📍 What are Empowerment Capabilities, and why do they matter?
Everyone deserves a fair chance to learn, grow, and access meaningful work. But not everyone starts from the same place.
That’s why DIAMOND Empower is working to understand the deeper factors, called empowerment capabilities, that affect how people approach learning and make decisions about their future.
These capabilities include things like:
- Feeling confident in your ability to succeed
- Having access to learning support and resources
- Being open to change and new challenges
- Knowing how to move forward even when things feel uncertain
🔎 How does DIAMOND Empower study this?
The Universität Wien has been leading the work to build tools for empowerment capabilities with the following activities:
- We mapped out common drivers and barriers for these empowerment capabilities through research and surveys with grassroots communities.
- Then, the partners used behavioral studies to understand how different learners think, learn, and stay motivated.
- Other partners tested how empowerment affects performance in real-life training, both online and in person.
The partners Aarhus Universitet, Universidad de Burgos, Fundacja Obiektywna, Proportional Message Associacao, Ente Morale Giacomo Feltrinelli per l’incremento Dell’Istruzione Tecnica, Youth Power Germany EV, & Fundación Miradas worked on this process.
All of this helps DIAMOND shape inclusive, evidence-based tools like the ᴱGROW Index and MOVEᴱ, so that the support people get is actually grounded in how they learn best.
Learn more: https://diamond-empower.eu/
