IoT for everyone Erasmus Project

Project Title

IoT for everyone

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Access for disadvantaged; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The idea of the Strategic Partnership project was born during one of the Erasmus+ seminars aimed at diversification of non-formal learning methods. Representatives of partner organizations are willing to share their common passion for new technologies and conduct a project useful for society. Every project group is unique, brings added value to the project. We are planning four internal trainings that will enforce the diversity of good practices among partner organisations.

The project goal is the creation of a workshops scenario for adult learners based on the idea of the Internet of Things. The project is innovative as we are going to use a simple educational tool TUNIOT for teaching low-skilled individuals about programming and the Internet. As educators promoting non-formal learning approach, we put a priority on learning by doing approach. Workshops’ participants will program an Internet board by themselves, create a simple electronic system and calibrate the device. The topic of the workshops (and the Internet of Things) refers to everyday issues, which is why we are counting on positive reception within our target group. ‘An intelligent plant’ will be made during the workshops, that can communicate its need of watering to the user, utilizing a humidity sensor and an Internet board.

We want to implement the project in purpose of popularizing non-formal learning approach and equalising differences in the access to adult learning opportunities as well as differences between generations. We believe that the access to diversified learning tools for adults in our countries is still not adequate. Free access to the completed educational tool and workshops scenario can partially change this status quo.

The project is divided into two stages: design of the tool and workshops’ scenario, as well as dissemination of the results of our work. We start working on the results with internal trainings which will allow us to construct the final product of good quality. In the first year three Transnational Project Meetings are planned. During the meetings we will not only intensively work on the results but also monitor the progress of current actions. We want to develop and translate the tool for programming learning and create a workshop scenario that includes the use of our educational tool.

In the second year each of the partners will lead at least one long-term workshop for a group disadvantaged in the field of technology. Our goal is to promote good practise of teaching adults, especially those in marginalised areas – municipalities located far from large cities. In order to increase the size of the target group, the prepared materials will be posted as an Open Educational Resource on European educational platforms in five languages: English, Polish, Arabic, Italian and Spanish.

The result of our work will be the creation of an innovative educational tool, as well as a gain of valuable experience in the field of international projects management and the key competences. As the project outcome, we can expect the increase of elderly people’s digital competences and in the long term a higher number of individuals interested in new technologies.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 40515 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fundacja Antares & Country: PL

Project Partners

• EURO-NET
• FARHAT HACHED INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND DEMOCRACY
• FUNDACION CIBERVOLUNTARIOS