Cutting-Edge Digital Skills for professional care givers of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Problems Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cutting-Edge Digital Skills for professional care givers of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Problems

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 : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The area of disability includes physical, mental, developmental and age-related disorders. People facing these problems, encounter several major obstacles that prevent them from seamlessly integrating in society. Nowadays more and more of these people have their capabilities, rather than their disabilities, recognized and accepted by the general public. The rapid technological advance of past decades, has also triggered a dramatic progress in technology usage for assistive and training purposes. Since true inclusiveness, and deinstitutionalization process pass through all the professionals involved in the care of persons with disabilities, from the lowest levels to the highest ones, there is an increasing need to integrate existing skills, with new approaches and competences, able to properly meet these new challenges. New and up to date training curricula need to be developed, to respond to the needs of social care employees and properly take advantage of new opportunities offered by technologies. DDSKILLS project, aims to develop an Alliance for providing new competences and skills for Health and Social care sector professionals supporting persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Problems. Within the proposed training qualification of DDSKILLS project, skills shortages will be verified and addressed on EU scale, relevant knowledge and learning outcomes will be discussed and finally mapped to ECVET points and EQF levels and project will be promoted at European Level. Professional caregivers (Occupational therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Special education teachers, Nurses, Gerontologists, Rehabilitation experts) will be able to follow these courses to learn how the use of new technological devices(sensors, assistive devices, robots, virtual and augmented reality headsets, brain Computer Interfaces).

Project Website

http://ddskills.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 970797 Eur

Project Coordinator

SYLLOGOS GONEON, KIDEMONON KAI FILON ATOMON ME ANAPIRIA ‘TO ERGASTIRI’ & Country: EL

Project Partners

• FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL EMPLOYERS
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
• FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA
• KYPRIAKI ETAIREIA PISTOPOIISIS LIMITED
• M.M.C MANAGEMENT CENTER LIMITED
• TANDEM SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE INTEGRATA
• THEOFANIS ALEXANDRIDIS KAI SIA EE