Smart APPs for Adults Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Smart APPs for Adults 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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

SAFE project was carried out by four organizations in Turkey, Portugal, Spain and Poland Cooperation. Project was completed successfully by the cooperation of organizations which are providing adult training and ICT solutions. Nowadays, the importance of technology adaption in education is increased due to rapildy developing technology. With this rapid development, computers have shrunk into our pockets and smart phones have become an indispensable part of our lives.

The aim of the SAFE Project is to develop digital skills of adult students and teachers and making trainings more qualified. Within this scope, project partners conducted a extensive research regarding mobile applications by checking all the existing applications and results was shared with the target audience. This posts are shared on www.smartapps4you.eu website and social media accounts. For the trainees who had no previos experience of using computers, a variety of online courses were taught in order to provide a different learning concepts.

First, “Mobile application development” course for the trainers which was held in Poland. After that, those trainers started to teach this course in their own countries for other trainers and adult trainees. The questionnaires were developed and applied to the trainees in order to determine the readiness levels of the trainees before the trainings. Within the scope of this courses, 160 adult trainees and 183 trainers are trained.

Within the scope of “intellectuel output”, 25 mobile applications are developed which are used for adult trainers and uploaded to Google Play Store and project website. For better project outputs, cooperations made with universities and meetings, workshops were held as well as brochure and poster preparation. During the project, 30 dissemination events were held.

At the end of the project process, partner organizations also announced project to their local organizations. Project was completed with a final event where the project activities were introduced, the use of technology in adult training was discussed, new ideas were put forward and good practices were also shared.

SAFE Project can be considered as an original project as a result of working in a current and needed area and it is also thought that it will lead to new projects in this field.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70141,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

AVCILAR HALK EGITIM MERKEZI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas da Caparica
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• CEPA Comarca Nordeste de Tenerife