"How to cope in everyday life, using digital technologies wisely? Educational toolkit for teenagers in foster homes and their caregivers”- Kick-off meeting
On February 23, 2022, CASE joined the online Kick-Off Meeting as a part of “FOSTER – How to cope in everyday life, using digital technologies wisely? Educational toolkit for teenagers in foster homes and their caregivers”.
The project brings together three Partners from 2 countries (Iceland: Kara Connect, Poland: CTS and CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research). The Kick-Off Meeting, hosted by CTS Customized Training Solutions sp. z o.o. (CTS), was originally planned in Warsaw, but has been rescheduled online due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
The project FOSTER concerns two priority areas:
- child welfare education
- developing inclusive education
The FOSTER project aims to develop an innovative educational offer for teenagers and caregivers of foster homes and to implement the created educational tools in these institutions, to increase the life skills of their teenagers, necessary to function in today's fast-changing digital world.
This objective is directly linked to the objective of the Education programme as it:
- reduces the economic and social disparities among young people now and in their lifetime;
- increases the knowledge potential of Poland as the first such educational offer addressed to young people in the social care system;
- strengthens the institutional partnership on education between Poland and Iceland through the transfer of knowledge and good practices from the Icelandic partner specializing in digital inclusive education and education on the social care system.
The project activities include all policymakers that increase the quality and effectiveness of the project results. The project contributes to the objectives agreed upon between the Partners, because:
- the proposed content of the educational offer is innovative. To our knowledge, there are no educational materials in Poland that improve life skills necessary to function in the digital world;
- knowledge transfer from Iceland allows for the creation of a set of educational materials for being used among socially excluded young people;
- the offer integrates the use of new technologies in education and creates new teaching methods (gamification, interactivity) in environments where these methods do not exist, thus developing inclusive education.
The group of recipients of the project's results will be teenagers from foster homes aged 13-18 and their caregivers. Activities will be addressed to Polish foster homes, which are dominated by teenagers of exactly this age group.
Project “FOSTER – How to cope in everyday life, using digital technologies wisely? Educational toolkit for teenagers in foster homes and their caregivers” benefits from funding from values 74 429,40 EUR received from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway as part of the EEA Grants. The purpose of the project FOSTER is to develop an educational offer addressed to teenagers in foster homes, concerning the improvement of their life skills necessary to function in today’s rapidly changing digital world.
Project Coordinator: Magdalena Wiśniewska
Case Experts: Izabela Marcinkowska, Joanna Starczewska, Michalina Wacław
