A Digital VET Toolkit for Promoting the 4th Industrial Revolution in the European Health Sector Erasmus Project

Project Title

A Digital VET Toolkit for Promoting the 4th Industrial Revolution in the European Health Sector

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Background:
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VET trainers need to be urgently assisted to catch up with the range of digital technology advancements taking place in the healthcare sector as a result of Industry 4.0 technologies. There is a need to provide European healthcare VET trainers and mentors with a one-stop toolkit that provides them with an open repository of relevant training resources including training material, e-learning content and relevant case-studies of industry 4.0 technologies as applied in health care scenarios.

Health care professionals are working adults that need to be supported with extending their competences to cater for the range of digital technologies infiltrating the health sector such as 3D printing, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. For this reason, educators as well as other personnel involved in training such health care professionals urgently need a VET toolkit to aid them in effectively in reaching this goal.

Objectives:
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The main aim of this Project called digi4HEALTH (A Digital VET Toolkit for Promoting the 4th Industrial Revolution in the European Health Sector) is to develop a novel digital toolkit by which European VET Trainers and health sector mentors can reach out and assist healthcare professionals and stakeholders to catch up with technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution. To achieve this aim, the following objectives have been set:

OB1: To develop a Curriculum targeted at healtcare personnel to learn about Heath 4.0 and its underlying technologies;
OB2: To develop twelve case-studies portraying how different technologies can be used in a Health 4.0 environment
OB3: To develop an e-Learning platform explicitly for Heath4.0 and its underlying technologies
0B4: To develop an innovative digital VET trainers toolkit integrating a set of training resources including case-studies, fact sheets, presentations and e-learning content
OB5: To evaluate the digital VET toolkit with a set of health care professionals in one of the partner countries
OB6: To disseminate & exploit the digi4Health project results

Number and Profile of Participants:
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To address these goals, the digi4HEALT project brings together six European entities ranging from VET Training Institutions, public HEI, private technology service providers, an international network of health workforce educators, a health and social innovation enterprise as well as a technology park with access to expertise in digital and medical technologies. These partners were purposely chosen to ensure a good balance between experts in VET pedagogy, Continous Professional Development and curriculum development, Industry 4.0 digital technologies, as well as stakeholders from the heatlhcare target sector.

Results & Methodology:
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On completion, the digi4HEALTH project will deliver the following results (R):

R1: A novel VET Curriculum explicitly addressing the training needs of helping healthcare personnel to catch up with Health4.0 digital technologies
R2: A set of case-studies which VET trainers and heathcare mentors can use to demonstrate how Health4.0 digital technologies can be exploited in a heathcare service environment
R3: Novel VET training material, fact sheets and resources based on the curriculum (R1) above that will be openly available for customisation by VET trainers/mentors beyond the project partners
R4: An original digi4HEALTH e-Learning platform integrating the case-studies (R2), training material and resources (R3)
R5: An innovative digital VET Toolkit that openly provides access from a single point of entry,me to the resources developed including the Curriculum, the case-studies, the courseware as well as the e-Learning course. Accompanying the Toolkit will be a framework guiding the VET trainers and healthcare mentors on how to use the Toolkit resources.

The three phases (PH) involved in the digi4HEALTH implementation methodology are :
– PH1: Planning Phase
– PH2: Solution Development Phase
– PH3: Solution Testing & Exploitation Phase

Potential Impact and Long-Term Benefits
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As the main output, The Toolkit will be an open type VET educational resources, it is expected to have a major impact on European VET trainers and healthcare mentors beyond the digi4HEALTH consortium too, as this Toolkit will give them open access to a range of digital resources they can use and even customize for their own training needs. As partner INHWE has a range of members both from Europe and beyond, the project outputs will be exposed to a spectrum of VET Trainers, mentors and learners in the healthcare sector. As a consequence of this project, a large number of European VET trainers and healthcare sector stakeholders will be able to update their skills on Health4.0 technologies.

Project Website

http://www.digi4h.eumecb.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 196382,08 Eur

Project Coordinator

MACDAC ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY BUREAU LTD – MECB & Country: MT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• KAINOTOMIA & SIA EE
• SENIOR EUROPA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA
• VIESOJI ISTAIGA KAUNO MOKSLO IR TECHNOLOGIJU PARKAS
• International Network for Health Workforce Education
• INHWE LTD