The ICT project for women in rural areas is born from a partnership results of four NGOs: AgriNatura Foundation from Poland, Kisleptek from Hungary, AMA Centar from Serbia and EcoRuralis from Romania.The main objective of this project is the exchange of good practices between partners involved in educational activities in rural areas. The target group are women - rural areas inhabitants, very often lacking basic computer or Internet skills.The lack of these basic skills in the 21st century results in a specific social exclusion (digital exclusion). The project partners have clearly identified the need to educate this weaker and defavourised social group in order to bridge a growing gap between those more educated and those lacking the basic ICT skills. The project duration is planned for two years, with four international meetings, one in every partner country. The project includes local worshops carried out by each partner, on the topics of ICT education program in the field of the computer use, Internet, social media, the web security and the resources. An important element of the workshops will be to adapt the content to the local specifics and each partner activities. Some of this topics are: Internet and rural tourism, sales through Internet of local products (like Community Supported Agriculture systems) or seed exchange platform. The project results will include: 4 newsletters informing about 4 international meetings and the ICT Vademecum - guidelines for rural women developed by the partners. The guidelines will include: - a short computer course: Internet and social media usage - how to search for the information, security on the web - ICT is the key to the world: ubiquitous digitalization - Internet platforms: how to search an offer, how to place an offer, the seed swaps, how to sell a local product. All results will be available on the partners' websites in the national and English languages. The results will also be uploaded to the Erasmus + Project Results Platform. The project will have a wide reach and anyone interested in this topics will have the opportunity to use the developed materials.
The aim of the project activities was to exchange experiences by partners from 4 countries (PL, HU, RO, SRB) on the knowledge of ICT by women from rural areas, as well as to learn about barriers to access to ICT in this social group and to indicate the possibilities of development directions using ICT . The aim of the project, which was also achieved, was to increase the competences and knowledge of the project partners in this important issue and to establish transnational contacts with organizations, institutions and experts. Project activities have enabled partners to increase the ability to communicate and collaborate, which motivates partners to continue working together, building a much broader strategic partnership in Europe. The implementation of the project made it possible to raise the authority of each organization at the local, national and international level. Thanks to the project activities, it was possible to flow information from the international to the local level and vice versa. The issue of ICT and social inclusion has become an important topic for the project participants (direct and indirect) that should be dealt with at the local level.
The main goal of the project is the exchange of good practices between partners involved in activities in rural areas. The target group of the project are women from rural residents, often deprived of the ability to use a computer or the Internet. The lack of these basic skills in the 21st century causes social exclusion, known as digital exclusion. Project partners recognize the need to educate this vulnerable and disadvantaged social group so that the gap between educated members of society and those deprived of ICT key competences does not widen. As ICT is a valuable rural development tool that offers a wide range of opportunities and benefits Europe's countryside, developing such skills is extremely important. Access to the global network becomes essential for full functioning in society. The key elements are international meetings and local workshops and their local specificity related to the activities of a given partner organization. The project will also produce results in the form of Vademecum ICT and 4 Newsletters with information on partners' meetings.