 Good afternoon everyone. My name is Pia Grunewald. I am a project officer from Old Digital and I'm really happy to be here at FOSTA. It's my second year here and my first year doing a presentation and the reason why I'm doing this is to talk about our project on open adult education. In terms of open adult education, I should be clear that I'll give an introduction about our network and what we do, but in terms of adult education we focus on up-skilling and re-skilling adults with little or no skills to be ready for the digital transformation. Just about what we do, so at Old Digital we support about 43% now of Europeans with insufficient digital skills and we are an organization that started from the grassroots up, so we were founded a little bit over than 10 years ago by organizations based in cities like here in Brussels. We have Florian here with us today who represents one of our member organizations, but we have member organizations all across Europe that work with really bridging the digital skills gap with excluded disenfranchised communities and they decided to form the organization after realizing that there's much challenges to be had at the European level on bridging the digital skills gap, so they formed us in terms of originally we're called Telecenter Europe and now we change the name to Old Digital. We have different focus areas in terms of basic digital skills, employability and entrepreneurship, coding, digital media literacy and STEAM skills for society and a lot of the projects we do are Erasmus projects, some Horizon projects in doing these areas. Now going to open adult education, I'll actually go to this slide here, so in 2017 in our member surveys we came up, we realized there were few challenges in that our members needed to find new approaches to teaching basic digital skills to different cohorts across the population, so it needed to be more modular and adaptable to address immediate needs and we also wanted to take into account more mobile and open source free and open source technologies and solutions. I'm sure as you probably are aware a lot of the digital inclusion sector got a lot of support from proprietary organizations and that support has been cut a lot, but also proprietary organizations prepare Propose a big challenge for disenfranchised communities because you're locking people into a software rate from the get-go and many of our organizations are realizing that and making full transitions to free and open source technologies and we needed to create better training modules to address that need and we also needed to focus on new digital skills and use digital different standardized frameworks like digi comp edu At the European level, I mean we're here in Brussels. We're not strictly European organization, but there are various international frameworks being used in terms of identifying core competencies to teach digital skills and also to identify what skills are missing and lacking so the open AE project open adult education project is addressed to teaching high quality skills and competencies to educators And so we're talking about people working in digital competency centers People working in libraries so they can have a series of modules to train themselves in and also bring this out to their End end users so adults interested in rescaling and upskilling I'll go back down here So we're developing a curriculum We have a curriculum already developed and we have a toolkit on open Technologies that are mapped according to digi comp edu. So we use digi comp as a area which we identify what skills educators need and we use And with our consortium that are a few organizations Very adept in free and open source technologies. We identified resources and different modules and softwares that we can use to Train e-facilitators or digital educators We're about to start piloting a With 10 at least 10 e-facilitators in four different european countries Using this curriculum and this open modular Toolkit And then we'll produce guidelines on transferability So they saw the project outputs again And so we have the toolkit and we're also going to use Slide wiki if anyone is familiar with that in terms of creating courses for Educators and such Before we started and this is also one reason why I brought florian here is that One of the reasons why I really wanted to come to foster them is we wanted to raise awareness to the free and open source community To developers about what is the need to bridge the gap In terms of how free and open source technologies can better really reach The most vulnerable in society and the people who are most at risk of being locked into a proprietary software And we conducted desk research in all four countries where this Project will be piloted in so in here in belgium in switzerland in spain and in italy With e-facilitators understanding the challenges and the results of this cultural and professional Contrast between the two main effects on one side educators and the general public have superficial knowledge and awareness on open culture topics and resources And on the other side, there's also lacking structural support and promotion that has pushed the creation of many networks and organizations To independently cope with this deficiency And we really want to bridge that gap and promote that dialogue. And that's also why we're here today and the main Tangible effects that we can observe in the presence of this market as a huge number of free And open source technologies. Maybe florian would like to speak about his experience and tell a little bit more about the organization here Hello, everybody. My name is florian My english is not perfect, but my ideas are simple. So I suppose it will be enough Uh, I'm working with max. It's a non-profit organization working in two Poor part of brussels mollambic and under leg And we are working in digital inclusion with adults and with young children children and And uh, why we are participating at this project Uh, it's because we realize that the animators that are working with us Uh, most of them they don't have a low Low level of education. They have a basic Basic education, but not always a good diplomas and They have a lot of knowledge But uh, we realize that they can be very good animators because they know Better the way of thinking of simple people Of this part of the city because they are simple people like me. I'm a simple person also And but it makes a normal relation with the The people who are learning, uh, and it's easy. So we have people also wearing, uh, I don't know A Islamic The muslim person woman also and this kind of things. We try to work with peers But we realize that this E facilitators doesn't have a big knowledge about open source Way of thinking and the tools it's not something Normal for them. And so we try to take this opportunity to To professionalize better the the work they are doing with this kind of tools And uh, why why we we are choosing this direction. It's mainly we for three reasons. I want to share with you The first one is it's about Collective intelligence That the people who are in the classroom Have a knowledge They have competences They have needs and it's What we try to do is to To understand the needs they have but also to start from the the power they have to to be open to to the knowledge they have but also To the way of thinking That's the the first thing and I think that open source tools can help especially to develop this kind of things And the second thing for E facilitators Is that they not always Consent about the tools they are using and the consequence About using these tools For instance, we are still using a microsoft You know we have two digital open space a running with 15 computers and a connection And we are in a network with all these open digital open spaces of brussels are Together in a network and no we are thinking about a Curriculum this one To propose this curriculum to all multimedia animators working in this field in brussels And so the the second idea I wanted to say about the tools is that We will we would like to prop to make possible a choice that the person knows Why is using these tools and when if what are the consequence about the tools because of course the tools will Have an impact about the results But also an impact on the end on the one who's using the tools And the way of working of these tools will not be the same way of working Of a private tools of a private license and to Also, we think it's an interesting way of Of promoting The fact of working together But with the with the use of the tools i'm not sure to be very clear, but it's more To think and it's the third ideas. I wanted to share with you. It's to think about About the culture of participation And in the in a culture of participation Well, actually by you found a lot of things in the floss culture as common work to share the resources Uh Not one person decide for the others Well, you have a lot of things who can be maybe useful For us. Well, that's it and I I give back the the I had a question to the to everybody or to pia I'm very interested in hearing some questions from the audience But one of the things we want to promote here is also The concept of free culture and collaboration and collaborative knowledge. So while max they Sometimes speak very lowly of themselves and say we still use microsoft We still use these tools But the idea is also teaching people about licenses teaching people about copy left how they can Create their outputs to be open so it can be reused by other people and they're excellent at that The so we want to share that open culture and make people realize that It's not necessarily strictly the end tools, but how you use them in your daily life And if anyone has questions or comments or challenges Please raise your hand. We have a lovely assistant here who's going to send over your mic a microphone to you Yes Right. I just want to ask you said you have your curriculum in slide wiki. Is that correct? Okay So if I understood correctly what the curriculum you're currently developing is something like a train the trainers So you're is that correct? Yes. Okay. And what kind of language do you have so far? Oh So this will be in english, french, italian And catalan a little bit also in spanish and dutch Uh, and this is also one reason why we're starting to pilot in april because it takes a long time to translate it in that many languages And with the slide wiki tools once We we have it closed, but once it's open it'll be open for everyone to use the slides in their education It's not open yet, but once piloting starts it'll be open as they release so and if you look at the Open a website that will be accessible to everyone Another question or comment challenges. Okay, great. Thank you very much