Establish Women's Technology Education Center Project

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

This project will be initiated for the benefit of Syrian refugee women and girls and disadvantaged local woman and girls living in the southeastern border city, Şanlıurfa, in order to support them to have jobs in an area compatible with the necessities of the time we live in: technological development for Industry 4.0. This project aims to improve refugee and local women’s technological literacy, to acquire coding and robotics skills, to have knowledge of new age technologies and new job opportunities linked to these technologies, to create network for individual development and partnership opportunities, to study in a center where they can learn from and teach each other. The projects is made up of two components: Training of trainers: This component will aim to train women and men who are selected upon their application to become a trainer (preferably disadvantaged applicants). For the first year, 16 women and 16 men Syrian and Turkish applicants will be trained by our expert trainers on coding, robotics, Aurdiuno, IT and networking, Java development, mobile development, Phyton data science and web development, cyber security, graphic design. After successfully completing the training, they will get certificates, and selected 4 trainers will take charge in the project as paid staff, others will have chance to voluntarily participate. Training of refugee and local women and girls: Under a 10-months long digital education program, groups made up of 16 women and girls from refugee and local disadvantaged community will be trained by our trainers on the subjects listed below. In total 750 women and girls will be trained and certificated.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Middle East & North Africa

Syrian Arab Republic

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Skills

  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Digital literacy
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Learning while working

  • Vocational training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being