education @home Erasmus Project

Project Title

education @home

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

Project Summary

Parents of all cultures are interested in ensuring that their children can develop well, learn successfully at school and grow up healthy.
Every year in Europe, over 3.7 million children are born into a densely populated media world, whose development involves an unstoppable media influence. From our point of view, this is the greatest challenge in the history of education, combined with a constant task of preventive debate.
The European Parliament is also aware of this; it has already called for 2012: “to exhaust all possibilities in protecting children in the digital world and to systematically train parents”. Parents are therefore the direct target group in @home.
The need for European parental education with regard to their own media competence, but especially their media education, is growing across borders. Children and young people today are not only at home earlier and earlier in digital media and find more and more complex online worlds and possibilities. It should also be emphasised that, unlike in the real world, consumption is beyond parental control and parents today often have little media knowledge and media competence. Children quickly realise that they are superior to their parents in this area. A family problem develops in view of the failure of resigned parents to set limits and the increasing helplessness experienced, which as a permanent field of conflict has an impact on family life. Although this increasing need for parental education exists, the form of support that parents need seems to be changing. Parents’ evenings at schools are declining and online seminar rooms are in demand. Why? There is no need to travel to school and additional childcare does not have to be financed and organised. Anonymity is given, which can be helpful especially for sensitive topics. Digital learning materials also have the advantage of being able to respond to the increasingly different prerequisites, experiences and interests of learners. With digital media learning can be made even more active and individual.
Parental education in Europe today should therefore increasingly take place freely, i.e. in non-institutionalised contexts and, since the possibility of learning with new media, also independently of time and place.
With the implementation of @home, involving politics, the community and parents themselves, we in a consortium of AT, BG, GR, SI and DE are facing this sustainable educational task with a double strategy, which on the one hand builds on the teaching of instrumental-qualifying skills, and on the other hand uses above all a critically reflected approach. The declared aim of “@home” is to combine both and integrate them into the social context of media education in the family.
The following results were achieved in the implementation:
1. systematic exploration as a needs analysis: what form of support do parents in Europe need, and on what issues?
2. a multilingual digital parents’ consultation in the form of a web-based APP “You, Media and Me – YouMMe” in 7 languages including English with the following features:
– 12 educational films to support the parents’ own critically reflected handling of media
– Working materials to teach basic skills. Originally, a monthly meeting of experts was also planned, which could not take place as planned due to the special situation during the Covid 19 pandemic. Instead, an additional “Dictionary” was created in which important terms of media education in the Länder were collected and explained to parents.
3. monthly question memory: frequently asked questions from parents, answered by the team
4. The originally planned five stakeholder round tables and the final symposium in Brussels could not take place as intended. They were partly conducted virtually, the final symposium was adapted and held as a hybrid event in Graz.
The research situation, the view and the experience in Europe are different, therefore we need transnational learning in professional exchange, in search of possible solutions. With the implementation of “@home” we are actively shaping the European cross-sectional topic: “Media Literacy Education” through interpersonal, intercultural and social competences in Europe.
Since this educational topic is still very young due to rapid growth, we have a lot of catching up to do in Europe in the field of prevention. A political project advisory board under the direction of the patron Eckhart Pols will open doors and ensure the transfer of all results in the project. In this way, we will ensure that this social education topic has a lasting effect on families.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 209139 Eur

Project Coordinator

RECHT IN EUROPA EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE
• OSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FUR KINDERPHILOSOPHIE
• EDUCOMMART SIMIO SINANTISIS EKPEDEVSIS KE DIMIOURGIAS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETERIA
• Stiftung Medien- und Onlinesucht
• PCO – Poklicni center Obala