiciary
Isma Maqbool
Women make up under 6% of Pakistan’s superior judiciary, and safety is one of the reasons. The concept combines a “Secure Chambers” initiative (physical and digital security, a confidential hotline), a “Judicial Sisterhood” mentoring network, gender-sensitivity training for court staff and law enforcement, and a public campaign, Her Bench, Our Justice. Of the six concepts, this is the one that applies safety as a precondition for women’s leadership most directly.
5. Riga Green Week: Get to Know Our Biodiversity
Wendy Moya
Sponsored environmental campaigns for young people aged 16–25: clean-ups, urban greening, and biodiversity monitoring combined with green-skills training, mentoring, and citizen science. The aim is employability and community at the same time measured in participants, square metres cleaned, hours worked, and data delivered to municipal biodiversity reports.
6. Resilience & Well-being: Strengthening Psychological Support for Women Leaders
Ganna Oikkonen
The concept that most closely aligns with Femina’s work. Femina already offers free consultations with professional psychologists to its members; this concept turns that one-off service into a structured model: staff training in psychological first aid, group facilitation, and burnout prevention; a new module, Psychological Resilience and Well-being for Women Leaders, embedded in Femina’s leadership curricula; an online self-help toolkit for women in remote areas; and partnerships with European organisations working on psychosocial support. It is written as the natural follow-up to the current Erasmus+ project, and it is the basis for Femina’s next application.
The six concepts are at different stages some are plans, some already feed into Femina’s activities. We will report on their progress on this site.
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