The aim of this research guide is to provide the project team with information on the use of electronic media by women who shall be addressed by the project. The research was carried out in spring 2019.

The “Guide”- the initial research – of WESTART used a mixed method approach i.e. a combination of quantitative questionnaires for institutions, semi qualitative guided interviews with learners as well as a collection of so called good practice examples and the minutes and comments of the Territorial Working Groups installed in each partner country and used as a sounding board and extra source of expertise for the project. This approach was decided upon for two reasons, one mainly pragmatic as the questionnaires could be sent out by the institutions and collected and evaluated centrally by lernraum.wien, and second, because the different perspectives achieved by this approach allow for triangulation and a multi-perspective view of the data. Like pieces of a puzzle, the individual components of the research are supposed to produce a complete picture.