Hospital cleaners Innovative Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

Hospital cleaners Innovative Training

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Migrants’ issues

Project Summary

This project has built upon the work undertaken with a previous Erasmus + project named “Cleaning in Healthcare” whose goal was to design a competences framework for service assistant in hospitals. The same partners took part in this previous project and in HIT project. Considering the results of CIH, it seemed obvious to partners to work together again in order to devise materials to promote this trade as well as educational materials to facilitate the implementation of the pathway they had designed. More, educational policies of partner countries hightlight the importance of the use of digital tools in vocational training, thus the idea to design digital educational tools to train service assistants.
The need for this project is to bridge the skills gap of service assistants with the aim of avoiding the spreading of nosocomial diseases and offer a customized and flexible training offer for hospital cleaners.
HIT project aims at creating promotion tools to inspire people into cleaning jobs which are experiencing labour shortages ;toffering digital training tools to foster flexitbility in training pathways (notably with different shifts), an easy access to training.
The partnership is made up of 7 partners from 4 different countries : Estonia, Denmark, Finland and France. Three Finnish partners used ot working together in Kouvola municipality : a vocational training centre called KSAO and two organisations Kastek and Carea in charge of human ressources and cleaning staff in hospitals. In Estonia, two partners are committed into the project : Jarvama County Vocational school which is the school which contributed to the creation of the competences framework and is the lonely school delivering the hospital cleaner training in EStonia, and a training centre for adults expert in cleaning techniques. In Denmark, a vocational training centre is involved (initial and ongoing education) and in France, the coordinator is GIP-FCIP de l’académie de Caen which closely works with the National Education network for adult education and also with VET schools of the region.
The main activities undertaken during the project are intellectual outputs :
– a video to promote the cleaning trades in 5 languages : value the importance of the tasks carried out by hospital cleaners in the hygiene chain to avoid the spreading of nosocomial diseases and value the professional techniques.
– an e-assessment tool in 5 languages. It is based upon the competences framework devised with the previous project CIH. It is proposed with guidelines in order to determine the competences and knowledge to bridge for each learner.
– a mobile app made up 5 mini-games so as to train people to basic gestures, techniques and knowledge to ensure a high standard quality cleaning. These games are very visual to foster learning by migrants with very few knowledge of the hosting country.
– an educational guide in 5 languages to ease the implementation of the digital tools developed during the lifespan of the project. In each country of the partnership, tools have been experimented by professionals (either cleaning or training professionals) and also learners. A report has been written about this experimentation phase. At first, the partnership had targeted 60 people for the experimentation and finally, 158 people took part in it and gave their feedback so that we could improve the tools.
Four multiplier events were organized to promote the results of the project: one per country.
The quality of the results have been highlighted by cleaning professionals during the experimentation as well as by training providers. They underlined the easy access to the tools and the ease-of-use. Partners are going to include them into their professional practices and training offer. The organization of events has been the opportunity to improve the relationship between training providers and professionals : cleaning companies, hospitals, professional associations, guidance centres …. which could work together and contribute to the promotion of the trade. Another positive aspect is the inclusion of digital tools into this type of training, very few digital tools are developed in this sector.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 236163,84 Eur

Project Coordinator

GIP-FCIP de l’académie de Caen & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Kouvolan kaupunki (City of Kouvola)
• JÄRVAMAA KUTSEHARIDUSKESKUS
• OÜ Puhastusekspert
• Kastek Oy
• Kymenlaakson sairaanhoito- ja sosiaalipalvelujen kuntayhtymä
• SKIVE COLLEGE
• ACADEMIE DE CAEN RECTORAT