Tools to grow your business
Resources
Project Outputs
Practical, free tools to support your next step as a woman entrepreneur or professional.
Here you can explore all the practical tools created in the VoWoCo project to support your journey as a woman entrepreneur, leader or career‑changer. Every resource is easy to understand, free to access, and built on real needs shared by women from all partner countries.
research & insight
Understanding Your Context
Research report on women entrepreneurs’ skills and needs – a short, accessible overview of which skills are most often missing on women’s entrepreneurial journeys across different countries and sectors.
Skill Matrix – a clear “skills map” that helps you identify where upskilling or reskilling would be most beneficial for you.
Avaliable contents
Upskilling and reskilling short modules – videos, presentations, mini activities and self‑assessment tests focused on concrete skills (e.g. time management, digital tools, business planning).
Online learning platform (Moodle) – a flexible, self‑paced learning space where, after registration, you can access all modules in several languages and track your own progress.
Available contents
- A new digital training environment, available from the second half of 2026.
skills for growth
Online Training Modules and Learning Platform
coaching toolkit
Mentoring Guide and Mentor Training
Mentoring Guide – a practical handbook for our mentors and mentees that explains step by step how the VoWoCo Co‑Creation mentoring model works and how you can develop new business ideas together.
Online mentor training – a structured programme for our mentors, covering topics such as effective communication, inclusive leadership and how to support mentees working together.
Available contents
- VoWoCo Creation - Mentor Programme starts in February 2027
Co‑created business plans – 12 innovative business plans developed by our mentors and mentee pairs during the programme, offering inspiration for planning or rethinking your own venture.
Pitch Party highlights – stories and key takeaways from the best teams, showing how they turned ideas into market‑ready concepts through collaboration and support.
Available contents
- VoWoCo Creation - Mentor Programme starts in February 2027
- The VoWoCo Pitch Party will be held in September 2027
stories of impact
Co‑Created Business Plans and Success Stories
change-making tools
Policy Recommendations and Tools for Ecosystem Actors
Policy recommendation on upskilling and reskilling – a concise set of suggestions for policymakers and chambers on how to better support women entrepreneurs in skills development and mentoring.
Institutions’ toolbox – a collection of good practices that universities, chambers and organisations can use to design or strengthen their own programmes for women’s entrepreneurship.
Available contents
- Focus Group Report - Coming Soon
- Skill Matrix - Coming Soon
- Executive Report - Coming Soon
- Policy Recommendations - Coming in January 2028
Who can benefit from VoWoCo resources?
- Women entrepreneurs and freelancers who want to update their skills, rethink their business model or explore new markets.
- Women in career transition (e.g. after maternity leave, between jobs or changing profession) who need clear guidance, skills and mentoring to take the next step.
- Mentors, trainers and support organisations looking for structured tools, training content and a tested mentoring model tailored to women’s realities.
- Universities, chambers and policy makers interested in evidence‑based recommendations to better support women in entrepreneurship and leadership.
Curious how these resources are created in practice?
See how VoWoCo works from research to training and mentoring.
