@homeWork targets inactive women and housewives for developing their skills in utilising smart phones, tablets and computers for giving them the opportunity to develop their competencies on fashion design as a hobby. Two phase I-VET and C-VET cascaded technique will be employed for upmost efficiency in m-Training.Thus the project has several sub-aims to achieve the above goal:* Develop a m-Learning content to boost skills of inactive women in new technologies to let them better utilise smart phones, tablets and PCs,* Develop a m-Learning content to guide them to develop their competencies in fashion design for hobby purposes,* Develop a extendable m-Guiding content where they can utilise Web and social media for their fashion design hobby,* End up with scalable and expandable platform compatible with all existing and upcoming technology, a/v, avatar and gaming supported e-Training and e-Guiding content,* Disseminate the product mostly via strong women NGOs active at European level, peer to peer workshops with more NGOs to boost the dissemination,* Test the result and expand it to other hobby areas compatible to the project idea, in next lives of the project development.why this target group?Inactive women, who are classified neither as employed nor as unemployed; in other words, who are capable of being employed but not seeking for a job because of various personal or family responsibilities and reasons; such as elderly parents, small child, physical disabilities, being located at distant to workplace, etc. and housewives are forming a big portion of women population in Europe and Turkey. According to Eurostats, 20.5% of women aged between 25-54 are in this category in EU and 61.2% in Turkey, in 2014 (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/People_outside_the_labour_market#The_inactivity_rate_depends_heavily_on_sex.2C_age_and_education_level). Young women taking care of their newly born babies are one of the significant examples of this target group.why hobbies?Hobbies are extremely important in our lives; and even more important for those who are forced to stay at home, to relieve stress and boredom, keep away from depression and keep youthful. We count many more proven positive impacts. why basic ICT and fashion?Women have a natural talent towards fashion and majority of women enjoys the design implicitly; when they decorate their houses, when they dress on; when when they do make up, and many more. To make this activity better organised, they will need to utilise existing boosting new technological tools, mobiles, tablets as well as social media and Web based tools for developing their competencies and enjoy their hobbies. This will surely affect their overall skills in a very positive manner and make them more compatible with high speed growing technology.Moreover, this virtual hobby is the best choice for those who are bound to be at home mostly.why partnership wants this project?Coordinator AGE has a great experience in hobby purposed courses, and seeks to have an experience in m-Training,National reserach center INCSMPS has a great experience on target group as well as social needs for self-development at EU scale, and seeks to gain an experience on inactive women hobby development,Europeanwide scaled Women NGO ZARIF has a great women associations network in Europe, and seeks to disseminate this idea within European women NGOs,ICT and e-VET developer e-BL is offering state of the art technological m-Training solutions to the project and do a user friendly I-VET and C-VET cascade infrastructure, and seeks to develop themselves in structuring hobby based e-Training,World leader shoe industry leader union CTCP who are offering extensive fashion design at every level is willing to share their experiences, and seeks to develop themselves in hobby dimension,One of the most European oriented women organizations in Turkey, TAKIDD is willing to contributing to the design and spreading this idea in their network in Turkey and other Turkish republic,Central Europe VET oriented foundation MOJMIR is willing to contribute in content development and improve their hobby based learning.What is the global objective and resulting impact?More ICT oriented women population, who are encouraged to use recent technology for their hobbies, more healthy inactive women, who are better prepared to meet with working life in future, in case they decide to resume as they will develop their ICT skills via their hobbies. This will help to self-development of inactive women in a long run too and motivating more ICT based hobbies to grow.
@homeWork targets inactive women and housewives for developing their skills in utilising smart phones, tablets and computers for giving them the opportunity to develop their competencies on fashion design as a hobby. Two phase skills' development online training is enhanced by employing avatars.Thus the project has several tools to achieve its goal: Develop a learning content to boost skills of inactive women in new technologies to let them better utilise smart phones, tablets and PCs, develop a m-Learning content to guide them to develop their competencies in fashion design for hobby purposes, develop an online guide where they can utilise Web and social media for their fashion design hobby, end up with scalable and expandable platform compatible with all existing and upcoming technology, a/v, gaming supported with avatars e-Training and e-Guiding content. Project outputs were disseminated mostly via strong women NGOs active at European level, peer to peer workshops with more NGOs to boost the exploitation. Results were tested during multiplier events and their expand-ability to other hobby areas compatible to the project idea was validated. Project concentrates on inactive women, who are classified neither as employed nor as unemployed; in other words, who are capable of being employed but not seeking for a job because of various personal or family responsibilities and reasons. Young women taking care of their newly born babies are one of the significant examples of this target group. Project concerns developing hobbies of this target group, because hobbies are extremely important in everybody's lives; and even more important for those who are forced to stay at home, to relieve stress and boredom, keep away from depression and keep youthful. Women have a natural talent towards fashion and majority of women enjoy the design implicitly; when they decorate their houses, when they dress on; when when they do make up, and many more. To make this activity better organised, project supports them to utilise existing technological tools, mobiles, tablets as well as social media and Web based tools for developing their competencies and enjoy their hobbies. This surely affected their overall skills in a very positive manner and made them more compatible with high speed growing technology. Coordinator AGE has a great experience in hobby purposed courses,National research center INCSMPS has an experience on target group as well as social needs for self-development at EU scale, Europe wide Women NGO ZARIF has a wide women associations network in Europe, and disseminates the project within European women NGOs, ICT and e-VET developer e-BL is offering state of the art technological Web based solutions to the project and do a user friendly training infrastructure, world leader shoe industry leader union CTCP who are offering extensive fashion design at every level is sharing their experiences, one of the most European oriented women organizations in Turkey, TAKIDD is spreading the project in their network in Turkey and other Turkish republics, Central Europe VET oriented foundation MOJMIR is supporting the content development. More ICT oriented women population was the aim, by encouraging them to use recent technology for their hobbies, more healthy inactive women, who are better prepared to meet with working life in future, in case they decide to resume as they will develop their ICT skills via their hobbies. This will help to self-development of inactive women in a long run too and motivating more ICT based hobbies to grow.