ICT Innovative Caregivers TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and effective homecare system

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1 ICT Innovative Caregivers TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and effective homecare system CH1-LEO

2 Project Information Title: Project Number: ICT Innovative Caregivers TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and effective homecare system CH1-LEO Year: 2013 Project Type: Status: Marketing Text: Summary: Transfer of Innovation completed CH-Switzerland ICT INNOVATIVE CAREGIVERS TRAINING The achieved aim of the project was to create an innovative model for caregivers. The ICT training Model Innovative caregivers training is a complete set of tools and methods aiming at sustaining organizations and training providers in their efforts to set up competence building processes. At the same time it offered and still offers to end users (health care professionals active in the home care field), a flexible workplace learning approach which integrates (besides technical skills in the ICT domain) also the know-how to use relational and communication skills in an adequate manner. Detailed procedures for competence building activities were defined and formalized, to promote caregiver qualification paths based on existing professional regulations in all participating countries. In Europe seniors and particularly elderly people (> 60/80 years old), are a growing component of the population. Health and psychological fragilities are strongly linked to age progression and do often appear in a context of comorbidity. The need of personal support and health care for older persons is therefore growing constantly, especially in the home care sector (Nolte and McKee, 2008; Bayliss et al. 2008). There exists thus a strong need to offer tailored caregiver training programmes for the home care sector. It is well known, that the quality of life of seniors and elderly people could be improved significantly by promoting homecare integrated assistance including telehealth options, allowing health care professionals to monitor and consult patients remotely (CAST,2012; Garson et al. 2012; EU- EHAP, 2012). As a consequence hospitals and primary care services could be discharged. In this context the promotion of innovative and collaborative care models, which do integrate affordable technologies to coordinate care, will be crucial. It will become most important to assess and adapt attitudes as well as skills of caregivers assisting elderly people at home on a continuous basis. They are in a key position to act as mentors of elderly people and may help them (when knowing to use adequate relational and communication skills) to overcome potential barriers to the use of new technologies. The ICT training Model Innovative caregivers training for further education used interrelated procedures for competence building through transfer, validation and accumulation of learning outcomes, which may be achieved thanks to experiential learning (informal and non-formal contexts). Several complementary units concentrating on workplace learning and assessment will promote caregiver qualification paths based on existing local professional regulations in all participating countries. By promoting the use of new technologies and the interaction with local care networks, both caregivers and elderly people living at home may be facilitated considerably in their usual daily activities. Description: Themes: The ICT training Model Innovative caregivers training is a complete set of tools and methods aiming at sustaining organisations and training providers in their efforts to set up competence building processes. At the same time it offered to end users (health care professionals active in the home care field) a flexible workplace learning approach, which integrates (besides technical skills in the ICT domain) also the know-how to use relational and communication skills in an adequate manner. Detailed procedures for competence building activities will be defined and formalized, to promote caregiver qualification paths based on existing professional regulations in all participating countries. ** Intercultural learning ** Recognition, transparency, certification * Labor market 2

3 Project Information Sectors: Product Types: Product information: Projecthomepage: * ICT * Lifelong learning * Continuous training *** Education ** Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods- and Services-Producing Activities of Households for Own Use * Human Health and Social Work Activities website teaching material program or curricula others material for open learning The following activities were successfully achieved: launch of a platform and project website based on the approach and the structure used for the SUFUCA (2010) project website; organization of four thematic Info-days to present the project results, also in a dimension of exploitation, to a target audience (VET providers, social enterprises, social partners of home care assistance/caregiving and public institutions competent in VET at national, regional and/or local level as well as representatives of the local media): each hosting partners will organise one event in his country, inviting at least 20 participants; publishing a project brochure in the language of every participating country (approximately 500 copies per country and language). The brochure will include information on project deliverables for a broad public (e.g. for people attending the national/regional/local thematic info-days) dissemination of results by means of article publications in professional and scientific journals; definition of a detailed Exploitation plan; dissemination of results by means of article publications in professional and scientific journals and of a scientific publication. 3

4 Project Contractor Country/Region: Organization Type: Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana - Dipartimento Sanità Manno - Lugano Ticino CH-Switzerland university/fachhochschule/academy Contact Person Address: Telephone: Fax: Filippo Bignami Via Violino Manno - Lugano CH-Switzerland +41 (0) filippo.bignami@supsi.ch 4

5 Coordinator Country/Region: Organization Type: Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana - Dipartimento Sanità Manno - Lugano Ticino CH-Switzerland university/fachhochschule/academy Contact Person Address: Telephone: Fax: Filippo Bignami Via Violino Manno - Lugano CH-Switzerland +41 (0) filippo.bignami@supsi.ch 5

6 Partner Partner 1 Country/Region: Organization Type: Federation of Education in Jokilaaksot Nivala Pohjois-Suomi FI-Finland university/fachhochschule/academy Partner 2 Country/Region: Organization Type: Region Gdaski NSZZ "Solidarno" Gdask Pomorskie PL-Poland trade union organisation Partner 3 Country/Region: Organization Type: ForModena - Formazione per la Pubblica Amministrazione e per l'impresa srl Modena Emilia-Romagna IT-Italy continuing training institution Partner 4 Country/Region: Organization Type: Artevelde University College Ghent Gent Oost-Vlaanderen BE-Belgium university/fachhochschule/academy 6

7 Partner Partner 5 Country/Region: Organization Type: Stiftung ECAP - Research and development office Zurich Zürich CH-Switzerland continuing training institution 7

8 Project Files DEASS_comunicatoStampa_ pdf ICT project press release Italian ICT Innovative Caregivers training.pdf ICT Platform SharePoint demo of innovative approach ICT project_ing_def.pdf Final conference programme ICT project_ita_def.pdf Final conference programme IT TransferPlan PerCartellinaConferenza.pdf Training transfer plan short verson for dissemination WP6 IntroProject FB ppt Final conference Lugano September 2015, project presentation Filippo Bignami 8

9 Products Interim report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model Final scientific publication ICT training model Final report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model 9

10 Product 'Interim report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model' Title: Interim report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model Product Type: others Marketing Text: From a methodological point of view, the Plan for quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model does focus on the evaluation of two particular connected aspects: - Process management (system evaluation), which concentrates on organizational project issues, in order to facilitate the accomplishment of planned project aims. It consists of: o Evaluation of the processes in each WP o Evaluation of the process of the project group - Outcomes in terms of results obtained according to the planned activities (product evaluation). It consists of: o Evaluation of the content validity of the Model o Evaluation of the effect of the Model Description: Target group: Result: Area of application: Product Languages: product files Interim report on quality assurance result number 4_last.pdf &prd=1 10

11 Product 'Final scientific publication' ICT Innovative Caregivers TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and Title: Final scientific publication Product Type: teaching material Marketing Text: Title of the book: New educational itineraries and perspectives for care professionals. The Innovative Caregivers Training model as example of strenghtening competences, networking and participation. Description: Editors: Filippo Bignami, Vincenzo D'Angelo and Furio Bednarz. Publisher: Scholars press Target group: Academics, professionals, Teachers, trainers, policy makers in the social and health care delivery services. Result: Area of application: Product Languages: English &prd=2 11

12 Product 'ICT training model' ICT Innovative Caregivers TrainingRethinking competences for a sustainable and Title: ICT training model Product Type: modules Marketing Text: The objectives of the project ICT-training are to enable target persons (caregivers who have no specific training in the health care field and their connected professionals, social workers, patients relatives, etc) to meet the challenges that their work situation asks them in professional, social and personal terms. In particular this project aims at promoting (through the use of ICT equipment and hence the TOI-content of this project) the networking and problem solving skills of the cargivers with other professionals in the area. As a consequence their strategic position with respect to their patients/clients will be enhanced due to increased networking with the local health care system. At the same time also possible inconveniences regarding bad working conditions or social isolation will be reduced. Description: The training model has been tested on caregivers and professionals working with them in Switzerland, Italy and Poland with excellent results. Target group: Caregivers and all the social and health professionals working and interacting with them Result: Area of application: Product Languages: English product files ICT training model TransferPlan PerCartellinaConferenza.pdf &prd=3 12

13 Product 'Final report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model' Title: Final report on quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model Product Type: evaluation methods Marketing Text: Evaluation and quality assurance process and project evaluation carefully cared during the Whole project lifetime Description: From a methodological point of view, the Plan for quality assurance, evaluation and validation of the ICT training Model does focus on the evaluation of two particular connected aspects: - Process management (system evaluation), which concentrates on organizational project issues, in order to facilitate the accomplishment of planned project aims. It consists of: o Evaluation of the processes in each WP o Evaluation of the process of the project group - Outcomes in terms of results obtained according to the planned activities (product evaluation). It consists of: o Evaluation of the content validity of the Model o Evaluation of the effect of the Model Target group: Project coordinators and evaluators Result: Report Area of application: Product Languages: product files Final quality report result number 5.pdf &prd=4 13

14 Events Final public conference, Lugano, 4 September 2015 Date Description Target audience Public Contact Information Time and place Project and conference rationale The ICT-Innovative caregivers training- Project, a Transfer of Innovation initiative co-financed by Leonardo Da Vinci LLP Program, focuses on enabling caregivers move in a technologysupported care setting. The main outcome of the project, among the others, is the setting up of an innovative training model able to offer a complete set of tools/method, providing all the actors involved in caregiving with a flexible workplace learning space. The project leans on transformative and experiential dimensions of learning, focusing on a systemic approach: caregiving involving multiple actors, creating a competent network with information and communication technologies (ICT) as facilitator of interaction and networking. The final Conference aims at disseminating and valorizing the results of ICT Project. Target groups of the project (home assistance services, elderly professionals, health service coordinators, caregivers, trainers, teachers, academicals, institutions and VET operators in general) are expected to benefit from a final detailed and qualified results information and dissemination of the project s outcomes. The involvement of local and European key Actors was ensured, in order to discuss methodological and practical achievements of the Project. Training institutions, health providers, professionals coordinators, scholars Event is open to the public filippo.bignami@supsi.ch coordinator of the project Lugano, Switzerland, 4 September