Increasing hobby based ICT skills of inactive women and housewives at home Erasmus Project

Project Title

Increasing hobby based ICT skills of inactive women and housewives at 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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

@homeWork targets inactive women and housewives for developing their skills in utilising smart phones, tablets and computers for giving them the opportunity to develop their competencies on fashion design as a hobby. Two phase skills’ development online training is enhanced by employing avatars.Thus the project has several tools to achieve its goal: Develop a learning content to boost skills of inactive women in new technologies to let them better utilise smart phones, tablets and PCs, develop a m-Learning content to guide them to develop their competencies in fashion design for hobby purposes, develop an online guide where they can utilise Web and social media for their fashion design hobby, end up with scalable and expandable platform compatible with all existing and upcoming technology, a/v, gaming supported with avatars e-Training and e-Guiding content. Project outputs were disseminated mostly via strong women NGOs active at European level, peer to peer workshops with more NGOs to boost the exploitation. Results were tested during multiplier events and their expand-ability to other hobby areas compatible to the project idea was validated.

Project concentrates on inactive women, who are classified neither as employed nor as unemployed; in other words, who are capable of being employed but not seeking for a job because of various personal or family responsibilities and reasons. Young women taking care of their newly born babies are one of the significant examples of this target group. Project concerns developing hobbies of this target group, because hobbies are extremely important in everybody’s lives; and even more important for those who are forced to stay at home, to relieve stress and boredom, keep away from depression and keep youthful.

Women have a natural talent towards fashion and majority of women enjoy the design implicitly; when they decorate their houses, when they dress on; when when they do make up, and many more. To make this activity better organised, project supports them to utilise existing technological tools, mobiles, tablets as well as social media and Web based tools for developing their competencies and enjoy their hobbies. This surely affected their overall skills in a very positive manner and made them more compatible with high speed growing technology.

Coordinator AGE has a great experience in hobby purposed courses,National research center INCSMPS has an experience on target group as well as social needs for self-development at EU scale, Europe wide Women NGO ZARIF has a wide women associations network in Europe, and disseminates the project within European women NGOs, ICT and e-VET developer e-BL is offering state of the art technological Web based solutions to the project and do a user friendly training infrastructure, world leader shoe industry leader union CTCP who are offering extensive fashion design at every level is sharing their experiences, one of the most European oriented women organizations in Turkey, TAKIDD is spreading the project in their network in Turkey and other Turkish republics, Central Europe VET oriented foundation MOJMIR is supporting the content development.

More ICT oriented women population was the aim, by encouraging them to use recent technology for their hobbies, more healthy inactive women, who are better prepared to meet with working life in future, in case they decide to resume as they will develop their ICT skills via their hobbies. This will help to self-development of inactive women in a long run too and motivating more ICT based hobbies to grow.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 222438,34 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ankara Olgunlasma Enstitüsü & Country: TR

Project Partners

• EBL Elektronik Bilgi Bilisim ve Mesleki Egitim Hizmetleri Ltd. Sti.
• Zdruzenie aktivnych a talentovanych zien realizujucich fungujucu karieru – ZARIF
• Nadácia Mojmír
• TUM AVRUPA KADINLARI KULTUREL ISBIRLIGI VE DAYANISMA DERNEGI
• CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE CALCADO DE PORTUGAL
• INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE STIINTIFICA IN DOMENIUL MUNCII SI PROTECTIEI SOCIALE