Partners of the project have come for the 4th Management Meeting to Vilnius, Lithuania on April 28, 2011.
Project status and deliverables have been discussed. The meeting has been followed by the Train the Trainers event on April 29-30.
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4th Management Meeting held in Vilnius, Lithuania
End Users Pilot for Immigrants, CYPRUS September 2011
The workshop for immigrants was held at EDITC premises at Nicosia, Cyprus on the 9th, 10th , and 16th of September 2011. We had 7 participants which are working immigrants from Sri Lanka.
There were 3 trainers at the workshop, Maria Knais, Christina Shiati and Athena Knais. All three trainers participated in the ice breaking games as well as the creation of the story board. Christina Shiati and Athena Knais delivered the parts of the picture editing, video creation and voice recording.
The workshop was an empowering experience for the participants and seven videos were the end product of this effort.
End Users Pilots for Economically Inactive Women and Unemployed People, CYPRUS June 2011
The workshop for unemployed and inactive women was held at EDITC premises in Nicosia, Cyprus on the 10th, 14th , and 16th of June 2011. There were 3 trainers at the workshop, Maria Knais, Christina Shiati and Athena Knais. All three trainers participated in the ice breaking games as well as the creation of the story board. Christina Shiati and Athena Knais delivered the parts of the picture editing, video creation and voice recording.
The feedback we got from the participants was that the workshop offered them creativity, new ICT skills and empowerment. They have stated that it was the most fun to attend workshop.
End Users Training completed in Lithuania
In September 6-9 Lithuanian project partner - Social and Economic Development Centre has organised end users training for 14 participants. The training was organised in a resort town of Lithuania - Druskininkai.
Our local trainers Kamile, Rugile, Erika and Mindaugas have been working with two groups of trainees simultaneously.
Majority of trainees were elderly unemployed women. All the participants have enjoyed the training a lot.
Second workshop of DigEm project in Santander, España September 2011.
From the 8th to the 14th of September 2011, the Spanish partner of the DigEm project (Digital Empowerment), DOCUMENTA, implemented the second workshop of storytelling in the municipal training center of Barrio Pesquero in Santander.
The main aim of DigEm is spreading the alternative training methodologies to acquire skills through new technologies. The target group is people that are disengaged with the learning process. In this case, the participants were disabled people, groups with learning difficulties, associations and social entities.
They created digital stories on their personal experiences. The trainees developed their communication skills through story-telling, photography, music, videos and audio recordings. The videos they created can be visited on the official website of the project (www.digem.eu).
This workshop was attended by eight trainees. They came from Down Syndrome Foundation, the Association for Persons with Aphasia, and professionals of social services. The working atmosphere was excellent and all participants created their own videos. The trainees showed great satisfaction and enthusiasm for DigEm method (which strengthened their social and digital skills). They declared that they would like to continue to use creative DigEm methods and techniques for digital stories in their daily live.
Gema Díaz Dominguez, Councilor of Employment and Business Development, Roberto del Pozo, Councilor of Personal Autonomy, and Javier Farto, president of DOCUMENTA attended to the closing activity. They gave the certificates of attendance and they watched some of the videos made by the participants during the workshop.
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