The project has delivered an innovative training system based on interactive tools, helping adults to acquire basic knowledge of computer programming and promote an active and conscious usage of IT tools in households. These training materials have covered a wide range from the basics of digitalization, computational thinking and using everyday examples to develop algorithms (targeted to non-digital users) to the actual development of code through the use programming languages and through the use of specific tools and games targeted to coding with children. The developed materials will help users improve their digital and transversal skills and their ability to support their children in the use of ICT. According to the “The Survey of Adult Skills” (EC-PIAAC) the function of adult education should be to support economic growth and competitiveness, assure inclusive and equitable development, provide socio-economic benefit, but also individual benefits, in terms of personal and professional development, empowerement, adaptability, employability and active participation in society.This is exactly what the present project has done, by promoting coding education among European adult learners and by working together with international activities such as code-week.org . The EDUCODE consortium has operated under the principle that coding education is not only about equipping the current and next generation to work as software engineers, it is about promoting computational thinking, i.e. a problem solving method that uses computer science techniques. It combines mathematics, logic and algorithms, and teaches a new way to think about the world. The direct target group is composed of adult people of any age and status, workers, parents, retired. However, the development of contents and tools has catered for the needs of specific sub-groups, such as women (trough the case studies provided) by ECWT, men and young adults. Representatives of the end-beneficiaries, about 200 per country, 1000 in total, have been involved in several stages of the project: during the initial in-depth analysis of adult learners attitude to coding, in the delivery and assessment of the training and in the framework of demonstration events. Moreover, the partners will organise local contests to stimulate participation and creativity.Indirect target groups are the stakeholders that can exploit the results in different contexts and have been reached mainly through dissemination and exploitation activities: Each partner has developed further contacts both within the time-frame and after the training and educational centres, schools, civil society organisaitons, public authorities and decision-makers. They can use the platform, contents and games to organise courses and events on coding education, to train teaching staff or to promote digital learning towards policy-makers. Thanks to dissemination activities, the knowledge of the project has reached more than 5.000 people and 2000 organisations.The main tangible result has been an interactive, multifunctional and multilingual platform for adult coding education.The user-friendly platform hosts contents targeted to the users. Moreover, the training path offers quizzes for assessment of the acquired knowledge and also practical exercises and gadgets to be used with children and teenagers, so as to favour intergenerational learning.The expected result was to promote digital learning and key competences of adult people in Europe, in line with the Agenda for Adult Learning, set up by the European Commission.As for intangible expected results in the medium and long term, the foreseen outcomes are the following:•Improvement of personal skills and motivation of adult learners through coding education•Favouring active participation and better understanding of the digital world we live in •Improved professional opportunities as basic coding skills is also needed for many jobs, plus it helps developing transversal skills such as problem solving that are needed in any job (including the basics of digital skills)•Favouring the promotion of non-formal and informal learning among adult people usually excluded from mainstream and traditional education pathways.• Improved intergenerational learning and safer usage of ICT by kids and adults. By using the practical tools to code and play on coding with their children, parents have the opportunity to teach their kids the basics of computer programming, be more prepared in supporting their children homework, play a more active role in assisting their kids when using technology devices. The project is implemented by a consortium of 7 partners from 5 European countries (SP, IT, GR, PL, NO), including foundations, schools, adult education providers, civil society organisations, software house and university.

The project is based on a key idea: an innovative approach that seeks to promote and make visible good practices of entrepreneurs and innovative women, coming from vulnerable groups and / or the rural environment, training them to promote that they can be able to use all kinds of tools and digital services at their disposal, to help them to develop their skills, build and implementate these tools, generate opportunities, as well as stimulate the development of new solutions and alternatives in relation to entrepreneurship and employment. The aim is to encourage and improve entrepreneurship and employment of women from vulnerable groups and / or rural areas through training in the use and use of technological tools and services. In addition to this training to the educated, the project also seeks to train trainers and workers in the field of adult education, so that not only handle such tools, but at the same time, will be able to promote their use and expose their advantages. This project will also make visible the technological leadership of gender, promoting an accurate image of the innovative and entrepreneurial capacities of women. On the other hand, this project is based on an idea that is already underway in Spain at the national level, the InnovadorasTIC project, which can now grow and extend its reach, taking this proven methodology to other countries and women, achieving fruitful results. international contacts between beneficiaries and organizations, which will promote European culture, the exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge, and solidarity between countries. Finally, the project fits in with the Sustainable Development Goals, and especially with objectives 5, 8 and 10. In particular, goal 5 (Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls) is the axis in around which the whole idea orbits, seeking to reduce the gender gap in the use and access to new information technologies. This only emphasizes the need for the project to be conceived transnationally, to help alleviate a gap, that of gender, which is presented transversally, and which coexists with inequalities of another type between territories. At the same time, work at European and international level allows improving management skills, cooperation between entities from different countries and promoting the integration and adaptation of various educational practices.

EMERGE is an EU Erasmus+ project bringing together project partners and experts from Poland, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, and Ireland. This project aims to increase the number of female entrepreneurs in engineering by transforming their access to and the quality of the training they receive from Entrepreneurship, VET & HEI institutions.Increasing the number of female entrepreneurs is a key priority in the EU for reasons linked to economic and social development. The lack of female entrepreneurs is particularly evident in the field of Engineering. Despite high profile role models, overall female innovativeness and participation in the engineering sector have decreased, and ‘an unconscious bias’ still prevails.Poland, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, and Turkey are among the countries that have introduced measures to improve the institutional framework for female enterprise, but more needs to be done to overcome individual barriers, making sure that sure the small but growing number of females studying/working in Engineering are helped to identify entrepreneurial opportunities and build their business skills. The problem is that our VET and HEI institutions are ill-equipped to do so: most are unspecialized in the specific strategies that are shown to work best with female entrepreneurs; their staff is trained in generic/traditional business models (not Engineering specific) and they are not connected to universities/HE institutions to recruit graduate females emerging from Engineering subjects.The EMERGE online community, learning resources, and training events connect users to expert knowledge and advice. The first step is to join the EMERGE online social media community of engineers, lecturers, business advisors, and education providers.

The objective of the project is to design, develop and implement a capacity-building strategy to increase the capacity of the financial ecosystem and its participants in South, Central and Eastern European countries for provision and absorption of alternative forms of financing (AF) for innovative SMEs Sub objectives and outputs: 1: To map and analyse the framework conditions and establish the capacity-building strategy and implementation plan • Capacity building strategy and implementation plan for South and Central and Eastern Europe, in particular PT, ES, IT, LT, PL, SK, HU, RO, UA (consortium presence), GR, LT, SLa, CZ, HR, BG, RS; BA, AL, MK (consortium outreach) • Validation with 120 participants • Adapted strategy and plan in line with assessment 2: To provide cross-European information architecture with materials, resources and online tools for capacity building and matching of innovative SMEs to AF schemes and their providers • ALTFInator web platform with interactive library and information, matching and data exchange tool set: 3: To engage and broaden the stakeholder community, complemented by equal increase of knowledge, capacity and partnerships in support of provision and absorption of AF for innovative SMEs • Awareness raising campaigns focusing on 3 600 key stakeholders • 8 national workshops with 240 participants • 2 international best practice workshops with 60 participants • 8 public roundtables with 40 participants each • Policy makers hearing at the EuroParl with 30 participants. • MOOCs for AF providers with 500 participants • 4 webinars for group coaching of SMEs with 120 participants 4: To review the impact of the implementation and provide the evidence-base for adaption and sustainability of the scheme in the light of experience • KPI´s 5: To provide stakeholders at European and International level, with the information concerning the ALTFInator activities, events, achievements, respective web platform, material and tools • Outreach to 100.