WE Start! Project – First partners’ meeting in Patras, Greece

WE Start! project – Women.Education(and)STrategic.Approach.foR.Training!, kicked-off on January 7th and 8th, with a meeting hosted by the project partner DAFNI KEK in the city of Patras, Greece.

WE Start! is a project funded by the Erasmus+ project, gathering together 8 partners from Italy, Austria, Germany, Romania, Cyprus and Greece: Accademia Nuovi Studi Intarnationali (Accademia Grupo) – Coordinator Italy, Dedalus Cooperativa Sociale – Italy, Die Wiener Volkshochshule (VHS Wien) – Austria, DAFNI KEK – Greece, Center for the Advancement of Research & Development in Educational Technology (CARDET) – Cyprus, Studio Erresse – Italy,  Association for Education and Sustainable Development (AESD) – Romania & Volkshochschule im Landkreis Cham e.V. (VHS Cham) – Germany.

The priority to which the project responds is that of social inclusion. In particular, the project intends: to develop participation processes, active citizenship and social inclusion; to increase digital skills to reduce gender differences; to favor access to the initial and continuing training of women aged 25-40 years who are European or “EU” citizens, non-European citizens, stateless persons, refugees, ROMs, single mothers, women subject to close family and / or religious ties, women living in rural areas. In order to support the active involvement of target women, the participation of professionals identified by the partners is foreseen among: trainers, sociologists, educators, psychologists, teachers and counselors.

To achieve the objectives identified, WE Start! proposes to carry out 4 Intellectual Outputs:
1) a Guide to innovative technological methodologies, methods and tools to promote the social inclusion of women;
2) a Social Learning Platform that can be used and available on digital devices;
3) a Toolkit Assessment (Self-assessment, E-assessment, Peer-assessment) able to measure the skills (basic and transversal) of the target women of the project and any changes that occurred following the realization of the paths through the S.L.P;
4) a Policy Paper which aims to provide policy-makers with indications and suggestions regarding the social inclusion of target women, increasing levels of active participation, methods for facilitating access to vocational training and reducing gender differences in relation to TIC.

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