Establish Women's Technology Education Center Project

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.