The project innovatively links two opportunities for women in the Leader regions ‘Nationalpark OÖ Kalkalpen’ and ‘Traunviertler Alpenvorland’: · Opportunity Digitalisation · Opportunity New Work by building a new competence network “Women’s Future – Digitalisation – New Work” with the participation of the target group and strategic partnerships. Such a project is so far unique in Austria and particularly socially innovative in terms of participatory openness to innovative processes and products. Objectives and target groups The overall objective is to reduce gender pay gaps. At the same time, the project aims at gender-responsive regional development by creating new places of learning and work as well as by exploiting synergies of cooperation, networking and exchange. The activities of the project relate both to the direct target group of women and to companies, organisations and initiatives as an indirect target group. Activities The Competence Network offers a new structure, resources and openness for the participatory development and implementation of concrete offers according to the needs of women. The project includes activities in 5 work packages: · WP 1 - Regional development: Strategies and concrete content · WP 2 - Competences: Training and coaching · WP 3 - Knowledge: Networking and cooperation · WP 4 – Anchoring: Public relations and sustainability · WP 5 – Project management: The Competence Network ‘Women’s Future – Digitalisation – New Work’, in cooperation with strategic partners, focuses on a multifaceted and needs-based empowerment of women in order to improve their income situation. Results of the project relate to (self-)empowerment, the reduction of horizontal and vertical segregation as well as the exploitation of the opportunities of digitalization and new work.