Valorizzare le potenzialità dello Smart Working

"<< Background >>The restrictions imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have forcibly accelerated the spread of 'remote working' (so-called ""smart working""), accelerating a process that has been underway for several years thanks to the continuous development of technologies digital increasingly within everyone's reach. However, individuals have not always arrived prepared to face what often turned out to be a radical change with immediate effects also in the management of private life.The SmartWo project with its digital toolkit of knowledge and experience has represented a concrete attempt to share and enhance concepts and practices to allow individuals to better face the challenges associated with the (sometimes forced) diffusion of remote work. Through the creation of a multimedia web platform (https://www.smartwo.eu) the project partners first created and then tested the various tools already envisaged in the application phase.<< Objectives >>Through an initial phase of surveying the experiences lived by the workers and therefore the consequent co-design of the training tools, the partners of the SmartWo project have created a digital toolkit of knowledge and experience that would provide concrete support aimed at better enhancing the benefits of work remotely and therefore to a consequent reduction or better management of the disadvantages associated with it.The Toolkit therefore leveraged the enhancement of soft skills and digital skills themselves for a more effective resilience of individuals to the new context that they have often suffered passively, individuals in this case understood as all workers with different occupational profiles, from managers / executives to officials / executives up to operatives - employees and workers. All then within a European dimension that takes advantage of the possibility of sharing the experiences recorded in Italy, the Czech Republic and Latvia.<< Implementation >>Activity 1 of creating contents and multimedia tools (with an initial involvement of the target group for the creation of Module 1#) was followed by Activity 2 of experimentation and validation of the same directly involving a group of workers (with different profiles from managers/executives to officials/executives up to operatives - office workers and workers) who, following the restrictions imposed for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic, had to disrupt their daily working life.In parallel with the experimentation phase, periodic monitoring actions were carried out which made it possible to understand the level of achievement of the expected results as well as the achievement of the objectives that stimulated the very genesis of the project. The final evaluation of the entire project's effectiveness therefore concerned both the level of achievement of the numerical target set already in the application phase and the perception of quality and therefore of the effectiveness of the tools created and tested: both aspects highlighted results more than excellent.<< Results >>The project partners first created and then tested the various tools envisaged during the application phase, namely:- an open source platform in the four project languages (Czech, English, Italian and Latvian) also used as a communication and dissemination tool for the project;- 4 video tutorials in the 4 project languages to frame the fundamental elements of the 4 training modules centred on the contents already foreseen in the application phase;- a compendium [SmartWo_Enhance the potential of Smart Working_Booklet] for an initial study of the topics covered in the individual videos accompanied by an in-depth bibliography;- a self-assessment questionnaire at the end of each module containing simple questions to allow the participant a first assessment of the level of learning;- an overall feedback form functional to an evaluation of the Toolkit and therefore to its own validation.The experimentation phase directly involved 65 workers from at least 30 different companies to test and validate the Toolkit and 50 stakeholders activated in the various dissemination phases."