Funded by European Commission within the Erasmus+ 2021-2027 programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership Projects. AGREEMENT n° 2021-1-DE02-KA220-ADU-000026930.
Project team from SumDU:
Project coordinator from SumDU: PhD, assoc.professor of the IER department Oksana Zamora.
Researcher position from SumDU: doctor, professor, head of the IER department Yurii Petrushenko.
Project partners:
- Grone NRW (Germany)
- Sumy State University (Ukraine)
- Linking Foundation (Poland)
- KITZ.do (Germany)
- Umbria Training Center (Italy)
- Both Social (Netherlands)
Project Summary
The world of work has changed fundamentally in recent years. It is increasingly digitized and globalized and demands mobility and flexibility from employees. The social consequences of the Corona crisis hit women with children particularly because they take on most of the childcare during the pandemic and defer their own job or qualification-related activities. The group of women with a migration background who were already socially weak, poorly qualified and unaccustomed to learning before the crisis threatens to be doubly left behind in the area of digital knowledge and qualifications because the pandemic exponentially increases the use of digital applications and the need for corresponding qualifications and future job market opportunities of these women continue to decline rapidly due to a lack of further training.
Due to the widespread and urgency of this problem, an approach is to be tested with the bundled competence of 6 European partner organizations to motivate the target group of underqualified women with children in such a way that they want to expand their digital skills and take part in courses that firstly give them digital skills for everyday life and, secondly, to impart digital knowledge for the job and thereby enable them to have a
professional perspective.
Project Objectives:
The implementation of the project measures should achieve the following goals:
1. Low-skilled women with a refugee or migrant background to get acquired, familiarized and empowered to with the digital skills required for a professional activity today. Overall, this prevents relative dequalification, strengthens their selfconfidence and increases their employability.
2. People in the second phase of life who are interested in working as voluntary “senior experts” and especially in supporting the above target group will be qualified as learning guides.
3. The qualification modules developed in the project for the participants and their families will continue to be offered after the end of the project.
4. A sufficient number of learning guides are available to support the participants after the end of the project, an internationally coordinated learning unit for the learning guides will be developed, tested and made available to all interested parties during the course of the project.
5. In order to continuously optimize the participant-related work and to develop further internationally usable products in the future, the project aims to intensify andconsolidate the exchange of experiences in this regard. To this end, it initiates the establishment of an exemplary carrier network between the project partners and other interested organizations.
Implementation:
As part of the project, the following products and formats are being developed and implemented for the following addresses:
For the participants:
1) Product 1 Module 1: Basic learning module for women “everyday use of digital devices
2) Product 1 Module 2: Advanced module for women “Professional computer use Basic”
3) Product 1 Module 3: Family module – small, sustainable mint experiments that help children and mothers and fathers to better understand digitally and learn together
4) Open webinar for women on the two modules to discuss the content internationally with the target group.
For learning guides:
5) Product 2 Module1: Learning unit for learning guides, “The little mentor’s certificate”
6) Open webinar for learning guides to evaluate the teaching units for learning guides
7) Product 2 Module 2 teaching concept for the international workshop
8) Workshop for learning guides in Italy for intercultural exchange and discussion of the work of learning support.
9) Product 2 Module 3: Tool for better communication between participants and learning guides.
For education providers and voluntary organizations:
10) Product 3 Module 1: Seminar for voluntary organizations and educational providers to be able to teach the products described above in their facilities
11) Product 3 M2: Guide for inserting the modules for interested institutions.
The final conference at the end of the project will also take place in Germany.