The project is created and designed for adult learners at the age of 18- 65 from 4 adult training centers in Turkey, Lithuania, İtaly and Portugal. By involving these 4 partners, mobilities will be organized during 2 years. The particpants will consist of inactive women and housewives. It concentrates on developing the cooperation between learners and trainers from partner countries and also between experts and masters of the handicrafts. The aim of this cooperation is to increase professional handicraft skills of the project participants. Learners, by taking part in the project and learning about the different traditional and cultural handicrafts, will acquire skills increasing their chances in their occupational market. The project gives the opportunity to reveal and develop their skills with creative thinking. Furthermore, it is a unique opportunity for the learners to acquire new skills as there is no organization providing ICT trainings, English courses, Entrepreneurship lessons and handicraft courses for adults in these contents. The video courses in this project, targeting the learners of all ages, will be translated into partners languages and distributed as online open courses. During the progress of the project, the partners will organize training courses on the handicrafts that they are best at. Topics of the courses will be strictly connected with the project's activities: ceramic, textile, souvenirs and 3D paper folding. The methodology of the course is based on a model that develops its activities through handicraft developments. The participants become the center of the model and the process of learning. The outcomes will be training materials ready for the use of adult training centers around partners. During the two year of the project, impact and dissemination will be the main goal by sharing as much as possible at local, national and international levels. Besides, using outcomes as handicraft course, curriculums will be sustainable during the following years in each one of the partnership' organizations . At the end of the project we hope to offer exchange development of innovation through the activities among the partners.
Start up Business Entrepreneurial of Inactive Women and Housewives Through Handicraft Skills project is designed and created to support the women self-employment and other employment opportunities through improving the handicraft skills of the participants with the training courses organized in Turkey, Lithuania, Italy and Portugal, as well to provide a wider target group with online handicraft video training courses and online teacher community discussion portal. The project is based on 3 Transnational Meetings, 4 Training Courses in partner countries, Online Open Course (IO1) and Online Teacher Community (IO2) and other project activities such as dissemination activities and multiplier events. 1 coordinator and 3 partner organizations involved in the project sent 6 participants to each training course. The participants are carefully selected among the unemployed volunteer female adult handicraft learners at partner organizations. All project activities including the task distribution, planning of the training courses, enriching the content of training courses, multiplier events, intellectual outputs and dissemination were discussed and updated during the 3 transnational meetings in partner countries. The participants gained and improved their 3D Paper Folding, Home Textile Products, Jewellery and Accessories, and Ceramics&Pottery handicraft skills during the training courses. The project has a great impact on the self-employment of the participants as expected during the project period. One of the participants started her own online business. With this online marketing she is now selling various handicraft products as well as complementary accessories and goods. Another participant also started to market her handicraft products through different channels. One of the participants also started to sell her products and she even started to support the children with fewer opportunities. The other participants are also expected to start their own business or earn a living. Another impact of the project is the visibility of the traditional arts, specially Ottoman Kati Art, increased and started to become popular. The exhibition that was organized during the multiplier event was visited by many other people, as well as the participants. In the longer term, this visibility impact is expected to increase as the project products will continue to be available both on the project web site and the youtube channel.