ICT in Daily Life and E-Learning in Adult Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

ICT in Daily Life and E-Learning in Adult Education

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

In the Project, different type of organizations in the European Union collaborated to fight digital illiteracy among adults and youth who are not able to use or unaware about ICT in daily life and who belong to vulnerable social groups like school drop outs, immigrants and women in order to equip them with the skills needed to use digital technology. We live in a world today where using digital technologies and accessing information via internet is becoming increasingly necessary, using services like health and education, attaining jobs, connecting friends, relatives and colleagues, sharing moments, ideas and experience, expanding innovation and remaining globally competitive. It was thought that target group are struggling to gain basic access to technology because of various reasons and ways. In this respect by providing different activities people equipped with the basic digital skills to get the advantages of being digital and necessary skills to face the “online” challenge. Throughout the Project period, basic computer knowledge, internet usage, tablets and their applications for the specified purposes were the main subjects of the activities with the help of seminars, meetings, courses, competitions and exhibitions. The partnership also aimed to support people by using web tools to socialize with other EU citizens online and personal (through mobilities). They had new friends, saw different cultures and lives. It gave them a chance reduce their loneliness and in some ways their isolation and helped to improve social inclusion.The project also enabled different organizations in EU to share best practice, their expertise and experience in supporting target group to face challenges brought about by online technology.
The main target was to work with people from vulnerable social groups who do not have or lack the skills to stay active online. They provided with training which enabled them to operate a PC, use the internet and other relevant software such as communication software (Skype, Facebook, etc). With the help of local and international activities, people shared experiences, connectted with each other and learned new cultures. With project activities, partners collaborated to remove the problems to make digital technologies and internet more accessible to the target group and attractive on both a non formal and informal basis. On personal level the learners got the chance to raise their self- esteem by fighting with digital illiteracy by improving their knowledge. They had the opportunity to develope contemporary communication skills to catch the world, to communicate and to share.
Project activities stimulated awareness of the possibilities of learning digital world, made them user instead of just being watchers. The projectgave a chance to see the richness and possibilities of digital world to them. Project participants had also chances to improve their language skills with language course activities. Projects participants saw the similarities and differences of cultures. On national level partner organizations addressed and informed project target groups about project activities; inviting people to join in local workshops. On international level online interactive E-Learning modules about ICT have been the most effective and benficial side of the project. The E-Learning Modules which were based on learning by doing and scenario based learning have been used not only by EU citizens but also by people who are from different countries of the world because of the structure of the Modules which are easy to use and educational. Also the Modules have been prepared in 8 different languages, so it helped the increase the number of people that the Project targeted. The modules will be active for years and the number of the beneficiaries will be dublicated in years.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236442,6 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sincan Halk Egitim Merkezi ve ASO & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NR. 95
• Stowarzyszenie Zalasowian
• Verein für Inklusion und Soziale Arbeit e.V.
• Molkoms Folkhögskola
• CEPER FUENSANTA
• Oslo Voksenopplæring Skullerud