@homeWork targets inactive women and housewives for developing their skills in utilising smart phones, tablets and computers for giving them the opportunity to develop their competencies on fashion design as a hobby. Two phase skills' development online training is enhanced by employing avatars.Thus the project has several tools to achieve its goal: Develop a learning content to boost skills of inactive women in new technologies to let them better utilise smart phones, tablets and PCs, develop a m-Learning content to guide them to develop their competencies in fashion design for hobby purposes, develop an online guide where they can utilise Web and social media for their fashion design hobby, end up with scalable and expandable platform compatible with all existing and upcoming technology, a/v, gaming supported with avatars e-Training and e-Guiding content. Project outputs were disseminated mostly via strong women NGOs active at European level, peer to peer workshops with more NGOs to boost the exploitation. Results were tested during multiplier events and their expand-ability to other hobby areas compatible to the project idea was validated. Project concentrates on inactive women, who are classified neither as employed nor as unemployed; in other words, who are capable of being employed but not seeking for a job because of various personal or family responsibilities and reasons. Young women taking care of their newly born babies are one of the significant examples of this target group. Project concerns developing hobbies of this target group, because hobbies are extremely important in everybody's lives; and even more important for those who are forced to stay at home, to relieve stress and boredom, keep away from depression and keep youthful. Women have a natural talent towards fashion and majority of women enjoy the design implicitly; when they decorate their houses, when they dress on; when when they do make up, and many more. To make this activity better organised, project supports them to utilise existing technological tools, mobiles, tablets as well as social media and Web based tools for developing their competencies and enjoy their hobbies. This surely affected their overall skills in a very positive manner and made them more compatible with high speed growing technology.Coordinator AGE has a great experience in hobby purposed courses,National research center INCSMPS has an experience on target group as well as social needs for self-development at EU scale, Europe wide Women NGO ZARIF has a wide women associations network in Europe, and disseminates the project within European women NGOs, ICT and e-VET developer e-BL is offering state of the art technological Web based solutions to the project and do a user friendly training infrastructure, world leader shoe industry leader union CTCP who are offering extensive fashion design at every level is sharing their experiences, one of the most European oriented women organizations in Turkey, TAKIDD is spreading the project in their network in Turkey and other Turkish republics, Central Europe VET oriented foundation MOJMIR is supporting the content development. More ICT oriented women population was the aim, by encouraging them to use recent technology for their hobbies, more healthy inactive women, who are better prepared to meet with working life in future, in case they decide to resume as they will develop their ICT skills via their hobbies. This will help to self-development of inactive women in a long run too and motivating more ICT based hobbies to grow.

"In recent years, the virtual form of a business activity has notably increased. The importance of this form is growing, because the nature of the enterprise, which becomes a place that combines a variety of ideas, concepts, designs and technologies, is changing. This is particularly important in micro and small enterprises. The creative and entrepreneurial potential of women is a latent source of economic growth and new jobs and should be encouraged by creating favorable conditions, support facilities and mechanisms and providing them with relevant e-training opportunities. One of the best ways to stimulate business development and personal growth is through ""virtual working"".""Virtual working"", that is, worker is not necessarily be moved to job site or to an office or premises where particular service is needed. These tasks are also strongly personal time, skill, knowledge and effort oriented.Moreover, many countries are bringing in several attractive regulations for virtual working, say home based working; including income tax exemptions to some thousands Euros level, free or reduced rate social insurance and indemnity insurance including pension. Turkey is one of the leading country in this theme in parallel to new laws and regulations which have been introduced during late 2018 and during the fresh months of 2019. Same encouragement are well visible in partner countries. Delivering the possible virtual services are very well suitable for “home based"" micro entrepreneurship. As inactive women are suitable part of the population which confirms to this new trend from the most aspects and inactivity is forming around 26.7% of European population, there is not a real development targeting this group in this new field of cloud based training and virtual working/employment.Hence, the philosophy of this project is the verification of employment channels where someone can actually talk about “an advantage of being at home in this unique virtual business channel” and develop efficient and effective e-Training model and material for inactive women to become e-entrepreneur at their homes.FlexWork model will be market oriented training and directly link e-Training to e-Working. It will definitely help to inactive women to come back to working life. For this purpose, nine partners came together from six countries having different natures changing from HEI, ICT, e-VET, R/D fields and to women NGOs, for having complete professions be together to realize FlexWork idea. Pilot e-Training will be model for developing more virtual activities e-Training material in the future.The design includes two sections of inactive women who have a desire to re-integrate (or integrate) themselves to the labor market; first section are those with lower educational qualifications, no or limited former experience, maybe just stepping into to the labor market, but have a talent, some basic skills, have a real desire and open for self-training, who will be future home office owners ""start-ups""; the second section are those who have been away from the labor market for some time; or already running a home office, have a former experience, accumulated knowledge and business oriented background but can not re-engage to working life because of various reasons making them inactive, ""guide women"". FlexWork plans to furnish a methodological e-training framework for both parties, so that guide women will support and guide start-ups when they launch to virtual working environment; establishing flexible working opportunity for both parties.Market oriented e-Training will be developed following the state of the art need analysis employing many diverse surveys targeting start-ups, guide women and also market players, and resulting e-training will be applied to target groups via FlexPort portal supported with associated mobile app, with the further aid of e-Handbook tool. Field tests will be carried out in parallel to exploitation activities and dissemination oriented multiplier events, and the result will be released as a model report and paper based on correlations of initial surveys' and feedbacks' received during the trials. Moreover, possibility and applicability of academic courses targeting ""virtual working"" will be questioned/discussed during activities and events for preparation of minds in HEI environment.FlexWork claims that flexible form virtual work is antidote of inactivity, and in medium and long term this model will be able to solve inactivity problem in EU, in parallel to technological developments; knowing that many conventional job positions will be replaced by either robots or artificial intelligence oriented platforms; such as mobiles are doing simultaneous translations and they will replace this job position after being developed further; virtual working will be more common in the form of home offices. The less inactivity rate in societies will definitely mean more wealth, which is the core of all targets of nations."

"The aim of the project ip4women is to improve gender balance and reduce the gender gap in patenting of inventions. Statistics show a gender gap in patent applications between female and male patent applicants. This highlights a contradiction since the people within academic and scientist area are almost equal from gender point of view, especially Ph.D. owners level and this equality should be reflected in patent applications.The project consortium approached this challenge by introducing a web based platform with patent e-mentoring concept training both mentors and mentees. Female inventors were e-trained and/or e-mentored to increase their abilities and potential of applying patent applications and the platform supplies also more enhanced initial and continuous training for those who would want to be a patent e-mentors for women in work- based environment. The project started with performing a user need study in order to provide a platform with content adapted to the target group. The platform with it’s content was presented in several workshops and continuously improved. The aim was to take the leap from mentoring to e-mentoring and trigger the users to digest the content by providing content in a text format adapted for reading online and additionally adding avatar for only listening to the content. The ip4women project is now offering several results contained in the platform and Erasmus+ Projects' Results platform as appropriate:- IPR & patenting practical multi-level e-learning ""content need"" analysis, via surveys through the aid of partner women NGOs in all project countries,- Multi-level IPR & patenting e-learning and e-guiding platform for e-Mentors as well as future patent applicants,- Online feedback system within the portal, model description report,- Testing report of the whole system, including mentor-mentee relations, individual information seekers responses, e-guiding performance by using above mentioned intelligent and interactive feedback toolkit. Whole system has been optimized by the use of these tools and aimed continuously to be improved by feedback of volunteer e-mentors for better sustainability of the complete ip4women system.The partnership was combined in order to been established to be able to realise all this ip4women environment as:- Uppdragshuset [SE] - IPR and patent specialist SME and R/D performer, expert in Mentoring,- MINERVA [SE], ZARIF[SK], TAKIDD [TR], FPK [PL] - Women NGOs having direct access to target group from different scientific backgrounds, various expertises,- POINT [TR] - R/D performing SME expert in Mentoring, development of e-Learning infrastructures,- ITeE-PIB [PL] - R/D in VET having also various patent applicant practices,- MOJMIR [SK] - VET and entrepreneurship training."

"e-Mentor is a ""challenge"" project that brings together 9 partners with various backgrounds to achieve their goals. 4 different countries host four different fields of activity, however, these differences were utilized to improve the institutional dimension and sectoral results of e-Mentor project. Based on the fact that women's creativity and entrepreneurship potential is a source of economic growth and employment and needs to be further developed, this project targets young women who are about to graduate and are dedicated to becoming entrepreneurs or young women to take over family business. The project aims to create an appropriate entrepreneurship guidance model for these young women, taking into account two important dimensions:- One is an obvious need to guide such young entrepreneurs,- Second, the young woman needs a mentor if she is going to lose her planned opportunity due to health problems in the family business or the unexpected death of the older generation who is expected to pass all the available history.So, our project is aiming to develop a complete and borderless professional infrastructure for potential young entrepreneur female for them freely walk in this line and receive a best possible level support in their entrepreneurship efforts.For this aims, the project has carried out the following outputs activities:•Firstly a questionnaire was conducted hosted by a university from each participating country among female students In addition, a separate questionnaire was conducted for mentors to assess the current status of potential mentors. Surveys aimed to understand the mentee and mentors' behaviors and attitudes on three main topics such as mentoring, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. In the final stage, the most important needs of the mentee and the current potential of the mentor determined. These points then be emphasized more strongly in the training modules (IO1-02)•Following, a comprehensive mentor curriculum was developed by considering surveys. In addition, mentee trainings have been developed as a guide for the mentee to understand the mentoring relationship.The training program is divided into 5 sections and there are a total of 13 modules.At the end of each module, there are short test questions to evaluate mentors and mentees' understanding (IO1-02).•Created e - Mentor Platform (IO3) mobile friendly and based on ""extendable"" design criteria, so that future expansions will be possible when the project idea grows to neighbour fields other than financial literacy in mentoring of young entrepreneur women candidates, even to wider scope.The following items are summarized in the e-Mentor portal:(http://www.ent-mentor.eu/). User's Manuel (to give a brief and easy information for users as well as practical navigation tips and methods about platform and e-course modules)About e-MentorWhy e-Mentor born?Aims & Objectives of e-Mentore-Mentor e-Training Programe-Training Course Program (The content of the syllabus is accompanied by an ""Avatar"" Also, modules can be seen both vertically and horizontally)Q&A (Avatar' answers questions -FAQ)Cognitive Pairing (Being O4 and to be available online within the portal)Give Us a Feedback! (Being O5 and to be available online within the portal)Chat RoomForumSearch site• The project used the ""cognitive matching"" tool between mentors and mentees. This goal was achieved through surveys using Big-Five personalities (OCEAN), whose characters matched the profiles of mentors and mentees For this purpose, online electronic questionnaire prepared for potential mentors and mentees. The answers to these questions were evaluated (IO4).- Feedback fairly straight forward but still very essential tool for the both implementation and future use of the project idea and resulting products. Moreover, this tool is vital for improvement of worked out system and for being able to find out tiny drawbacks on which any other carefully reading eyes may even overlook at. In this respect, at the testing phase feedback is utmost importance and be collected online and offline for performing improvements to the project outputs and to overall system created. The testing phase was provided feedback tools; these are as follows: (IO5)•The results of evaluating the participants in multiplier activities•Users / participants evaluated online surveys that allows the system to measure participants' satisfaction levels, including the anonymous rating system.•Evaluation results reflecting the satisfaction of project partnersAlso the project has carried out the following activities:Mangement & Quality ReportDissemination Report7 multiplier events and reached about 300 peopleEach partner presented the dissemination activity reports.One success story for each country8 international project meetings were held, as well as teleconferences via Skype."