The European Commission describes ageing as one of the greatest social and economic challenges of the 21st century for European societies. In 2014, the proportion of persons aged 65 or over reached 18.5% in the EU and it is projected to further increase in the future to almost 30% by 2080. The capacity of public social care organizations will not be able to meet the increasing demand, they will not be able to ensure appropriate number of places for the increasing number of elderly people in needs of institutional care. To avoid the crisis there are strong ongoing efforts to support the active and healthy ageing of elderly people, to keep them at home as long as possible, by providing them effective home care. There is a strong need for new approaches in the social sector, to turn the traditional care services into more tailored personal care, and into telecare services to improve the life quality of elderly people. The ICT-based telecare systems hold the potential to overcome this difficulties, but the lack of advanced digital skills of caregivers is strong hindering factor of their wide spread. GRANDIS XXI. project aims to develop curricula and e-learning course of "Networked Elderly Caregiver" delivered online through attractive, motivating digital learning content for social caregivers. The course will develop the advanced digital skills of social carers needed for effective use of the ICT-based telecare systems, help them to use this potential to overcome on the challenges of the demographic trends. Educational researchers, vocational educational teachers and trainers, IT professionals, the stakeholders of the health and social sectors are working together in order to turn the new paradigm of the educational theories - of networked learning - into practical methodology of the lifelong learning.The objective of the project is to develop a practice oriented, competence based, modular curricula and further training program for the vocational education for formal and informal social caregivers, to prepare them to apply web-based tools for communication, keeping contact through the Internet for supporting independent living of elderly people. The project includes elements of transfer of innovation, in which the target country is Hungary and the knowledge providers are the UK, Ireland and France, as these countries has more results and experiences in eHealth systems.All results (will be freely available for the European educators through the knowledge sharing web 2.0 applications and the Euroean platform of Open Educational Resources (OER) as well in three European languages, in Hungarian, in English and in French.Target group of the project:- students of vocational education, - formal caregivers, care workers,- informal caregivers (relatives, family carers)- „young” elderly people in pension from related professions (e.g. teachers), who are open and active enough to work as informal caregivers in online communities.The planned outcomes areO1: Training Needs for 21st Century Social Caregivers O2: Curriculum for Networked Elderly Caregivers aligned with the European and national standards (EQF, NQF, ECVET)O3: Learning Content development, translation, reviewO4: Implementation of multilingual eLearning platform and course componentsO5: Networked Elderly Caregiver Certification PartnershipP1 PROMPT-H INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONAL, TRADE AND SERVICE LTD., HUP2 SZÁMALK - Szalézi Szakközépiskola, HUP3 Veszprémi Szakképzési Centrum Öveges József Szakképző Iskolája és Kollégiuma, HUP4 Balatonalmádi Család- és Gyermekjóléti Központ és Szociális Szolgálat, HUP5 Aston University AU United Kingdom UKP6 The Irish Computer Society ICS IEP7 Guimel GUIMEL FRP8 Corvus Ltd. CORVUS Hungary HU
Introduction Twenty-first century Europe is experiencing an uplift in the health of its population, with adults living longer, healthier lives than ever before. This has an impact on the demographic profile of our communities, with a higher proportion of older adults among the population. The project is aligned with the problems caused by demographic changes all over the world where the number of older adults is increasing every year and creating serious load problems for accompanying social and health systems. This was recognised by the European Union Commission when it started a Research and Development programme called Active and Assisted Living in 2008 (www.aal-europe.eu), aiming to stimulate the development of ICT-based systems and new models of elderly care. These systems support the active ageing and wellbeing of seniors at home in order to avoid their hospitalisation, and to stay in their own house and environment as long as possible. The purpose of Grandis was to improve vocational education and training to optimise adoption and successful use of these systems. Objectives Grandis XXI. project aimed at providing a possible answer to the challenges of the ageing societies by developing curriculum and online course for the social caregivers of the 21st century based on a requirement analysis by involving the target group and beneficiaries from the partner countries. The main results of the project is the course "Connected Care of Older Adults" a competence-based, modular training programme designed for formal and informal carers. The course prepares carers for effective use of ICT-based tele-care and communication systems that help monitor, manage, and improve the ability of people to live independently and interact with their care network. It aims to equip carers with an understanding of the demand for new approaches to care and to enhance its delivery through the use of a variety of eHealth technologies and smart devices, like home appliance monitoring, activity sensor wristbands, movement monitors, and even some tele-diagnostic tools installed in the home. Topics addressed by the project: 1. ICT - new technologies - digital competences 2. Health and wellbeing 3. New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses Target groups - Students of vocational education - Formal caregivers, care workers, informal caregivers involved in the long-term-care of their relatives - „Young” elderly people retired from related professions (e.g. teachers), who are interested in working as informal caregivers in online communities. Partnership Grandis Consortium includes 8 organisations from 5 countries, among them vocational educational schools from Hungary, VET providers from Hungary and Ireland, universities from Spain and the United Kingdom, and a society with social activities from France. In the consortium experts from vocational and higher education, information technology, social care and gerontology worked together in the development of the planned intellectual outcomes. • Prompt-H Information Technology Training, Trade and Service LTD., Hungary • Szalézi Vocational School, Hungary • Veszprémi Vocational Centre Öveges József Vocational School, Hungary • Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain, • Aston University, United Kingdom • The Irish Computer Society Ireland • Guimel Association, France • Corvus Adult Educational Provider, Hungary The beneficiaries of the project results in the long term are older adults from 55+ but with a focus particularly on those over 65. Results and impact attained, long-term benefits The indicators reached demonstrate the impact of the project: for about 700 older adults, 400 teachers and trainers, care workers were directly involved into the needs-analysis, the experiments and pilots and 48 Grandis certificates were issued in the five countries. The training program was built up in accordance with the educational initiatives of the European Union: EQF, ECVET and DigComp, what ensures the European wide usability and sustainability of the results. The long term benefits are supported by publishing the learning content under the Creative Commons license of "Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International". This license allows all European organisations to use, distribute, modify and even commercialise freely Grandis curriculum, learning content and is allowed to implement the training course in any type of e-learning systems, and to deliver the course in any kind of forms (face-to-face, online, blended form) regarding the special needs of their target group. Project portal: http://grandis.prompt.hu/ (dissemination platform for visitors) E-learning platform: https://moodle.grandis21.hu/ Contact:: [email protected]