ICT Go-Girls! project

ICT-Go-Girls! Project. 526590-LLP-1-2012-1-ES-COMENIUS-CMP

ICT-Go-Girls!

Promoting Entrepreneurship among Secundary School Girls through ICT

526590-LLP-1-2012-1-ES-COMENIUS-CMP

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Multilateral Project co-funded by the European Commision, under LLP programme / Comenius


Project Partners

Galicia Supercomputing Centre, Spain(Coordinator)

Santiago de Compostela Uni, Spain

Die Berater, Austria

Społeczna Akademia Nauk, Poland

Franhoffer IAO-Stuttgart Uni, Germany

Donau-Universität

Krems, Austria

CVO Antwerpen-Zuid. Belgium


Project Partners

Galicia Supercomputing Centre, Spain(Coordinator)

Santiago de Compostela Uni, Spain

Die Berater, Austria

Społeczna Akademia Nauk, Poland

Franhoffer IAO-Stuttgart Uni, Germany

Donau-Universität

Krems, Austria

CVO Antwerpen-Zuid. Belgium


Associated Partners

• Educational Administrations:– Galicia Ministry of Education. Spain– Galician Gender Equality Office. Spain– Dept of Education and Training of

Queensland (Australia)• 2 Public Secondary Schools

– from each country: Spain, Austria, Poland, Germany, Belgium

• Companies:– IBM Spain

• Associations:– Galicia Computer Engineers Association.

Spain


Main Goal

Empowering girls with the knowledge, skills

and values to help them be able to create future opportunities for innovation and quality ICT related employment.

By Geoff Stearns,, via Wikimedia Commons

Assorted-photo-guy CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0, via Wikimedia Commons


Objectives (I)

• Produce a methodology and learning toolkit for secondary schools to promote ICT and entrepreneuship among their female students

• Improve teachers methodologies to promote entrepreneurship and ICT skills among school girls and deliver them support tools

• Increase ICT skills for educational issues among school girls

• Show the empowerment potential of ICTs to girls in order to face their future choices in studies and work.


Objectives (II)

• Improve the following cross-curricular skills: Initiative, Group work, Language learning

• Encourage cooperation between the worlds of education, training and work.

• Establish a sustainability plan involving business, ICT related institutions, schools and administrations to create a stable network to pursue the main goal of the project Europe-wide.


Working methodology

• Research and analysis of previous initiatives.

• Develop methodology• Development of social platform & pilot course

contents• 2 pilots in 5 countries for secondary school girls• Evaluation of experience, tools, project

• Dissemination & exploitation plan


European added value

ICT-Go-Girls has a European approach rather than a national approach.

Many national studies and experiences have been made, but today work and entrepreneurship cannot be understood locally but Europewide or Worldwide, learning methodologies should also focus this way.


Work Packages

WP1. Project Management

WP2. Analysis previous studies / initiatives

WP3. Methodology Development

WP4. Learning and Teaching Resources

WP5. Social Web Based Platform

WP6. Pilot experiences in Schools

WP7. Evaluation

WP8. Exploitation

WP9. Dissemination & Outreach


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Any Questions?Maria R. Malmierca, coordinator

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