"<< Background >>The world of work has changed fundamentally in recent years. It is increasingly digitized and globalized and demands mobility and flexibility from employees. Then there is the current crisis, which has hit all of Europe and the world hard. 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. Affected are women who have recently arrived in the country as well as women who have resided in Germany for a long time and who have not yet managed to integrate into the local labor market. 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.<< Objectives >>The implementation of the project measures should achieve the following goals: 1. Target group 1 Low-skilled women with a refugee or migrant background who (have to) neglect their own advanced training, especially in the area of digital skills, and therefore have no or only difficult access to the German labor market due to bringing up children and traditions (and currently also increasingly due to the corona epidemic) Acquired, familiarized and empowered to use this knowledge professionally through qualifications that are tailored to their needs and their circumstances. So that women can take advantage of these offers, their children or their families are involved through parallel offers; conversely, the child-related offers serve as a “lure” for those women who initially have little self-motivation. As a result, the participants acquire the digital skills required for a professional activity today. Overall, this prevents relative dequalification, strengthens their self-confidence and increases their employability. 2. Target group 2 In the course of the project, 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 identified and qualified as learning guides. They accompany and advise the participants with regard to course participation and with regard to taking up a job and thus make an important contribution to stabilizing participation and achieving the job-related qualification goals. 3. Sustainability of the products The qualification modules developed in the project for the participants and their families (product I.1 basic module, I.2 advanced module, I.3 family module,) will continue to be offered after the end of the project by as many of the German and international partners participating in the project as possible within their own fields of activity ; Through suitable transfer formats, efforts are also made to win over other national and international sponsors (educational institutions and voluntary organizations) for the sustainable implementation of these offers. In order to ensure the implementation of the qualification modules at a high level, a seminar for the future sponsors (product III.1) and a guide (product III.2) for implementation in the respective programs will be developed and offered as part of the project. 4. Sustainability of the learning support So that 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 (product II.2) will be developed, tested and made available to all interested parties during the course of the project. 5. Networking In order to continuously optimize the participant-related work and to develop further internationally usable products in the future, the project aims to intensify and consolidate the exchange of experiences in this regard. To this end, it initiates the establishment of an exemplary carrier network in the Dortmund area and encourages the establishment of an international 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 addressees: For the participants: • Product 1 Module 1: Basic learning module for women ""everyday use of digital devices • Product 1 Module 2: Advanced module for women ""Professional computer use Basic"" • Product 1 Module 3: Family module - small, sustainable mint experiments that help children and mothers and fathers to better understand digitally and learn together • Open webinar for women on the two modules to discuss the content internationally with the target group For learning guides: • Product II M.1: Learning unit for learning guides, ""The little mentor's certificate"" • Open webinar for learning guides to evaluate the teaching units for learning guides • Product II M2 teaching concept for the international workshop • Workshop for learning guides in Italy for intercultural exchange and discussion of the work of learning support • Product II M 3: Tool for better communication between participants and learning guides. For education providers and voluntary organizations: Transfer • Product III M.1: Seminar for voluntary organizations and educational providers to be able to teach the products described above in their facilities • Product III M2: Guide for inserting the modules for interested institutions The project partners from 5 countries work together to develop these desired results in a collaborative and collaborative manner. Division of labor, because each project partner assumes responsibility for the content of at least one of the concepts to be developed and prepares initial proposals for this. This coordination function is assigned to the partner who has the most experience in the area addressed. Cooperative, because each of these responsible parties has one or more other project partners who form a working group with them. In order to spread the existing experience as evenly as possible, it is planned that each project partner should work on at least one element from each of the three product groups mentioned above. A total of 5 international partner meetings are held every six months for joint project planning, to get to know the partners, to control the content of the measure and to intensively discuss and ""adopt"" the concepts developed by the working groups. The 2-3 day meetings, in which 2 experts from each partner take part, take place in turn in the participating countries. The final conference at the end of the project will also take place in Germany. After the discussion and ""acceptance"" of the developed concepts by the project plenum, the modules are tested in practice. The respective country-specific conditions are used in a targeted manner to test different approaches and to draw comparisons. For example, the target group of women in the partner country Italy consists mainly of refugee women, in Germany of refugees and migrants (some of whom have been resident here for a long time) and in Poland more of women migrants from other Eastern European countries. Additional knowledge is gained by inviting representatives of these different (sub) target groups as guests to the international partner meetings, where they can also exchange ideas with one another and with the project partners about suitable formats for their advanced training. The entire measure is continuously evaluated by the Ukrainian partner.<< Results >>For women who have never been employed or have been out of work for a long time and have no experience in dealing with computers, a basic module “everyday computer use” is offered. In this course you will learn the basics of private PC operation, you will also be taught essential knowledge of everyday life and introduced some low-threshold professions. The course lasts four months and is carried out as close to your home as possible. From the ranks of the participants in the basic module, a group of women emerges who have further professional and technical interests. For these and other women who already have professional experience and / or private experience with the PC, the advanced module “Professional Computer Use Basic” is offered. It introduces women to the use of the office package and, depending on their needs, can include other aspects of professional preparation (e.g. application training). The course immediately follows the beginner's course so that its graduates can take part and take the next qualification step straight away.For the children of the participants of all courses, a family module takes place in parallel, which is supervised and organized by the project partner Kitz.Do. It includes experiments that are also suitable for normal rooms, so that the children and mothers can learn side by side. During the holidays, more complex work camps take place in the KITZ.do rooms. The children and their parents have the opportunity to try out a scientifically and technically oriented play program. This opens up further access to their interests and at the same time offers the opportunity to repeat basic skills such as writing and arithmetic again through fun experiments. you will learn about programs that you can use to protect yourself from malware and other risks. In addition, the children receive further information about possible professions in the Mint area. Not only do the mothers and their children work together on the experiments, the fathers are also involved if possible in order to increase the acceptance of women's learning and to further improve family structures. By attracting them and by offering a meaningful offer for the children, it is possible to win over women as the actual target group for participation. By attracting them and by offering a meaningful offer for the children, it is possible to win over women as the actual target group for participation. Another important result of the project is the recruitment of volunteer learning guides who support the women in solving the questions and problems that arise in connection with the qualification and to support them in their professional orientation. The learning guides are qualified for this task by the international learning unit developed in the project (""The Little Mentor Certificate"") and are supported in networking internationally, exchanging their experiences with colleagues from other countries and thereby developing themselves and their work ."

"ContextThe project purpose is to create on-line facilities containing set of tools, tutorials and training modules that will include socio-civic and social entrepreneurship methods, good practice examples in the use of heritage for its contribution to job creation, economic growth and social cohesion.The mentioned resources will be accessible to staff of adult's trainers whose are working in the field of natural and cultural heritage. Objectives are:- to facilitate needs based target groups’ comparative learning about green economy, climate change, cultural and natural change preservation, social and cultural enterprises;- to build up target groups’ digital knowledge, skills and attitude to ease their work with disadvantaged people.- create new training paths, based on the use of ICT and interaction of ICT with cultural and natural heritage.- let our trainers to get new skills and competences and use them to preapar and train disadvantaged groups of adults in our local community.- spread the feelin of bolonging to European community, among our staff and among the learners in each partner.ParticipantsOur project involves two groups of participants:- Trainers, professionals, from each partners organisation who will contribute to the design and making of the OERs, delivery of training workshops for this multinational group of adult workers and learners. Adult learners in disadvantage socio-economical situation. We will select a specific number of learners in order to guarantee the best training for them. 3 Transnational meetings M6 in Poland - M13 in Romania - M19 in Italy help to keep track of the project progress and clarification of the content and technical issues related to the OERs and implementation of LTAs and local training activities.Both training sessions LTA1 and LTA2 are based on action-research-participation methology.The logic of the LTAs activities is the following:Action-research-participation methods > used in 2 trainings that will take in account the ""entire trinity"" in each session > combining contents with operative session and activities > with different actors experts in contents and didactics and those expert in developing of tools and designing of activities. LTA1 Training for trainers in Poland focused on contents for new the developing of new training program. At the base there will be an analysis of the different contexts, realities, actors, opportunities and obstacles.In this activity will take part 3 participants/trainers per partner and the main activities are focused on: - Work on the content of the trainings modules, tools. Selection of subjects and thematics to work with for the implementation and creation of training tools and modules. - Design and creation of template to facilitate the work of creation of new training programs based on the developed tools and modules.- Visit to private cultural and naturalistic companies and organizations to see and share good practices already existing and to be able to make an analysis of what is missing. - Work in the field (action-research-formation). Interviews, meeting with local citizens and responsible of cultural companies.LTA2The main objectives is to create training modules and tools based on the contents elaborated during the first LTA in Poland.The first and second day will be dedicated to the use of ICT and new media for communcation, training and work.The third and forth day we will develop training modules and lessons based on the agreed contents and the ICT and media support selected previously. The international group of trainers will work on the creation of the tempalte training tools designed during the first LTA.The fifth day these training tools will be tested with the learners coming from the Romanian organisation and we will ask a feedback to them to improve in order to design the training modules. Impact on the participants:They will renew and increase their competences on the use of heritage to support social inclusion and promote active citizenship in adult contexts.The learners who will benefit of the new tools and instrument developed inside the project. Impact on the institutions- Increase of European dimension in each partner organisation- Better visibility of the partner at local and regional level- Increase of the net of contacts, collaborators and future partners for new projects.- Reinforced interaction between practice, research and policy in each system."

"Migrants successful integration may enrich and contribute toward the development of the mainstream society. In those efforts, informal education and ""peer to peer"" learning may play a significant role. Successful migrant path to integration may become a model for their peer group. Development of skills, including language proficiency, social and soft skills competencies may be supported by the creativity and art. INTEGRART is a project aimed at enhancing the quality of informal education of adult migrants. They are co-designers and co-creators of the integration supporting material including material and information in social media and short featured films presenting songs and melodies assisting them in gaining language social integration. To achieve that goals the Community of Practice and Art will be build and sustained supporting integration efforts The main goal of the project is to improve and support migrant integration by creativity and art delivering high-quality, authentic material which creates curiosity and positive attitude toward integration of migrants.INTEGRART will involve migrants in helping their peer group boost creativity, integrate knowledge and skills, connecting their expectations and needs to the real world, and their interests and personal goals. Specifically, they will help them connect and improve their abilities to influence others as pathfinders of better integration within hosting society. Project partners invite migrants as co-designers and co-creators to explore the best ways for better integration through focused music driven artistic projects The participants - migrants - will work in different environments - online, on the meetings and workshops - to design, create, select, filter and test music based visual, text and multimedia resources supporting effective integration efforts.The approach of the INTEGRART project is to jointly develop and engage migrants into successful integration using digital education tools. INTEGRART project build innovative system for supporting training for a new generation of competent and creative migrants. Digital apprenticeships focused on migrant needs will facilitate their integration efforts using digital tools and methods and consequently path the way to access to social integration in their host country. The focus of the project will be development of the comprehensive system and tools supporting integration of migrant civic leaders using digital tools supporting their creativity through ART. Most of their training will be based on the individually crafted support building digital skills and competencies. Special focus in the INTEGRART project will be given to support of the migrant women and girls. The base of the training will be 2018 Horizon Europe seal of excellence award winning platform SMRT.BIO which measure strengths and passion psychometric tests which will help migrants to build individual digital competencies integration development plans. It will be done while working for creation of the migrant focused ad hoc project groups who helps the migrant leaders to learn their digital skills in exchange for their continued engagement for joint creative projects for an agreed period 3-4 months during which they will achieve significant measurable digital competencies. The planned duration of the project is 24 months. The INTEGRART project partnership includes Foundation of support of local ties - Linking Foundation (PL) SMRT.BIO Holding (NL) The European Centre for Women and Technology. (NO) The project will include development of the 3 intellectual outputs.1) Development of the methodology for gathering digital skill need analysis among migrant community with the special emphasis of women and girls 2) Development of the benchmarking analysis for the integrating of the migrant communities using new digital tools and competencies 3) Creation of the experimental group of migrant Community of Practice and Art in european cooperation including Poland, Netherlands and Norway based on the SMRT.BIO methodology."

Women Inspired: Supporting Entrepreneurship (WISE) will support existing women entrepreneurs by developing their skills in digital marketing and e-commerce through online training so women can grow their SME business, open up new markets and prosper in a global economy; it will provide a forum to build a community to network with other women entrepreneurs and to inspire women to set up a business. With the negative impact of COVID19 on the economy and how the pandemic has increased the use of e-commerce for buying and selling it is critical that women entrepreneurs build a strong online digital marketing and e-commerce strategy to engage with consumers and increase revenue by expanding their business beyond their local area.The WISE Learning and Community Platform evolved as a result of the professional experience of the project partners and their involvement in a number of Erasmus+ projects which identified women entrepreneurs as the specific target group requiring support. Women entrepreneurs tend to work alone, their businesses are generally small and their working hours are flexible for around family commitments. Over time they lack digital marketing and e-commerce skills to expand their business and require that learning opportunity to be flexible and accessible online.The WISE project will develop the skills of women entrepreneurs through KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS AND TO SHAREKNOWLEDGE: By developing an online learning course on digital marketing and e-commerce (01)- The course will include a series of modules to develop the knowledge and skills of women entrepreneurs to create an online identity for their business. - The content will be driven by both experts and learners tailored to both the beginner and the more experienced to develop new and advance existing skills as a self-paced course on Moodle (OERs, free to use).TOOLS: A Digital Toolbox and Online Handbook of Good Practice Examples of Women (02)- To create an ‘ideas bank’ with practical tutorials of the best digital tools, services, and frameworks used by women entrepreneurs to address the needs of women starting a new business, transforming the existing business to digital requirements, and expanding their business activities.- To gather a set of best practice examples and video testimonials of women entrepreneurs who use digital marketing and e-commerce to promote their business online to inspire and encourage other women to use these tools in their businessSHARE: A Woman Entrepreneurs LEARNING and COMMUNITY PORTAL (03)- To bring together the online learning course (01) and digital toolbox and Handbook of good practice (02) on a Portal to share knowledge and tools to develop the skills of women entrepreneurs.- To create a place for cooperation, exchange of ideas and opinions for women entrepreneurs during the project and beyond to enable women to continually learn, share, and inspire each other.- Provide the opportunity to present the ongoing work of the project to target groups (women/entrepreneurs) in order to gather feedback and pre-evaluate the practical usefulness.The WISE project brings together partners with a range of experience: Community, NGOs, Training, European Networks and business providing a link across the world of work, business, training, and education with links to other stakeholders women entrepreneurs, women's networks, business enterprise agencies, business training within each partner region that support women entrepreneurs.The Women entrepreneurs Learning and Community Portal will foster access to continuing VET to women entrepreneurs who face challenges that are different to male entrepreneurs in the area of reconciling business and family responsibilities. The online learning course will add value to any other training which is provided to women entrepreneurs in their region to enable them to continue to improve their skills and abilities in adopting digital marketing and e-commerce.It will support the EU Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan to promote entrepreneurship through training and by reaching out to specific groups such as women entrepreneurs who are not reached by traditional business support. ENTREPRENEURSHIP 2020 ACTION PLAN http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2012:0795:FIN:EN:PDFThe WISE project will support the skills of women to build a strong online digital marketing and e-commerce strategy to expand their business and add to the economy to combat the impact of COVID on the economy and take advantage of the shift to e-commerce as a result of the pandemic which has accelerated the shift to e-commerce by 5 years which is projected to grow by nearly 20% YoY in 2020. https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/24/covid-19-pandemicaccelerated-shift-to-e-commerce-by-5-years-new-report-says

"The project ""Tourism: Empowering migrant communities to strengthen local economic development "" (TOURISM LED) will harness the cultural and heritage resources of migrant communities in partner regions for tourism led social and economic development. It will do this by sharing best practice examples between partner regions through civic engagement and bottom-up participation through community organisations and migrant networks to generate ideas that can be adapted to support entrepreneurship, employment and the economy in the tourism sector at a local level.The outbreak of Coronavirus COVID-19 presents Europe with a major and evolving challenge compounding the threat of migrant integration and socio-economic marginalisation. Tourism is currently one of the most affected sectors and The World Tourism Organization and the World Health Organization met in April 2020 to consider a coordinated response to COVID-19.Tourism is the 3rd largest sector of the EU economy generating 10.3 % of its GDP and employs 27 million people (11.7% of all EU jobs). https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/tourism/policy-overview_en). Tourism provides for cost-effective job creation with low barriers to entry and can stimulate localised self-supporting the service and creative sectors. Tourism is also the largest employer of young people, migrants, part-time workers and women. It is the main entry point to the labour market and provides job opportunities to people who want to re-enter the labour market.A key concern across Europe is the integration of MIGRANT groups into local communities which are themselves confronted with their own socio-economic challenges. MIGRANT ISSUES include the perception that they are an added burden to the local economy rather than having the capacity to add economic opportunities. The project will promote migrants as a positive force of cultural diversity and develop ‘know-how’ regarding how local and migrant communities can work together to develop tourist entrepreneurial opportunities for mutual, sustainable social and economic benefit and a sense of place for all.The TOURISM LED project will provide an opportunity for addressing the interaction between two sectors not as yet addressed, namely migration integration and tourism.Objectives:• to share best practice/ ‘ideas bank’ between partner regions and develop methodologies and curricula to generate ideas and ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING on how tangible and particularly intangible cultural heritage can be used to generate business and income in partner regions in co-production with local MIGRANT communities. MIGRANTS are viewed as key assets to create shared opportunities for economic benefit through inter-related localised tourism development.• to explore tools and models on how to develop bottom-up CIVIC ENGAGEMENT through community networks with local and MIGRANT communities and through positive integration of migrants to build sustainable business opportunities.The TOURISM LED project will work to support MIGRANTS through bottom-up CIVIC ENGAGEMENT with community groups, NGOs and volunteers. The project will encourage the establishment of networks that enable the local and MIGRANT communities to share opportunities and resources to work for mutual benefit related to localised tourism development. Sharing ideas for ENTREPRENEURIAL LEARNING through peer EDUCATION will use motivational strategies to provide access to upskilling and key competencies to inspire tourism entrepreneurship such as guiding, exhibitions, events etc.PROJECT OUTPUTS/RESULTS• STATE OF THE ART REPORT: Survey to analyse the situation of local tourism post COVID-19 in each partner region explore the employment/business opportunities for migrants in the tourism sector and to identify skills gap and training needs.• ONLINE HANDBOOK: A handbook with examples of best practice/ ‘ideas bank’ on how social, cultural and historical heritage has been used to generate tourism business. Training curriculum and methodology: to provide didactic guidelines for the training course materials.• COMMUNITY NETWORK TOOL BOX: with tools and models to guide community leaders, activities and business support agencies on how to develop networks with local and migrant communities. Through positive integration of migrants the project will build sustainable business opportunities to show how civil society can harness the social and economic capital inherent within migrant communities particularly through their enhanced participation in the field of cultural tourism and the attendant economic opportunities it generates.• LEARNING PLATFORMThe TOURISM LED project will focus on a local level with the view that building local economic capacity will impact at regional, national and European levels through widespread dissemination. Supporting local tourism will boost skills and employability which is one of the Erasmus+ programme overall objectives and can also impact more widely on the environment."