The main objective of the Digital Explor’Her project was to promote the inclusion of women in the digital sector by enabling them to better understand its fundamentals and associated skills. By producing 20 short pre-training videos in French, English and Dutch, we popularised key topics (AI, SEO, cybersecurity, social media, etc.) to reduce barriers to orienting towards digital careers. We sought to address two linked challenges: limited access to clear, concise information and the feelings of illegitimacy reported by many women, especially those aged 35-55 and often in career transition. The free, online and pedagogical format was designed to spark curiosity, build confidence and encourage a first step towards more advanced training. Finally, the project aimed to deliver a practical, community-tested tool (tested with GIRLEEK and Social Builder), easily reusable by training centres, inclusion organisations and employers to support diversity in a sector facing a talent shortage. We also prioritised broad dissemination and monitoring — organising a launch forum and follow-up webinars, publicly hosting the materials, and collecting usage metrics and user feedback to inform future scaling and policy recommendations. We wanted to
We applied for this Erasmus+ project because GIRLEEK identified a persistent gap in accessible, practice-oriented digital learning resources for adult learners and frontline trainers, especially women aged 35-55 and staff at small NGOs and community organisations. During project preparation we observed that existing materials were often theoretical, language-specific or too long for short classroom sessions, which limited reuse in vocational pathways and low-threshold training contexts. Partners therefore aimed to produce a compact, multilingual set of pre-training videos and a ready-to-use pedagogical kit that trainers could easily integrate into existing programmes (e.g. Digistart) and that organisations could adapt locally. The project also responded to operational needs: trainers required standardized templates and subtitles to reduce translation workload, organisations needed measurable, reusable outputs to support employability pathways, and partners sought to harmonise pedagogical approaches across countries. In short, the application addressed both an educational need (short, practical, multilingual learning units and trainer kits) and an implementation need (scalable, time-efficient production and reuse by NGOs and train