Empowering Disadvantaged Women Via Distance Education for a Sustainable Development Project

Start: 01-01-2022 - End: 31-12-2023
Project Reference: 2022-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000083703
EU Grant: 213.920,00 €
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in adult education

Project Summary

Background

In the global agenda, women are regarded as the key driver for economic empowerment and employment.Gender equality(GE) is at the center of EU values and is supported within the legal and political framework. Our project is related to key policy areas such as employability, social inclusion and economic growth.

The project aims to provide special learning opportunities to low-skilled adults and women, to encourage women to education by removing the space and time limits, and by increasing women's economic empowerment/basic skills and competencies through distance education.

In particular, our project focuses on housewives, immigrant or refugee women with multiple disabilities who want to be educated but couldn’t, who are responsible for housework, sick and elderly care, who are out of the education system, who cannot work.

Project aims to increase the employability of the target group through an innovative method and continuously renewed open access online courses.

Our Strategic Partnership which consists of 6 different organizations from Norway, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Finland and Austria will contribute to addressing sectoral and horizontal priorities:

HORIZONTAL: Addressing digital transformation through enhancing digital readiness, flexibility and capacity

A user-friendly e-learning tool for women with fewer opportunities in our target group will improve their employability, digital and financial literacy, social and economic entrepreneurship.

ADU; It is our horizontal and sectoral priority to develop high-quality digital learning opportunities designed for fulfilling the needs of low-skilled adults, to create skills development pathways, to improve accessibility, to ensure diversity and inclusion, to promote Erasmus+ among all citizens and generations.

Our project focuses on creating online, open courses in the field of ICT skills, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, high quality innovative employability courses e-learning platform, mobile application to facilitate access to the platform in order to improve the skills and competencies of women with multiple disadvantages. The project aims to economically strengthen the target group, to contribute to gender equality through education and skills development, to integrate women into the economic system for sustainable living, to develop skills and competencies and to ensure their social inclusion.

The problem of gender inequality and low female employment is a global problem.Studies show that men's participation in non-formal education remains at 19.8% and women at 13.8%. ''In European countries, the proportion of women who report not being able to go on their education due to family-related, cost, time and place problems is twice that of men''(UNESCO;2020) ''Participation in adult education is 39% in Finland, Norway 27%, 12% in Germany, 10% in Turkey, 11% in Greece, while in Austria is 18%.and “Digital gender gap"is increasing sharply.(Eurostat) According to Norway(SSB) 2020; 6% of the population is immigrants and the unemployment rate for immigrant women is 7.5%.The female unemployment rate in Austria is 5.5% in 2021.The rate of non-Austrian citizens is 11.3%.Unemployment rate for immigrant women is %8.3 in Finland.The problem is same in Turkey,Greece and Germany but biger.

And Also;Gamification applications emerge as the new face of education in the information age.It is an ideal and innovative method for adults to achieve positive outcomes in education. According to the data of Google statistics, this new term is most actively used in adult education in Australia, America,Canada and the Netherlands .In other countries, studies on this area are needed.(Schacht 2019)Our aim is to bring this innovative method to our own institutions and European countries in the field of adult education.

We are going to use this innovative approach to produce e-content.

Objectives

Recent researches and statistics show that the integration of women with fewer opportunities in the Covid -19 process has slowed down not only in partner countries, but in most European countries. This fact is an opportunity to rethink strategy, be successful and find new ways. To increase the qualifications of more women, to develop their digital and financial literacy skills, to attract, encourage, educate and follow up in business life will provide important results for individuals, families, communities and society as a whole. In the needs analysis we conducted, it was concluded that women want a job but have traditional roles as childcare and chores, inadequacy in ICT skills and difficulties in accessing face-to-face education,time/space and transportation problems, lack of knowledge and skills as obstacles to their work.

Our goals regarding these needs are;

• To create an e-learning platform that can be integrated into the systems of institutions that will reduce women's poverty and are based on lifelong learning,
• To certify the compulsory domestic work done by women, to turn this disadvantaged situation into an advantage for them,
• To contribute to increasing the employment of disadvantaged groups through education.
• To develop a solution proposal for women's poverty,
• To provide easy access to education services with distance education modules for women who cannot attend face-to-face courses, and create certified programs
• To empower women in career, entrepreneurship, digital skills and financial literacy through education and ensuring their participation in social and economic life,
• To create a strong social education network for women.
• To encourage women to develop themselves, their economic empowerment, financial and social inclusion by providing professional and personal development trainings.
• Including women in the social network with user-friendly mobile applications and e-content.
• Contributing to digital transformation in the field of adult education,
• To create a user-friendly e learning platform,
• To give the participants the awareness of Europeanness and European citizenship and reshape our network via creating a bond.

The project focuses on creating online course modules in an innovative method to increase the employability of women with fewer opportunities. The target group of the project consists of women with multiple disadvantages (aged 20-65).

The ultimate goal of the project is to ensure the social and economic inclusion of the target group by increasing their basic level skills and qualifications, digital/financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills. The contents will be created by combining the methods of gamification, scenarioization and layered curriculum, which are an innovative method that has not yet become widespread in the field of adult education, but has proven effective.

Activities

Our results to achieve our goals;

IO1.E-learning platform(MOOC) /Mobile application

IO2; Employability Modules

IO3: Ict / Digital Literacy Module

IO4: Entrepreneurship / Financial-Literacy Module

- LTT JOINT STAFF TRAINING:One of the important milestones throughout the project life cycle is learning and teaching activities. Its formation of the final intellectual outcomes, as our project idea is oriented towards the application of an innovative method. It will take place in Greece with the participation of staff from all partner institutions.

TPMs: To continue the study and functioning of the project in a high quality, to establish effective communication between the partners and to minimize risk factors, transnational Project Meetings are essential.We will perform 5 face-to-face and 3 online TPMs.

- MULTIPLIER EVENTS:will be a step in achieving the final goal of the project. It will draw attention to the subject and the result report will be presented as a book.There will be 6 Multıplıer events locally and at the same time.

- STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS: It will take place every 6 months and it will spread the effect.

- PILOT APPLICATIONS: It will take place immediately after the completion of the intellectual outputs at the local level and with the participation of 50 women from each partner country.

-WOMEN'S MEETINGS: There will be local and neighborhood-based workshops and the target group will ensure that women also have social inclusion. It will include activities for the promotion and use of the E-Platform. One-day meetings will be held every 3 months through mentor teams to ensure the participation of women locally*Leaflets for women will be distributed through the local governments and relevant stakeholders. In addition to the project general dissemination plan, a detailed dissemination plan will be developed for women with multiple disadvantages.

LOCAL WORKSHOPS: It will be held locally every 3 months for the trainers.

*Studies on dissemination activities such as the project website, logo, social media accounts/ 6 project bulletins

Impact

We can collect the project results in two groups.;

A. Concrete Results;

INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS;

O1:E-PLATFORM: Open Access will be set up as a moodle system and will include all of our course modules and e-learning material. The courses will be gradually in the form of a layered education. model and the mobile application of the system will be developed. In addition to the platform e-learning materials, examples of good practice, success stories in the fields of entrepreneurship, literature, science and art in each partner's country

*Through Virtual Walks, which include the historical and natural beauties of the partner countries, women who cannot even leave their own homes will be able to get to know different cultures and will expand their horizons.

* Recreational suggestions(Greece)

O2:ONLINE EMPLOYABILITY MODULES:Course modules that will be produced with an innovative method will be uploaded to the platform. With gamification and layered teaching model;

* Cookery * Handicrafts, * Patient and elderly care, * Child Care

* Garden Care and Sapling Growing (Green Jobs) course modules

* Materials translated into partner countries' languages (with special software)

* Guide booklet containing measurement and evaluation criteria (for all course modules)

*Curriculum and Instructor Guide(TURKEY)

O3: MODULE FOR DEVELOPING ICT / DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS; Theoretical and game-based e-courses to develop the basic skills of the participants

ICT courses / Modules (Germany)

* Curriculum and Instructor Guide

O4: ENTREPRENEURSHIP/FINANCIAL LITERACY MODULE

*Course module that will focus on areas such as e-commerce applications / online sales courses and should be taken by all participants as the last step(Austria).

* Curriculum and Instructor Guide

vMOBILE APPLICATION: It will include applications that are open to everyone, which women with multiple disadvantages can easily use via telephone. This output will increase the accessibility and sustainability of all outputs.(Finland)

B. Abstract Results;

*Participating institutions, project partners and stakeholders will have an innovative adult education network and platform.

* Participating institutions and organizations will have a more innovative and inclusive educational competence.

*It will increase the employability and job qualifications of women

*A majority that has neither a job nor education, will be motivated in terms of social and economic participation. This motivated group will set an example to others and more women will be encouraged.

*Necessary knowledge, perspective and resources can be opened to discussion to deepen and develop educational studies.

*Contribution and awareness will be created to increase women's access to education and their participation in social and economic life, to facilitate access to resources, and to improve their status in society.

*Continuing education will be ensured with an e-learning platform that can be used in quarantine situations such as pandemics or natural disasters to be experienced globally, nationally or locally.

*Learning at the speed of individual learning

*Inclusion of women who are neither at work nor in education,

*Increased employability rate through online skill acquisition courses,

* The transformation of women's compulsory unpaid in-house chores into economic surplus value

* Increased motivation and social inclusion of women,

GENERALLY;

* We will have an online education network that will increase employability, free of charge and open to all, ready for the use of not only partner institutions, but also institutions providing adult education.

* Active and democratic participation in society and economic surplus value will be created.

*It will contribute to the achievement of the EU 2030 targets,

*In the long run, the project will contribute to gender equality.

*Contribution to the European strategy's target of removing 20 million people from poverty, social exclusion and a 75% employment rate

Coordinator:

• Prios Vest AS - Norway

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• ARDA Beratung & Bildung GmbH - Germany
• MERSIN UNIVERSITESI - Türkiye
• VIENNA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION VOLUNTEERS - Austria

Smart Agriculture Smart Farmer

Start: 31-12-2022 - End: 30-06-2024
Project Reference: 2022-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000083703
EU Grant: 60.000,00 €
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Small-scale partnerships in adult education

Project Summary

Objectives

The aim of our project proposal is to contribute to the extension of smart farming practices/Agriculture 4.0 and thus to environmental sustainability, in cooperation with EU partners.

With this project, increasing awareness of Smart Agriculture at the European level will give us a vision in adult training. It is planned to gain a new learning and teaching approach in the training given to adult farmers by our institution.

Activities

• Pre-mobility online opening meeting,
• The event program to be organized by our institution in Türkiye,
• The event program organized by AKETH in Greece,
• The event program organized by the Hungarian Knowledge Foundation,
• Training meeting for Chamber of Agriculture staff and board of directors
• 3 training sessions for our personnel working in our directorate on project achievements
• Farmer training meetings in 15 neighborhoods where agriculture is intense
• Results sharing meeting in our district.

Impact

Steps have been taken for forward-looking cooperation partnerships.

Our Institution personnel have been trained on Smart Agriculture.

NGO personnel have been informed and trained on the use of technology in agriculture.

Farmers have been taught how to access information on Smart Agriculture.

Farmers have been trained on Smart Farming.

Good examples of Smart Agriculture practices in EU Countries have been promoted and disseminated.

The use of conventional methods has been reduced.

Coordinator:

• Efeler İlçe Tarım ve Orman Müdürlüğü - Türkiye

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• EFELER ZIRAAT ODASI BASKANLIGI - Türkiye
• Tabit Akıllı Tarım Teknolojileri A.Ş - Türkiye
• Tudás Alapítvány - Hungary

Folk Art & Culture

Start: 30-12-2022 - End: 29-06-2024
Project Reference: 2022-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000083703
EU Grant: 120.000,00 €
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in adult education

Project Summary

Objectives

Objectives of the program: - Shaping the perception of museums as open learning spaces and experiences for every member and group of society, - Use of technology as means of promoting and highlighting Europe's cultural wealth, - Creating an innovative museum educational program for young adults belonging to the NEETs group, - Promoting museums as means capable of stimulating social cohesion, - Becoming relevant and the transition to the digital age.

Activities

In addition to the necessary management activities already described in the first Working package, we are going to have the following activities.

• - Results: Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and educational virtual tour for each partner museum (hosted in a common platform).
• - 2 Transnational project meetings.
• - 4 Multiplier Events, each per museum partner.
• - Evaluation and monitoring activities.
• - Dissemination activities

Impact

Within the two years of the program life, we are going to create two different Results. The first is a Μassive Open Online Course (MOOC), which will include 4 core modules and two compulsory courses for trainees. The second result is the creation of an educational virtual tour for each partner museum, which will be part of the training, but also will take the form of an independent result available to everyone interested to visit and learn about the collections of the partner museums.

Coordinator:

• Dimos Pylis - Greece

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• Centro studi per il Museo della lana e per l'immagine dell'Abruzzo - Italy
• COMPLEXUL MUZEAL NATIONAL MOLDOVA IASI - Romania
• KADIR HAS UNIVERSITESI - Türkiye

The Green Workplaces in NGO

Start: 01-10-2022 - End: 30-09-2023
Project Reference: 2022-1-PL01-KA210-VET-000083703
EU Grant: 60000 EUR
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training

Project Summary

Objectives

The project is a response to the current European and global ecological crisis and challenges at workplaces focusing on ecology. The main goal of the "The Green Workplaces in NGO" project is to carry out a green transformation of NGO workplaces by improving the quality of vocational education and training by developing green and soft competences of their employees and cooperating persons, acquired as part of international cooperation.

Activities

In this project, we intend as part of hybrid meetings to develop a tool for measuring the degrees of ecological behaviors of workplaces (survey of eco-friendliness of NGOs workplaces and Generator of ecological activities) and educational material in the field of eco friendly activities in the workplace (Ebook Tutorial entitled "How to create green NGO's workplaces ").

Impact

The results of activities in the project: the creation of a survey, generator and ebook tutorial, will be a help and support for NGO employees in carrying out an optimal green transformation in their workplaces. Thanks to the development of these tools and materials, the project will also be an opportunity, especially for the partners involved in the activities, to improve vocational education and training, in which they develop their soft and green skills competences.

Website: https://www.ecoworkplaces.pl

Coordinator:

• Spółdzielnia Socjalna Zielone Śląskie - Poland

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• COOPERATIVA SOCIALE - COSEP - Italy

COMPANIES FOR EQUALITY

Start: 1/05/2023 - End: 1/8/2024
Project Reference: 2022-2-ES01-KA210-VET-000100786
EU Grant: 60000 EUR
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Small-scale partnerships
Action Type: Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training

Project Summary

The main objective of the COMPALITY project is to train VET students to design, implement and evaluate equality plans in companies. Through various activities, the participating students will get to know the legislation, both national and European, on equality in companies, learn to draft an equality plan in accordance with the law, start it in any organization (regardless of size, sector, activity, billing, etc.) and assess compliance. This will lead to a rapprochement of VET students with the company, which will be very positive for their subsequent incorporation into the labour market. This approach will take place when students, once trained, contact companies in their environment that lack an equality plan in their organization to realize it and put into practice all the theory acquired. As a result of the fact that the participating students offer themselves to the companies to design them an equality plan to measure, the number of companies that have the aforementioned equality plan in their company will increase, as the data published in this regard shed light on a much better situation in this regard (only 1 in 4 companies has an equality plan, according to USO, report of 25 October 2021). Finally, after carrying out the above activities, we would be able to achieve a very important objective set by the consortium, which is to spread equal behaviour between men and women in business organisations, favouring positive actions and denouncing possible discriminatory situations providing the company with tools for their elimination.

Finally, after carrying out the above activities, we would be able to achieve a very important objective set by the consortium, which is to spread equal behaviour between men and women in business organisations, favouring positive actions and denouncing possible discriminatory situations providing the company with tools for their elimination. To conclude, we can summarize that the main objective is to train the participating students to design equality plans in companies, and that from this main objective derive three other secondary:

-Approach of students to the labour market, especially of its environment, what we will link it with the reference priority with cooperation between educational and business institutions.

-Increasing the number of companies that have an equality plan in their organization, which we will relate to the priority on inclusion, promotion of equality and non-discrimination, in our specific area of the company.

-Promoting equality in business. This goal is directly linked to the priority of promoting gender equality.

Coordinator:

• BOTANIC Yourope Team - Spain

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• HumaCapiAct - Italy
• Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - Netherlands

LOOK LIKE ME: Emotional Intelligence, New Masculinities and Non Violent Communication to Deconstruct Gender Stereotypes

Start: 01-12-2021 - End: 01-12-2023
Project Reference: 2021-1-ES01-KA220-SCH-000031591
EU Grant: 227.005,00 €
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in school education

Project Summary

Objectives

LOOK LIKE ME aims to develop a training and educational plan that has a direct impact on teachers and students in secondary education (14-18 years old) to prevent the potential problems that gender discrimination can cause in adulthood. Our main objective is to develop Emotional Intelligence, Nonviolent Communication and Alternative Masculinities models to:

• Deconstruct traditional gender stereotypes and their replacement by more egalitarian, inclusive and diverse ones.
• Promote equal opportunities and the prevention of gender violence.
• Provide students with competences in order to empower and critically position themselves in the face of stereotypes, inequality and gender violence.
• Train teachers in the three areas mentioned above as well as in the use of the educational tools provided by this project, to fight against gender stereotypes and their consequences on their students.

Activities

LOOK LIKE ME will produce three Project Results:

• In PR1 (ATHENEA) The project consortium will develop a training system of 18 podcasts for Secondary school teachers in the application of Emotional Intelligence, Nonviolent Communication and Alternative Masculinities to deconstruct stereotypes and roles based on traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity.
• In PR2 (IRIS), the consortium will bring together a collection of 18 videos as case studies. These will show how gender equality and equity produce successful and transformative initiatives that improve society, economy, and culture, generating a positive impact in Europe, generating a didactic resource.
• In PR3 (HEFESTO), the consortium will create an educational resource bank with 24 online tools for students based on EI, NVC and Alternative Masculinities to develop and foster diversity, egalitarian values, equal opportunities, prevention of sexism and gender-based violence in students.
• In the multiplier events, the project consortium will hold workshops to ensure sustainability of the project results beyond the partnership and project life.

IMPACT

IMPACT ON PARTICIPANTS: Participants will discover a more modern, dynamic, committed and professional environment inside the organization: ready to integrate good practices and new training methods. LLM will open synergies between organizations active in different fields and strategic planning of professional development for staff in line with individual needs and organizational objectives.

IMPACT ON PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS: Raising awareness and responding to the problem posed by gender stereotypes and roles, in the educational sphere, in different countries and with different realities in this situation. The concern and effort to increase social inclusion and equal opportunities at transnational level, in relation to gender discrimination in the field of education. Furthermore, LLM will provide partners of the innovative approaches for addressing their target groups, by providing : more attractive education and training programmes, in line with individual needs and expectations use of participatory approaches and digital methodologies greater effectiveness of activities for the benefit of local communities; new or improved practices to cater for the needs of targets groups with fewer opportunities new approaches to address social diversity; to deal with differences in learning outcomes linked to socio-economic disparities Moreover, participating organizations will increase their capacity and professionalism to work at EU/international level: improved management competences and internationalization strategies reinforced cooperation with partners from other countries other fields of education, training and other socio-economic sectors

IMPACT ON TARGET GROUP: LOOK LIKE ME addresses, from Secondary education, a very worrying problem such as gender stereotypes, which are behind the discrimination, inequality and exclusion suffered by girls and women. As has already been demonstrated throughout this application, it is a problem that affects, without exception, in different ways half of the European population in all Member States. LLM will impact on the primary target group (Secondary school teachers) in this way:

1. They will develop a global approach to teaching and learning, through the mainstreaming of gender equality work and prevention of gender-based violence.

2. They will be able to create inclusive educational environments that promote equity and equality.

3. Train education professionals to deconstruct traditional gender stereotypes and replace them with more egalitarian, inclusive and diverse stereotypes in their students.

4. Educate in key social and civic competences, using innovative learning approaches such as EI, NVC and Alternative Masculinities.

IMPACT ON STAKEHOLDERS: The consortium will use the project's outcomes in future initiatives on the same topic, disseminating them through all of its channels and incorporating them into its internal working dynamics. Furthermore, the multiplier events will have an impact on the participants by bringing them into direct contact with the end-users, ensuring that the project's activities attract stakeholders, policymakers, representatives of business associations, chambers of commerce, trade unions, and business fabric in order to disseminate and promote the project on as many levels as possible.

Coordinator:

• INDEPCIE SCA - Spain

Partners:

• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS - Greece
• FUNDACJA DIVERSITY HUB - Poland
• COLEGIO SENECA S.C.A. - Spain
• VIENNA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATION VOLUNTEERS - Austria