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GO_PRO! - Regional Programming Centers

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 581720-EPP-1-2016-2-PL-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 123,784 EUR

GO_PRO! - Regional Programming Centers

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Idea of GO_PRO! Network was positively recognized by United Nation. In the annual World Summit of the Information Society (Zurich 2015) it was nominated to prestige prize, as one of 30 best ICT capacity building initiates. It was also described in WSIS Stocktaking Report 2015 as one of good practises. In Poland the project was nominated to a prize: New Technologies Locally 2015, which is annually granted by Polish – American Cooperation Foundation. It was described as one often best initiatives of 2014. Network was supported also by Reading and Writing Foundation – Public Libraries 2020 initiative, as one of 6 best initiatives involving libraries. Our current project Regional Programming Centers was nomited to WSIS prize (WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY PRIZES 2020) in the capacity building category as one of 20 best ITC initiatives.Within Erasmus+, together with our partners, we wanted to promote this idea furthermore, allowing other Youth to develop their programming skills and fully participate in digital world. Partners all together agreed, that learning to code is important because of:1. The needs of the labour market – programming specialists are one of the most needed professional groups, basic programming skills will be useful for the majority of positions based on the computer work 2. Media education - computer illiterate group are vulnerable to exclusion;3. Innovative economy - creating software and new tools and services are the pillars of the innovation economy.Within the project GO_PRO! we built the capacity of partner organizations and they are able now develop ICT skills and support digital and social inclusion of Youth in local communities. We also wanted to create a special space (non formal education centers) for developing ICT and programmingskills. The basic idea for it - is to use the existing infrastructure, only reconfigure it. To create previous GO_PRO! Centers we cooperated with partner organizations – schools, libraries, NGOs. Well-equipped educational centers can create great conditions for modern programmingeducation, which especially important in developing countries and/or rural areas.Partners got the knowledge, skills and tools to organize interesting IT lessons, what also allowed(during so called Coder Clubs) youth to develop programming skills during their free time, using the equipment under the guidance of a volunteer. Coder Clubs are based on challenges. Each week there was a new problem, new challenge, which Club had to solve together! Youth needed to learn new things about algorithm, build a robot using Lego Mindstorms, and then program it properly. Sometimes the challenges had forced Youth division into smaller groups. They competed with each other to create best solution, this way they were stimulated to gave all their energy and enthusiasm to solve particular problem the best possible way.The project included 2 mobilities for Youth Workers, each of them helped undeniably them to be better teachers/ educators/ animators of ICT competences in their own communities. Each Partner organization received grant for proper equipment, in order to lead innovative and interesting ICTworkshops in their areas. During the Code Week (X of 2017 and 2018) we to organized collaborative awareness rising actions in order to promote network and for self-development purposes. We had in mind, that encouraged/empowered youngsters or children develop so quickly, that volunteers need to be trained constantly to provide quality ICT workshops.The project is extremely innovative but based on an easily replicable model - that we tried to share in detail with partner organizations. Another innovative element is that project activities were specifically designed to develop a new set of entrepreneurial and digital competences which are in today’s digital society crucial for both: employability and active participation of young people in the society.

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