The project
PROLIFIC wants to foster competencies about rights and digitalization of professionals, volunteers and educators who work with people with disabilities, older people and migrants, and know first-hand their conditions, characteristics and daily challenges.
Specifically, the project wants to give these professionals tools to better respond to issues and violation of citizens’ digital rights, especially of vulnerable people.
Thus, PROLIFIC wants to help these specific target groups to enhance strategies and awareness on their rights.
The project has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under grant number 2020-1-ES01-KA204-082419.
The methodology
The project involves three groups as people with disabilities, older people and migrants, and professionals who directly work with them across 3 countries (Italy, Spain and Portugal).
The methodology of PROLIFIC focuses on a co-design approach to develop the project with the following features:
- Focus group discussions with people with disabilities, older people, migrants;
- Depth-interviews with professionals (Delphi method);
- Training with professionals across the three Countries;
- Validate of impact evaluation tool;
- Spread of the software with the results.
The software
A software capable of generating personalized online courses tailored for people with disabilities, elderly people and migrants, and supporting professionals in providing specific training to the users they work with. The online course aims to debate issues related to digital rights such as:
- digital literacy
- digital language
- universal access to services
- online hate, recognition and defense of discrimination
- disinformation, misleading information, black propaganda
- deceptions
- collection and use of data
The resulting materials (the «courses») are online (html) and downloadable (.pdf & .epub).