Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one of ten best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we would like to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital word. Partners together agrred, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labor market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software is one of the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we would like build the capacity of partner organizations to develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We would like to create space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programming skills. The basic idea is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – school, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programming education, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners shall organize interesting IT lessons, but also allows (during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there is a new problem, new challenge, which Club has to solve together! Youth need to learn new thing about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges forces Youth to divide into smaller groups. They compete with each other to create best solution, this way they are stimulated to give all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project will include 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them will help them to be better teacher / educator / animator of ICT competences in their communities. Partner organization will receive grant to buy proper equipment, to lead innovative and interesting ICT workshops in their areas. During the Coders Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we would like to organize collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and import
Promoting active participation, cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue by encouraging youth mobility and workers, promoting social change and digital transformation through sustainable education and developing citizens' intercultural and digital competences. Additionally, the objectives aim to promote social change and digitalization as a catalyst for creativity and innovation by fostering partnerships between NGOs, education, research, and business to support digital skills.
Together with our partners, we wanted to promote GO_PRO! network, allowing Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labor market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion3. Innovative economy - creating software is one of the pillars of the innovation economy
<< Background >> Together with our partners, we wanted to promote GO_PRO! network, allowing Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labor market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion3. Innovative economy - creating software is one of the pillars of the innovation economy << Objectives >> Promoting active participation, cultural diversity, and intercultural dialogue by encouraging youth mobility and workers, promoting social change and digital transformation through sustainable education and developing citizens' intercultural and digital competences. Additionally, the objectives aim to promote social change and digitalization as a catalyst for creativity and innovation by fostering partnerships between NGOs, education, research, and business to support digital skills. << Implementation >> Within the project we created environment for developing various ICT skills (especially programming skills). We organized two mobilities in order to boost ICT methodologies of trainers (especially with LOFI sets, Scottie GO!, Photon). By developing and publishing training materials and board game we also supported open education resources. We were able to develope GO_PRO! network in all partnership NGO's, we organized joint event during European Code Week. << Results >> - 842 representatives of local communities (teachers, local government, NGOs, etc.) were reached by dissemination activities. They incrised knowledge on importance of development ICT skills amongst Youth and will learn some ideas, how to do so.- Through training and by practical implementation of two mobilities almost 1691 YW and youth were directly involved in GO_PRO! workshops - cooparation within GO_PRO! network was expanded