Mobile Learning Application for Handicraft Women to Start Work from their Home Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mobile Learning Application for Handicraft Women to Start Work from their 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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Our DREAMY m-LEARNING prj successfully fulfilled the aims & instructions of the application form & the initial prj activities & objectives have been carried out & reached to its final aims successfully & where our prj’s aims were;
• to help women who acquire skills & sustainable employment patterns while still continuing to sell their products in traditional ways to support their families,
• to help women who have acquired e- skills & learned to market & sell a product thru Internet & may also help other members of the family (their fathers,children, husbands) to develop their smart phone skills and/or market their products.

Our target group is women with lower educational attainment who produce handicraft from their home.The aim is to help them to acquire mobile-digital & entrepreneurial skills for them to sell their handicrafts in digital markets by using smart phones efficiently.According to this aim,we developed a mobile app which is easy to understand & easy to use;for Android & iOS operating systems,web based interface bridging mobile app’s to m-learning portal.

Mobile learning platform included innovative & easy to use,based on “learning while practicing” principle for the low-educated women & also simple&understandable way while taking into account the socio-cultural&educational status of the target groups.

The content of the mobile app has been prepared in all languages &our m-training courses were a source for mobile app as well as for the handbook that was produced in the prj.While making the translations of the m-training courses,national priorities were also inserted in the modules for the mobile app.

Aims were to motivate the interest & persistence of low-educated women,by using instructional teaching approach.Each module contained a short way of teaching material on the way to sell their goods thru internet,they were simple,straightforward,self-paced introductions. Women access the information about any topic by pressing the keys on that topic’s name.At this stage,women just follows the instructions & obeying what is said on the mobile app, she will be successful in selling her handmades successfully.By means of this platform,they can easily access the information they require.

By the established training program,low-educated women are now able to use these training modules to start up their own businesses.We realized our goal where it was to give them a solid foundation thru a very simple path.

So,we excellently fulfilled our aim in our prj,giving entrepreneurial attitudes thru efficiently using smart phones of participated women for to sell their handicrafts in digital markets as entrepreneurs.In parallel with,we rose public awareness thru dissemination activities, workshop & other activities & also achieved sustainable impact of the prj results after funding.We performed & are still performing our dissemination activities thru meetings,seminars,conferences,face-to-face discussions,MEs & news at the newspapers, magazines & internet medias.As from the dissemination activities,we see that our prj has a great interest from the participants & we believe that,our prj will have a great impact on our target group in the future also.

The outputs we prepared in the scope of our prj are very unique & there is no similar prj performed upto now so it will be very beneficial for the users of our prj.

The IO’s in our prj are,
• SOTA (National rep,State of the Art),
• Dreamy m-Learning Mobile app,
The links are as follows:
Android Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.dcnet.dreamymlearning
iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1450258839
• Dreamy m-Training courses,
• Dreamy m-Learning web portal, www.dreamy-m-learning.org
• Dreamy m-Learning handbook,

Our consortium included 8 partners whereas they were;1 association (AFIK),1 National Public Body (AFAS) 2 Univ.(HBVU & LJUB),3 SME’s (ORKON,DANMAR & GUIMEL)&1 school/Institute/Educational Centre (IDEC)which constituted a variety of different organisation types meaning that we were able to share our different point of views & perspectives about the prj in many ways.Also the partner countries are from different areas of Europe,being from the north,east,west&south of Europe,almost from different geography & cultures of Europe which again brought different ideas to the prj & this was the very creative & innovative side for our prj.
And the sharing of the tasks in the partnership was as follows &whereas we applied our activities successfully by dividing our working packages as the following:
A1 (Prj Organisation & Management) AFIKAD+ORKON
A2 (Develop.of the m-Training Course & State of Art SOTA)HBVU+LJUB
A3 (Develop.of Mobile App) DANMAR+LJUB
A4 (Setting up the interactive webpage) ORKON+GUIMEL
A5 (Develop.of Dreamy m-Learning Handbook)LJUB+GUIMEL
A6 (Testing of the Products & Monitoring & Evaluation of the Prj) IDEC
A7 (Dissemination,Exploitation & Sustainability of the Prj)GUIMEL+AFAS

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 198906 Eur

Project Coordinator

Afyonkarahisar Is Kadinlari Dernegi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Afyonkarahisar Aile Calisma ve Sosyal Hizmetler Il Mudurlugu
• UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
• ORKON INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING TRAINING CONSULTING CO.INC.
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• GUIMEL
• ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELI UNIVERSITESI
• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA