Get Online Week 2012 is a digital inclusion campaign on 26th-30th March in Telecentres: public internet centres in NGOs, libraries & education venues.

The campaign is organised by Telecentre-Europe AISBL supported by the European Commission and a number of international organisations, including Microsoft, Liberty Global, European Broadcasting Union and Telecentre.org.

Get online week 2012 will help people to get online, find work, learn new essential ICT skills, and get more out of life. It will bring together 5.000 telecentres in at least 50 countries across Europe, Eurasia and Africa to support at least 200.000 people in their online journeys. This year, the telecentre networks involved will use new learning products that will support the themes of intergenerational learning, youth employability, active aging, civic participation, social engagement and women in ICT.

Esplai Foundation, as a founding member and partner of Telecentre_Europe.org Community Telecentres Association of Spain, once again, is actively involved in preparing the 2012 GOW training will take place in all call centers of the Spanish network of telecentres.

In Spain, Esplai Foundation is the entity responsible for the training at national level, which is focused on improving employability through ICT, based in the European Key Competences for all (KC4all), doing it in cascade; in other words, first of all we are going to train facilitators and coordinators in order to show them some tools and guides to use during the GOW course.

After that, during the Get Online Week, facilitators will train end users at local level using these tools.

Our activities will be focused on promoting the improvement of the employability of people who come to the telecentre. We will do it using an ICT tool which was designed by Fundación Esplai in order to help facilitators to evaluate ICT competences of end users.

To learn more about this training, we invite you to follow the following link: Spanish Toolkit.

During the plenary session, Pedro Aguilera from Esplai Foundation, Spain (the project coordinator) first explained the importance of an online multilanguage employment toolkit. Then, Gabriel Rissola and Andrea Diaz from D-O-T, Spain presented the multi-country analysis performed through the project and Mara Jakobsone from LIKTA, Latvia showcased the pilot testing coordinated by her organisation.

To conclude, Elena Lanzoni from Interface3, Belgium explained the methodology used for building the employment toolkit.

During the workshop session that followed, Mara Jakobsone presented the project guidelines for new users and how to exploit & disseminate the employment toolkit. Andra Jakobsone from LIKTA demonstrated the handbook and Alina Zamfir from EOS, Romania explained the exploitation and valorisation plan.

At the end of the workshop session, Pedro Aguilera from Esplai Foundation, Spain lead the discussions regarding the adaptation of the toolkit in other languages, the cultural differences and the process for hosting other language versions on the project website. Gabriel Rissola from D-O-T, Spain informed the audience about available funding for national up-takings of the toolkit.

At the closing session, Pedro Aguilera summed up the next steps and actions to undertake with the European network of telecentres regarding the employment toolkit.

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The first Digital Agenda Assembly took place in Brussels on 16^th and 17^th June 2011, being organized by the European Commission.

The Digital Agenda for Europe is the European Union’s road map for bringing the benefits of a digital society and economy to Europe’s citizens. But it can only deliver if all stakeholders are involved in assessing problems and identifying solutions.

The KC4All partnership had a strong representation during the event:

- a presentation of KC4all was delivered at the Workshop 20 “Digital Literacy and e-Inclusion” (17 June 2011) as a good example of partnership. Thanks to that, a potential British beneficiary was identified for the exploitation phase

- distribution of 100 brochures to participants

- distribution of 20 KC4all leaflets to participants at the breakout group on “e-Inclusion and Employability”

Dr. Bastian Pelka and Dr. Christoph Kaletka from Technical University of Dortmund will deliver a paper on the “First International Workshop on Social Innovation and Social Media (SISoM 2011)” on 21st July in Barcelona. They will speak about “Social media revisited. User generated content as a social innovation” and will place the KC4all outputs into the big picture of using web 2.0 for social inclusion.

For more information please visit:
http://produccionmultimedia.barcelonamedia.org/?p=1724
https://sites.google.com/site/sisom2011/program

All partner organizations from six European countries were all represented in Timisoara. In addition, 14 facilitators from Spain, UK, Belgium, Latvia and Romania, involved in piloting the Employment toolkit attended a paralel workshop. This workshop was organized in order to present the results of the piloting phase and to propose improvement suggestions to the toolkit.

The project management team discussed a number of issues related to the implementation of the project, including work-package developement, the piloting phase, dissemination, exploitation, financial and legal issues.

Based on the conclusions of the piloting phase, final improvements are now being implemented, and the toolkit will be officially launched both at national and European level during the next few months.

More details about the launching will follow soon.

Members of Telecentre-Europe and KC4All partners attended an employability-dedicated workshop where the employment toolkit lifted up the interest of a number of telecentre networks in Asia, Africa and South America. Telecentre-Europe is exploring with these networks the possibility to have the toolkit replicated in more languages and geographical areas.

Moreover, Telecentre-Europe organized a workshop during the event, where the Employment Toolkit and the Key Competences for All project were the audience was informed about the Employment Toolkit concept and about the overall approach of the Key Competences for All project.

One of the main themes of the Summit was related to employability and to the Employment Toolkit developed through the Key Competences for All project. Telecentre-Europe provides a comprehensive Europe wide perspective to the project and the network represents an efficient platform for dissemination and valorisation of the project deliverables and outcomes.

The meeting was organized and chaired by the UK project partner – LASA.

13 participants coming from all partner organizations, discussed and agreed upon a series of important issues over the two days of the meeting.

• Results of the research performed earlier this year were presented to all participants, as well as a progress overview of actions since the Riga meeting.
• Partners discussed and agreed features and details of the toolkit design. The toolkit structure will be revised accordingly and the toolkit final version will be ready by March 2011.
• The testing phase of the existent toolkit version to be implemented throughout November 2010 – February 2011. During this time, a handbook / guidelines for telecentre facilitators will be produced in order to ease the delivery of the toolkit in telecentres accross Europe. More than that, a Frequently Asked Questions section will be available on the toolkit web platform, from April 2011 onwards.
• Toolkit launch events at national level to take place during March-April 2011. Official launch at the European level to happen during May-June 2011.
• Next project meeting will take place in Timisoara, Romania, and will be organized by EOS.