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Your experience is a strength. Let's grow it together.

Midlife and migration are a life stage full of experience, skills and strength. Second Bloom creates space for migrant women aged 40+ to learn together, care for their wellbeing, and grow into leaders in their communities.

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About

What is Second Bloom?

Second Bloom is a one-year European project (September 2026 to August 2027) run by three organisations in Finland, Greece and Denmark.

Many women who move to a new country in midlife carry deep knowledge and life experience. They also face extra barriers to learning, work and community life, such as language, age stereotypes, health changes and caring duties.

We believe wellbeing is a starting point, not an extra. When women feel supported in body and mind, they can take part, learn and lead.

Together with migrant women, we are creating a training programme where participants start as learners and become peer facilitators and wellbeing leaders in their own communities.

Project description Second Bloom: Migrant Women 40+ as Community Wellbeing Leaders in Europe is an Erasmus+ adult education project implemented in Finland, Greece and Denmark. It develops and pilots a practical 40-hour peer-facilitator training model for migrant women aged 40+. The project combines life-stage-sensitive wellbeing, positive ageing, confidence-building, facilitation skills and community leadership. Through needs analysis, co-creation and national pilots, the partnership will create a validated open-access toolkit that adult education providers, migrant-support organisations and community initiatives can adapt to their own contexts.
Happening now · November 2026

We are listening first

Before we design anything, we want to hear from you. In November we are talking with migrant women aged 40+ and with organisations in Denmark, Finland and Greece. What you tell us will shape what the training covers and how it works.

Are you a migrant woman aged 40+?

Join a short conversation, one to one or in a small group. We'd like to hear what helps you feel well, what makes it hard to take part, and what you would like to learn or share.

I'd like to take part

Do you work with migrant women?

If your organisation, network or community group works with women from migrant backgrounds, we'd love to learn from your experience and hear what you see in your work.

Talk with us

Taking part is voluntary and free. You decide what you share, and we will never ask about your residence status.

Who it's for

Is Second Bloom for you?

Second Bloom is for women who:

  • are 40 or older
  • have moved to Denmark, Finland or Greece from another country
  • want to connect with other women, care for their wellbeing, and share what they know

You don't need any qualifications or experience. You bring your life experience, and that's what matters.

What we're building

A 40-hour training programme

We are designing the programme together with migrant women in all three countries. It will mix in-person sessions, online sessions and self-study.

Wellbeing in midlife

Understanding the changes of this life stage, including stress, sleep, menopause and energy, and finding what helps.

Confidence and age

Noticing and questioning the messages we've absorbed about age and women, and reconnecting with our strengths.

Leading a group

Facilitation, communication and group skills, including how to hold a safe, respectful circle.

Peer learning and support

Learning from each other, running peer-led sessions, and knowing where to find further help in the community.

Timeline

How the project unfolds

  • Autumn 2026 NowListening: conversations with women and organisations
  • December 2026The training programme is finalised
  • January – June 2027Groups in Denmark, Finland and Greece
  • June 2027Sharing workshop in Copenhagen
  • August 2027European final event in Finland
In Denmark

Join the group in Denmark

Registration opens in December 2026

In early 2027 we will run a free Second Bloom group in Copenhagen for about 15 women. Together you will learn, share and practise leading peer sessions of your own.

Write to us now and we'll let you know as soon as registration opens.

Tell me when it opens

We only need your name and how to reach you. We will never ask about your residence status.

Cost
Free
When
Starting January 2027
Where
Copenhagen, with some sessions online
Language
English, with support for other languages where possible
Group size
About 15 women
Partners

Who we are

Finland

MediAlena

Project coordinator

Designs and runs non-formal learning programmes for migrant and marginalised women, with a focus on inclusion, confidence and community participation.

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Greece

Association of Women over 40 / The A40s

A non-profit with more than 4,000 members, based on Serifos with a branch in Athens. Works on positive ageing, menopause awareness and challenging age stereotypes about women. Member of AGE Platform Europe.

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Denmark

Metamorphoses of Love

Designs participatory, trauma-informed adult learning programmes and facilitation training. Leads the design of the Second Bloom training programme and runs the Danish group.

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Results

Free for everyone

Everything we create, including the training programme, session plans and tools, will be free to use and share under an open licence. Materials will appear here as they are ready.

Contact

Get in touch

Questions about Second Bloom in Denmark? Write to Monique at Metamorphoses of Love.

magic@moniqueer.space