Integrated practical e-training & e-guiding for innovative women for facilitating their patent applications Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrated practical e-training & e-guiding for innovative women for facilitating their patent applications

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Open and distance learning; Research and innovation

Project Summary

The aim of the project ip4women is to improve gender balance and reduce the gender gap in patenting of inventions. Statistics show a gender gap in patent applications between female and male patent applicants. This highlights a contradiction since the people within academic and scientist area are almost equal from gender point of view, especially Ph.D. owners level and this equality should be reflected in patent applications.

The project consortium approached this challenge by introducing a web based platform with patent e-mentoring concept training both mentors and mentees. Female inventors were e-trained and/or e-mentored to increase their abilities and potential of applying patent applications and the platform supplies also more enhanced initial and continuous training for those who would want to be a patent e-mentors for women in work- based environment. The project started with performing a user need study in order to provide a platform with content adapted to the target group. The platform with it’s content was presented in several workshops and continuously improved. The aim was to take the leap from mentoring to e-mentoring and trigger the users to digest the content by providing content in a text format adapted for reading online and additionally adding avatar for only listening to the content.

The ip4women project is now offering several results contained in the platform and Erasmus+ Projects’ Results platform as appropriate:- IPR & patenting practical multi-level e-learning “content need” analysis, via surveys through the aid of partner women NGOs in all project countries,- Multi-level IPR & patenting e-learning and e-guiding platform for e-Mentors as well as future patent applicants,- Online feedback system within the portal, model description report,- Testing report of the whole system, including mentor-mentee relations, individual information seekers responses, e-guiding performance by using above mentioned intelligent and interactive feedback toolkit. Whole system has been optimized by the use of these tools and aimed continuously to be improved by feedback of volunteer e-mentors for better sustainability of the complete ip4women system.
The partnership was combined in order to been established to be able to realise all this ip4women environment as:- Uppdragshuset [SE] – IPR and patent specialist SME and R/D performer, expert in Mentoring,- MINERVA [SE], ZARIF[SK], TAKIDD [TR], FPK [PL] – Women NGOs having direct access to target group from different scientific backgrounds, various expertises,- POINT [TR] – R/D performing SME expert in Mentoring, development of e-Learning infrastructures,- ITeE-PIB [PL] – R/D in VET having also various patent applicant practices,- MOJMIR [SK] – VET and entrepreneurship training.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 278395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Uppdragshuset AB & Country: SE

Project Partners

• POINT PROJE INSAAT TAAHHUT MUHENDISLIK VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
• Stiftelsen Minerva
• Nadácia Mojmír
• TUM AVRUPA KADINLARI KULTUREL ISBIRLIGI VE DAYANISMA DERNEGI
• SIEC BADAWCZA LUKASIEWICZ – INSTYTUT TECHNOLOGII EKSPLOATACJI
• Fundacja Europejskie Centrum Przedsiebiorczosci
• Zdruzenie aktivnych a talentovanych zien realizujucich fungujucu karieru – ZARIF