Education is widely accepted as "the process of nurturing the personality of individuals" and "investment in human resources". Education involves the creation of behavioral changes, that is to say, current learning, not only in the case of formal education, but also in non formal and informal education. One of the most important skills that individuals need to have in order to be able to exist and improve their living conditions in today's technology and information age is life-long learning. It is not possible to fit learning into limited time and physical environments or to set an end for learning. Lifelong learning is a skill that individuals have to have in order to keep their lives on good terms. Individuals with this ability can access any kind of opportunity that they meet in their lives. The European Union refers to lifelong learning as "all of the educational activities aimed at developing knowledge, skills and competences". Lifelong learning is also an important element in ensuring active citizenship, social cohesion and equal opportunity. On the basis of active citizenship and social integration take place developed social skills. Scientific and technological developments and transformations in information and communication technologies have transformed the 21st century to information age. In the 21st century, the importance of investing in the development of education and human resources has increased for economic and social development. The Educational studies have been accelerated to offer quality educational activites to children, youth and adults in order to gain the knowledge, value and skills needed in 21. Century. Investment in education, training and human resources is the key in national and international development strategies. It is emphasized that qualified individuals who emerge with increasing quality of education will bring social integration and prosperity, growth and development together. It is pointed out the potential contribution of education and training for a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in the European 2020 strategy. The development and augmentation of qualified education will be facilitated by the increase of international cooperation. Our project includes interactive e-learning modules based on informal and non formal teaching techniques that enable adults to improve their social and adaptation skills, to change their attitudes and behaviors both in personal development and participation in balanced social and cultural development. The educationals activities are well planned, programmed and sustained in our Project. The interactive content is based on current events, includes real-life tasks, supported with videos, and animations. The Project will address the following mutually reinforcing goals: - To increase the number of adults with knowledge, good manners, social skills and competence to contribute to social welfare and harmony, - To give the opportunity to adults to improve their attitude, understanding and trait for their own self-actualization needs, - To develop democratic life consciousness through individual and social development and to contribute to social change, - To develop and increase the awareness of European values in education by providing equal and accessible opportunities to all adults, - To contribute to the development of adults’ basic digital competencies. Our project has been prepared to ensure that individuals from all walks of life especially for disadvantaged groups (disability, inadequate income, inadequate education, geographical barriers, cultural barriers, immigrants, refugees, etc.) to be able to access equal educational opportunities. The social changes brought by the globalization have taken social relations to international dimensions. For this reason, the Project has a partnership at international level. In addition, our Project includes international partnership to support mutual exchanges for educational cooperation at international level, remove obstacles, encourage innovation in education and contribute to common educational policy areas. The methodology will be based on "Learning by doing", the idea of experiential learning, which is learning by reflection on doing. Experiential learning’s focus is the individual learning process. a- Concrete experience: Either a new experience, or a re interpretation of existing experience, b- Reflective observation: Reviewing the experience, inconsistencies between understanding and experience, c- Abstract Conceptualisation: Refleciton may give a rise to a new idea or modification of existing concept, d- Active experimentation: Application of new concepts in the real world. It will be used a variety of training methods -case studies, demos, lectures, brainstorming, further reading, sharing experiences, small groups, simulations, practice by doing, teaching others, group discussions, thinking time, exercises, PPT presentations- to reach the target groups in a diverse manner.
Life-long learning is one of the most important subject of European Agenda. People always want to improve their living conditions during their life span. One of the best way to reach that target is to get new skills and competences. It can be done in many different ways. In today’s conditions, distance learning is an effective way of doing this. We live in a world today where using digital technologies has become a necessity. In normal circumstances, it is not a prefarable practice to fit learning into limited time and physical environments or to set an end for learning. Because, education is widely accepted as the process of nurturing the personality of individuals and investment in human resources constantly. Education involves the creation of behavioral changes in current learning, not only in the case of formal education, but also in non formal and informal education. It could be explained as “Lifelong Learning” in two words. The Project was prepared and realized according to the abovemetioned philosophy. During the project different types of organizations came together and cooperated not only to produce distance learning outputs but also to organize local and international activities for adults from disadvantaged social groups in order to support them with the basic skills needed for social life and social cohesion. It was thought at the beginning of the Project planning that there were some problems which the target groups facing continually in daily life. In this respect, during the Project local and international activities were organized and realized with people from local neighbourhood to develop basic skills with the help of seminars, meetings, training sessions and distance learning opportunities. With project activities and outputs, on personal level the learners had the chance to raise their self- confidence by developing their basic skills and competences for social cohesion and welfare. They had the opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and competences with activites and the distance training videos made under the titles of family life, healty living, social life and communication. The participants had also chances to improve their language skills during the Project. They saw the similarities and differences among the cultures, people and ways of living. Developed knowledge, good manners, social skills and competence to contribute to social welfare and harmony, improved attitudes, understanding and trait for self-actualization needs, developed democratic life consciousness for individual and social development and to contribute to social change, increased awareness of European values, equal and accessible opportunities for basic social skills, developed digital competencies were the prominent effects of the project observed on the target groups. The social changes brought by the globalization have taken social relations to international dimensions. For this reason, the Project had the partnership at international level. In addition, the international partnership supported mutual exchanges for educational cooperation at international level, removed obstacles, encouraged innovation in education and contributed to common educational policy areas. The methodology were based on the idea of experiential learning. A variety of training methods were used such as case studies, demos, lectures, brainstorming, sharing experiences, small groups, simulations, practice by doing, teaching others, group discussions, thinking time, exercises, PPT presentations to reach the target groups in a diverse manner. At end of the project duration 29 training videos were created under the titles of family life, healty living, social life and communication. The partners also produced the project short movie which includes and express the main idea of the Project itself. The outputs could be used not only by EU citizens but also by people who are from different countries of the world because of the structure of them. Also the training videos were prepared in both in English and Turkish. It helped to increase the number of the people that the Project adressed and targeted. The modules will be active for years and the number of the beneficiaries will be dublicated in years.