Good practice Imported

MATAPE

Czechia · Holice · Regional · See the Czechia profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 80% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Women returning to working life after maternity leave got a helping hand from an ESF-backed initiative. The MATAPE project, based in Holice in the Czech Republic, also worked with about 100 local employers to raise awareness of work/life balance issues. AIM: The project MATAPE’s

80%

Participants reporting improved communication skills and self-confidence

103 people

Women reached (2012-2015)

Details

Maturity: Discontinued
Promoter: Pardubice Regional Charity — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ended
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 103
Period: 2012-08-31 – 2015-05-31
Region (NUTS): CZ05
Keywords: Reentering work, maternity, ICT training, empowerment

Context

MATAPE, an ESF-backed project in Holice, Czech Republic (2012-2015), combined personal-development coaching, ICT training (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Apps) and English classes to help mothers returning from long maternity leave re-enter the labour market, while also running gender audits with roughly 100 local employers.

Results

80% of participants reported that MATAPE improved their communication skills and self-confidence; the project reached 103 women.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Low (< €50k) — ESF co-financed; scale of budget not disclosed in source material.
Time to results: Medium (1–3 years) — Ran August 2012 to May 2015; project has since ended.
Staffing & skills: Coaches (up to 5 hours individual coaching per participant), Regional Informational and Consultancy Center Pardubice

Conditions for success

Combining personal-development coaching with concrete ICT/office-software training
Parallel employer-side gender audits to shift workplace flexibility norms