Health sector skill alliance for creating innovative and efficient VET programmes and improving the digital Skills of medical physics and health professionals. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Health sector skill alliance for creating innovative and efficient VET programmes and improving the digital Skills of medical physics and health professionals.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The increasing demand for healthcare services, driven by demographic shifts throughout Europe will increase the number of jobs and the required skills of professionals in the health sector. Recently the need for digital skills for health care professionals is acknowledged at EU level. Digi4He will provide a platform for digital skills training in the health care sector. EU Educational Institutes, VETs, Health Care Associations and relevant EU Enterprises will exchange skills, experience and accessibility to be embodied in a single high quality training framework improving Digital Skill training all over European Countries. At first the content will be defined by determining the digital skills every health professional must possess to use eHealth solutions to their full potential after the verification of the specific educational needs of Doctors, Operators and professionals of digital technology of medical imaging equipment. Then partners will develop user-adapted training modules on the specific context concerning digital image processing and administration, including recent changes on pedagogical landscape of Health care distance learning with the use of innovative Vocational Open Online Courses (VOOCs) for Digital Skills on health domain topics like medical imaging. After the evaluation of the approach’s functionality through the pilot study over 4 EU countries and adjustment of the educational framework that finally will be accredited using the appropriate EU directives and Agencies of training accreditation, (with SLP Certificates, nano-degrees, badges), improving quality of national and European Education on digital technologies in health sector. Finally Digi4He will provide the developed open-access training framework additionally with its technical support to the community of Health care professionals of EU. The partnership will work towards the educational framework to be utilized and integrated in national and EU level VET training systems on health.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 981550 Eur

Project Coordinator

PANEPISTIMIO PATRON & Country: EL

Project Partners

• FILANTHROPIKO IDRYMA VIOIATRIKON EREVNON
• HOCHSCHULE 21 GEMEINNUTZIGE GMBH
• UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
• UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI
• FUNDATIA PRO LASER
• INHWE LTD
• N. NOULAS ANONYMI ETAIREIA