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GOW 2017 Report
ESTONIA
http://www.getonlineweek.eu/estonia/
BE SAFE ONLINE AND USE ALL THE SKILLS CORRECTLY
Get Online Week 2017 in Estonia was organised by the
Estonian Smart Work Association, NPO Robotex, Look@
World Foundation and Tallinn’s Central Library. It engaged
78 people in events and reached over 50,000 through
media and promotional activities.
For 1,300 students and young people under 21, SWA
wanted to show that ICT can help finding a future job.
In order to promote different fields of ICT, hands-on
activities were offered to youngsters (based on
programming, multimedia, web-design). SWA also
promoted STEM education and tech as a career.
In cooperation with the most popular job portals,
competence offices, career counsellors etc., SWA
introduced 1,200 young people to online opportunities,
tools, career experts, and HR specialists. Among other
tools SWA promoted the employability-networking tool
YouRock.jobs as well as e-skills assessment tool
Skillage.eu.
Several Estonian libraries conducted events and trainings
which where connected to the main GOW topics and
introduced several e-tools and devices.
The highlight event was a vlog contest “Smart Youtuber
2017” with the topic of Robots. Educational robotics is a
growing field in Estonia. It is developed to attract young
students to choose IT subject as their field of study and
give a practical aim to science taught in schools. The aim
of the competition was to turn the attention of young
vloggers to developments in technology and contemplate
if those developments have beneficial or detrimental
effects on humanity.
GOW17 in Estonia: Awareness raising through the vlog
contest
GERMANY
http://www.getonlineweek.eu/germany/
GET CONNECTED – SURF REFLECTED!
GOW17 was coordinated by Stiftung Digitale Chancen
(SDC) for the sixth time Germany.
69 digital competence centers all over Germany
participated by conducting events and workshops: the
“Coffee-Cake-Tablet” workshops for senior citizens in
and around Saarbrücken; the project “Play Online” of
the German Games Museum in Chemnitz; the “Security
Online” Workshop for Women in Berlin; and many others.
Every year during GOW, SDC focuses on activities
that address digital inclusion and promotion of good
practices. This year it was a stand at the fair for the “Day
of Helping Children and Young People” in Düsseldorf
in order to promote the valuable use of digital media
for children and young people while growing up. More
than 300 educators, politicians and stakeholders were
reached and involved in the discussion about “growing up
with media”.