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DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT PROJECT Lead partner Dimitra Institute of training and development, www.dimitra.gr Partners: Social and Economic Development Centre - Lithuania ARSIS – Greece EDTC – Cyprus Documenta – Spain Digitales Limited – UK Multimedia Education Center Warsaw University SGGW – Poland Athena – Czech Republic CONCEPT DigEm is an innovative digital empowering project that uses a creative approach to teaching basic ICT skills and provides an effective entry route for learners who are disengaged with the learning process, or who are unconfident with new technologies. DgEm develops literacy and communication skills by using creative tools, media techniques and tools, by the creation of story ideas, focused on people’s own lives, through story-telling circles, drama, photography, music, video clips and narrative. The project places the learner at the centre of the teaching method, and draws upon their personal experiences and stories to engage them. As an example the digital story telling tool engages them on developing a two minute film about their lives, for publication on the internet The main objectives of the project is to introduce alternative methods for the teaching of ICT skills for groups that have been excluded or reluctant to join the digital society. The project targets those with no or few formal qualifications, socially excluded groups, those living in rural or deprived inner city areas, older learners, women over 45, minority ethnic groups and those unemployed or at economic disadvantage in order to motivate them, empower them and increase their employability. DgEm introduces basic digital competence by:
The project aims to train mainly trainers coming from Associations, NGOs and relative to the target groups communities, in order to have access to a wider number of end-users groups and at the same time, achieve multiplying effects as this approach will provide more end-results than trying to teach limited groups of end-users. In parallel NGOs and Associations are usually working with more than one groups and face more than one training situations. Based on these principles the teaching methodologies and trainers guide will be a collection of tools, syllabuses and approaches (following the concept of one stop-shops) that each trainer and oganization will be able to adapt and use for multiple and diverse groups and situations. Training of end-users is also to be implemented in the course of the project in order to test the results of the training methodolgies and tools and include the evaluation of the pilot trainings (good/bad case studies) to the trainers guide. The training approach will be complemented by the development of an e-content platform in order to facilitate the trainees (both trainers and end-users). The platform will also favour online work on a virtual network and showcase of the products of the end-users, in order to facilitate the creation of social networks and the successive interchange of information, empower all educational actors and foster the linking up and connecting of learning and users communities.
You can take a look at a sample of digital stories told by participants of an EQUAL project: www.digi-tales.org
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- E-CONTENT AND E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR TRAINEES (ONE STOP SHOP) – NETWORKING FACILITY - TRAINERS METHODOLOGY AND CONTENTS –GUIDE PUBLISHED AND WEB BASED - FINAL EVALUATION - DISSEMINATION MATERIAL - TRAINING PILOTS 6 TRAIN THE TRAINERS PILOTS ONE IN EACH COUNTRY 2 TARGET GROUPS PILOTS AS FEASIBILITY STUDIES Duration of the project: 30 months Start: October 1, 2009 Budget: total 500.000 EUR, EU subsidy 372.000 EUR.
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