"From 2013 to 2015 a European project was held (in Italy promoted, among others, by the Beniamino Cooperative, in close collaboration with the Slow Food Island Elba Convivium and the Porto Azzurro House of Reclusion). The project which had the title ""Taste of Freedom"" also involved some foreign partners, including Lithuania, Turkey, Portugal and the island of Gran Canaria.From that experience emerged the need to open a reflection on the role of vocational training and work in the prison system and on experiences of local roots as a resource for greater effectiveness of the training system aimed at risky social categories such as that of the detainees. From these assumptions was born the project Cooking for freedom that aims to build and promote training programs in partner countries with the aim of stimulating synergies aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the integration capacity of the prison and training system.The project partners have identified and shared some premises without which it is difficult to think that professional training in prison can become a real opportunity for reintegration:• given the particularity of the reference target, there is the risk that training will become a mere filling activity, with a low rehabilitation and reintegration value;• vocational training activities require the strong support of a network external to the prison institution because only in this way can they be really effective;• often some paths may be affected by the subjective difficulties expressed by the subjects to whom they are addressed, linked to their particular condition and lack of familiarity with structured working contexts;• on many occasions there is a risk of corporate distrust about the potential of the recipients and the effectiveness of the courses;• the possibility, also for young people included in the classical training courses, to integrate their collaboration with institutional realities and experiment in integration paths, can increase empowerment and investment in their training path.Following the analysis and sharing of the main problems identified, concrete objectives of the project are:• create and test models of pilot training courses, built with the collaboration between the prison institution, educational institutions and a wide territorial network of associations and companies that deal with catering and food;• develop strategic skills of qualified personnel in order to achieve integration among the various organizations, to identify the needs of the labor market and achieve the final objective in relation to them;• develop a network, also at EU level, capable of promoting the reintegration of trained prisoners into work;• promote the exchange of best practices between the partnership, reproducible and useful at European level, in order to promote adult learning processes in detention and a more effective collaboration between the prison institution and training institutions;• gathering useful recommendations to support effective labor policies and the inclusion of disadvantaged adults;• promote internships and internships that integrate the presence of subjects coming from classical training courses and adult subjects coming from specific training courses.The project partners were chosen according to different criteria. Some of them participated in the previous project ""Taste of Freedom"" and for this reason they wanted to take part in a new project that somehow was the continuation and deepening (Cooperative Beniamino, Slow Food Elba Island, Turkey, Portugal). Other partners were contacted on the basis of their experiences in prison and in training. In fact, in the context of Cooking for Freedom, Lithuania is also involved, with an association that takes care of reintegrating it to work through the management of a salad restaurant bar in Vilnius. Each partner, however, operates at various levels within the prison institutions of their country of origin.As part of the partnership, the tasks necessary to carry out the project were well distributed according to the skills of each one:- Skills in research and quality control- Ability to contact international institutions to disseminate results- Ability to carry out high quality training for social workers- Ability to disseminate and evaluate the results of the project.In each partner country, dissemination and dissemination initiatives have been organized and the website that collects the experiences made is active. Furthermore, the Guide for Guidelines for the organization of professional courses in prison is being drafted, a goal of the project."

We created this project in order to increase the ICT ability of students and teachers.With this project we aimed to increase the rate of in class technologies which is used by teachers and students.When we first write this project the FATIH project ,which is the biggest jump of Turkish Educational System in the history, had just finished. The legs of the FATIH for the vocational education was missing or unplanned.The other reason of why we wrote this project is to create a project which is complementary to the FATIH project to include the students and teachers of vocational schools.Each of those students and teachers were given tablet to use in the classes but none of them were using those tablets or their own smartphones for the educational purposes.As expressed in the project form today’s students are digital native.When they were born the digital technologies were already exist.So, when we plan the curriculum of the schools it is obligatory to include the digital technologies into the lesson plan as helpful tools.Still many vocational schools don’t use in class technologies effectively.Our project was a work having innovative objectives which are VoGoP(Vocational Good Practices Platform),the statistical data bases with the SPSS and Effective Use of ICT Classes Guidebook.Each of our intellectual outputs meets different needs of teachers and students in vocational schools.We created all of our intellectual outputs in 5 languages which are English, Italian, Slovenian, Romanian and Turkish in order to reach as many students and teachers as possible.In our project, our objectives were to disseminate the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology), to attract teachers and the students to ICT and to create a platform in which they can share their works with each other.In the scope of the project we organized many meetings and different activities.In this meetings many people who are related with vocational education involved in.the number of the participants who participated to international meetings and training is 73.Those activities were organized in Turkey as well as Romania,Slovenia and Italy.Basically,in our project every partner represented different field of vocational education.For example,while Mehmet Erdemoğlu MTAL and Yıldırım Beyazit MTAL are mostly interested in the fields of ICT, Electric and electronic technologies on the other side Grm Novo Mesto mostly interested in the field of animal husbandry and farming.There were plenty of vocational fields' diversity so we could determine many fields needs in our works with the partners.We selected our participants according to the following criteria;expertise on the current activities, related or similar activity or activities before , able to work in team, communication skill, open and have desire to innovative improvements, English speaking capacity,the number of international projects, know how to approach students, volunteering to advance in his/her field and different vocational field.We had many activities which were mostly successful. We had 4 transnational meetings, 1 international meeting, 4 multiplier events and a vast number of dissemination activities in 4 different countries. We had also some meetings with locals in Van, Reggio Emilia, Alexandria and Novo Mesto. In those meetings we met with educational authorities, decision makers, students and teachers from different schools and people from different backgrounds.We have experienced and observed many difference on participants,participating organisations,target group and education authorities not only in Van but also in Alexsandria,Reggio Emilia and Novo Mesto.First of all the participants of this project had different experiences from activities in domestic and abroad.The most of the changes on them have been with their vocational improvements. now our participants know many thing about vocational improvement in Europe and in the World. They know how to help the students be part of the labor market by using their ICT skills into their fields of expertise.the participants who were mostly teachers in vocational schools improved their ICT skills.Now they can use their ICT skills more productive. Our participants met different experts on ICT in content meetings as well as in training and activities in their countries.Those activities made them be more aware from ICT technologies in every field of vocational education. The mentioned activities promoted them to find themselves sufficient in ICT area in their field. So they produced a positive attitude toward using ICT technologies in their domain.We carried out very fruitful project not only for the participated countries but also for all Europe. Because with our ambitious intellectual outputs we believe we can leave inerasable mark on vocational education. VoGoP is going to continue to serve even after the project is over. ICT Classes Guidebook can go on showing the teachers the most suitable ICT tools to use in each clas