CYPRUS
ESTONIA
http://www.cypruscommunitymedia.org/
http://www.getonlineweek.eu/estonia/
For the first time Cyprus Community Media Centre,
as part of the project Generation 0101, supported
and arranged GOW 2015 activities in Cyprus. CCMC
in partnership with 6 other European NGOs and
Non-profit organisations, are collaborating to tackle
the issue of youth unemployment with project
Generation0101. The project aims to build ICT skills
and confidence of young people, and thus increase
their chances of finding work.
Among the activities, CCMC took up a table at
The Home Cafe on 26 March, where people could
come and learn about the Get Online Week as well
as participate with doing the online skills test and
other online activities. CCMC hosted a radio show
on MyCyRadio discussing digital empowerment and
digital inclusion in Cyprus and Europe.
DENMARK
http://www.getonlineweek.eu/denmark-2/
This year Telecentre-danmark coordinated the
GOW 2015 activities. GOW was made part of the
daily tuition at ICT centres for seniors and public
libraries throughout the country were supplied
with the GOW materials. The ICT centres are
experienced with the GOW campaign, as most
have participated in previous years. Approximately
50 ICT centres participated, some 240 volunteer
instructors and approximately 1,740 students
visited the ICT centres during the campaign week.
On March 26 awareness raising activities on e-skills
and the Skillage test run at the TEC – a technical
education center for young people between 18 to
29 years old.
Telecentre-danmark has made a national
agreement with the organization of Danish parish
churches to introduce and organise ICT telecentres
in connection to their local assembly Halls. This
will provide ICT opportunities to parts of the
population, normally difficult to reach.
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First time Estonia used a “Robotics-battle” format for
grown-ups. Participants were divided into teams of two
and each team had also a young mentor. Adults had 1
hour to fulfill 2 tasks: to build a Sumo-robot (using Lego
robotics) and to programme a robot to do certain tasks.
The aim of the event was to give hands-on practice and
show how exciting learning ICT can be. The main goal is
to have more after-school clubs that deal with ICT. They
should become as popular as singing and dancing clubs.
The event was very successful and was very effective
for media attention. For the politicians a white paper
was created to highlight the main benefits of kids
dealing with ICT from early on. It has a clear impact on
their future choices - educational and work related.
Smart Work Association recommends similar events to
other countries as well.
Watch an event video featured on Estonian TV channel.
GERMANY
Stiftung Digitale Chancen as official Get Online Week
partner in Germany opted this year for activities to
address both the topic of digital inclusion and the
topic of employability. While planning own workshops,
trainings, and events, they invited all telecentres in
their database to get involved and get people online.
As every year the GOW campaign is a big highlight
and many telecentres are excited to participate in
the German Get Online Week, organise events and
workshops.
Additionally, Stiftung Digitale Chancen organised,
next to workshops and trainings, three big events that
supported senior citizens with their first steps using
tablets, promoted coding to school kids and fostered
the employability of young people with the Internet
platform YouRock.Jobs. Furthermore, a regional GOW
campaign was launched by a course from the Technical
University in Dortmund who invited telecentres and
related organizations to take part in the activities and
become a GOW-network.
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http://www.getonlineweek.eu/germany/