By implementing this project, we aimed to enhance the professional qualifications and increase the vocational motivation of the staff who worked with adult women within our Provincial Directorate. We also intended to improve the skills of women with low digital proficiency in order to meet their needs, enhance the digital skills of the personnel, enable them to transfer the acquired knowledge to the women receiving our services, and thus enhance the capacity of our Provincial Directorate to operate at the EU level. Our goal was to develop approaches tailored to women receiving our services. This way, we strove to increase women's digital literacy, facilitate their participation in social and economic life, enhance their access to all forms of communication, promote efficient and critical use of media, provide them with skills to combat cyberbullying, and prevent them from falling victim to online fraud. For women with children, we worked to facilitate the safe management of their children's interactions with digital tools.
Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Services (IFSS) is a local body of the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services responsible for the formulation and execution of policies for women, children, the elderly, the disabled, martyrs and families. Non-formal trainings are provided by professional staff (social workers, sociologists, psychologists, etc.) to adults who benefit from our services in our institutions. The subject of our project is to develop the digital skills of our professionals to transfer them to the women who benefit from our services, and thus to make the women who receive service more conscious about digital literacy. Within the scope of the project, 5 professional staff working in the field of women participated in the 5-day 'Digital Literacy for Adults' training in Huelva, Spain, and at the end of the course, the trainers prepared a training module with these learning outcomes and transferred this module to other professionals working in the field of women. Thus, the digital literacy skills of professionals working in the field of women and women receiving services have increased.