<< Objectives >>Primary goal is to create training material and tools to improve the digital skills of professional nurses towards facilitating them manage the ever-demanding telecare services, bridge the competence gaps in basic digital heath literacy and employ advanced healthcare technologies.The results are expected bring value to professionals through enhanced skills, healthier lives to wide public, and savings to authorities (decrease in healthcare costs and optimization in national care resources).<< Implementation >>• Identification of missing skills and digital gaps of professional nurses on TeleCare services, including good practices guide• Development of the learning units and training courses and assessment material both for trainers and trainees• Digital Tools Development -Interactive Web platform, e-modules, mobile applications and Virtual Trainer, including technical guides• Development of a dissemination plan and impact analysis, including exploitation activities (events, publications, synergies)<< Results >>• Associated partners will be able to integrate/create new training programs for their nurses staff • Training centers may expand their training expertise to more health-oriented objectives• Associated partners will be able to merge with relevant stakeholders in the sector, creating synergies• Governmental / regional organizations may include the topic in their future policies and funding strategies• Training Institutions can make use of the developed digital tools and DataBank resources

In the era of Europe 2020 Strategy, for overcoming the socio-economic crisis affecting European countries, of boosting growth and jobs and of fostering social equity and inclusion, this project aims to use the potential of Europe’s human and social capital originating from higher education’s institutes and the industry, in order to exchange and transfer knowledge and know-how in food science and technology education, by the creation and development of a network that will provide opportunities for cooperation among stakeholders. This partnership consists of 4 higher education institutes, namely Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly (Greece), Catholic University of Portugal, Cyprus University of Technology, University of Leon (Spain) and Technological Educational Institute of Athens (Greece). All higher education partners have been previously successfully involved in European Education Projects and it is aimed to blend experience and good practices previously acquired in order to make steps forward for enhancing the quality and relevance of the learning offer in food science and technology education. Additionally this partnership includes an IT Specialist Partner originating from the industry (SystServ), a Dissemination Specialist (ANKA) and also has a series of collaborating partners from Food Industries from the participating countries for developing case studies material for training purposes. Universities, national and regional development and education agencies will also act as collaborating partners in order to facilitate the dissemination of the project’s outcome. The general objectives of this project are:1. enhancing the quality and relevance of the learning offer in education by developing new and innovative education approaches and supporting the dissemination of best practices in food science and technology education2. promoting innovative practices in education by supporting personalised learning approaches, collaborative learning and critical thinking, strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), open educational resources (OER), open and flexible learning, virtual mobility and other new pedagogies 3. increasing labour market relevance of learning provision and qualifications and reinforcing links between education with the world of the food industry4. improving the capacities of the participating universities in the areas of strategic development, quality of learning provision and internationalizationThe project is based in the following key activities dealing with Research and Training needs Analysis to evaluate the training needs in Food Science and Technology Study Programmes in European Higher Education Organizations, in order to ensure that EU labor has the skills and knowledge to face the emerging food sector market related to non conventional foods (namely functional, nano, organic/eco) production, food safety and regulatory affairs, marketing and entrepreneurship. Relevant to the needs training material and case studies will be developed and uploaded on an on line learning platform to be constructed by the partnership, introducing innovative education training materials for EU Universities, by enhancing the potential of the agri-food sector for the production and promotion of functional foods in Europe (including all the ethical and safety aspects).In summary the expected results include:1. Intellectual outputs (training material and case studies) based on exchange of good practices (technology and pedagogical)2. Blended mobility for creating the material and pilot test the proposed teaching method 3. Intensive study/training programmes4. Dissemination of teaching methods/materialsThe impact of the project has to do mainly with the development of an innovative and quality training program in the emerging fields of food science and technology, using entrepreneurial and marketing opportunities simultaneously, as a mean for enhancing competitiveness, pro activeness and extroversion in the participating countries. Thus, the project will give the opportunity to develop the existing intellectual property of the stakeholders and create new knowledge in specific fields, leading to a knowledge intensive business. Furthermore, the project wishes to develop an innovative multimedia based training program that will act as a multipurpose tool for academic purposes, research, merging industry with academia, networking and synergies development from the participating countries and internationally, that will remain active beyond the course of this project.

The strategic vision behind the project is ultimately to contribute to the battle against climate change by helping to find more sustainable ways to move freight across short distances and reduce Co2 emissions in cities. Most freight in cities is currently moved over short distances by trucks and vans using fossil fuels, primarily diesel. A movement is currently growing to replace these types of haulage with electrically powered cargo vehicles based on bicycles, but with a much greater capacity than a traditional bicycle courier: the 'e-cargo bike' , with an electric motor to assist the rider, has no harmful emissions and is quieter than freight carrying vans, and if widely adopted in cities will make a significant contribution to air quality and reduce noise pollution. The context of this project is therefore to support moves to transfer as much as possible of the freight/goods being moved within the urban environment in Europe, from diesel and petrol vehicles to electrically powered cargo bikes. To achieve this, the project aims to help support any municipality, business or social enterprise which uses or intends to use an e-cargo bike to deliver its operations or services.In every country of the project partnership, and more widely across Europe, companies are adopting e-cargo bikes for sustainable short distance freight logistics. However, this is being done in a piecemeal manner, and there are no overall agreed standards for operators, even within individual countries. Having consulted widely within the sector, it has become apparent that one of the most important areas that needs to be addressed is the competence of e-cargo bike riders, who are required to pilot quite large and sometimes heavy loads through busy city streets. Riders are not currently required to have any kind of driving licence, whether for a motor cycle or other vehicle, in order to operate e-cargo bikes, and any basic training they receive is particular to the company or enterprise that employs them.This project therefore aims to fill this gap, by first of all identifying the knowledge, skills and competences required by e-cargo bike riders and then by developing, testing and promoting a training programme to meet these needs. At all stages of the process, members of the project partnership will consult locally with relevant companies and enterprises, and more widely with relevant bodies such as the UKCLF and the ECLF. Each member of the project partnership has been required to nominate as a non-formal 'Associated Partner' a local company, enterprise or municipality which uses or plans to use e-cargo bikes for logistics, and these companies will form the first line of research, testing and promotion.The project therefore targets in the broader sense companies and municipalities using or planning to use e-cargo bikes for short distance delivery and logistics, and the training programme to be developed is targeted specifically at e-cargo bike riders, to enable them to ride, operate their vehicles, and carry out required tasks in a safe, skilled and competent manner.The overarching aims of the project are to:- Help shape the future of urban freight mobility and promote the use of e-cargo bikes for delivering commercial light goods- Help support existing e-cargo bike logistics operations and new businesses/social enterprises in the partner countries- Engage with various national and local authorities and other relevant stakeholders to help to deliver our aims and objectives- Utilise online communications to promote and encourage our work- Co-operate with research and educational programmes to clarify and develop our aims and objectives- Explore partnerships with bodies supportive of our aims and objectives, such as the ECLF (European Cycle Logistics Federation) and the UKCLF (United Kingdom Cycle Logistics Federation)Specific project objectives are to:- identify the knowledge, skills and competences required by e-cargo bike riders- develop, test and promote a training toolkit to meet the needs of riders, and also the needs of the enterprises, companies and municipalities either currently involved in the use of e-cargo bikes for delivering commercial light goods, or planning to do so.The project will achieve these objectives by the seven partners working collaboratively, both with each other and also with Associated Partners. The ultimate result of the project will be to contribute to the establishment and proliferation of e-cargo bikes by ensuring that the workforce can be properly prepared and trained, and has the necessary knowledge, skills and competences.Following testing and evaluation, the training package, or 'Toolkit', developed will be made freely available for organisations that wish to use it, and also to industry bodies such as ECLF for adoption and 'badging' as approved training. It is expected that gaining the approval of such industry bodies will greatly enhance transferability.

We are constantly facing natural disasters and other crisis situations that present a constant threat and struggle to humanity on a national and global scale. Based on past experience, humanity is still not efficiently educated nor prepared to combat these types of situations. Hence, a redesign of the educational approach and development of innovative skills with a more prosocial and proactive mindset is needed. In the preparation of the project 3 pillars on how to achieve this have been contemplated: crisis management, entrepreneurial mindset, and innovative STEM tools, namely Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) and 3D printing.The project focuses on educating primary school teachers aiming at improving their digital/ICT literacy, entrepreneurship skills, and equipping them with tools to motivate and inspire pupils. In this manner, as a secondary target, the education of pupils between 11 – 14 years of age will be considered.The project will develop a thorough curriculum and handbook for teachers on all three pillars (O1) which will be accompanied by the teachers’ toolkit (O2) composed of three guides that will include theoretical foundations, detailed instructions, practical lessons, real-life cases and other support mechanisms for teachers. A special booklet to help teachers incorporate innovative pedagogical methods in existing lesson dynamics will also be provided. The consortium will also develop a web platform (O3) with e-learning modules in project partner languages. The web platform will offer teachers the possibility of highest possible guidance in knowledge transfer to pupils using purposefully created video content. The platform will also serve as a project-work interface. Lastly, the awarding framework (O4), will be developed and “Crisis Hack” competition will be organized further expanding skills and competencies of teacher and pupils.The main activities directly correspond to the set objectives including the creation of curriculum, learning and teaching material, development of e-learning platform and award framework. Moreover, dissemination is another important in-focus activity to achieve a broad uptake of our innovations by schools and teachers from the partner countries (the United Kingdom, Slovenia, Greece and Italy). Inclusion of the training activity to pass on the learning units and be able to objectively validate them, and the organization of a Multiplier Event aimed to provide a rich and empowering method of education to teachers and stakeholders of the European national education systems, are also key activities of the project.Relating to more specific project activities of learning and teaching, we will use learner-centred and teacher-led methodology interlaced with experiential, learning-by-doing methods which ensure stronger immersion into the content and education and higher knowledge retention due to the hands-on and knowledge pass-onwards approaches. In combination with blended or hybrid learning, combining virtual and physical spaces, both teachers and learners will use some of the latest educational tools, enabling them flexible and accelerated learning experience.Building on a blend of lean and agile project management with critical path analysis, 5 consortium meetings plus regular remote status meetings, effective and transparent coordination and collaboration will be ensured.The results will comprise of:- Empowerment and raised confidence of teachers in the field of crisis management, entrepreneurship and growth mindset and use of AR, VR and 3D printing technologies in their lessons- Increase the use of innovative methods in classrooms by teachers- Real-life connection with the practical application providing a stronger relation to the topics- Higher development potential of teachers’ ICT/digital qualifications- A heightened feeling of importance in active participation and problem-solving in crisis situations- Better coping mechanisms dealing with crisis situations for teachers due to learning crisis management, and a life lesson for pupils to be able to tackle even the most difficult situations and never give up, but always seek for solutionsThe developed curriculum and new pedagogical methods will not only ensure future-proof educational content for teachers but will also inspire pupils to discover new passions. The knowledge from this project will enable pupils to grow up into proactive members of society and be ready to combat crisis situations in a more preventive way compared to observed COVID-19 handling. This encouraged us to prepare curriculum and innovative STEM materials that will equip teachers and pupils to be prepared, to combat fiercely and succeed in the future crisis situations emerging from natural environments as well as man-made challenges, while improving pedagogical and educational systems, educating pupils and upskilling teachers across Europe.

"<< Background >>Digital Health Literacy is the ability to search for, find, understand, and evaluate health information from computerised sources and to apply the acquired knowledge to address or solve a health problem. The project will enable citizens to better manage their health and disease, improve prevention, enable more accurate diagnosis and care and facilitate communication with health professionals. It will also help to ensure a more equal access to healthcare, facilitating access to health information for adults with fewer opportunities and fewer possibilities to access to reliable sources on a topic of great importance such as health, especially in this time of global health emergency.The efforts of the project will focus particularly on the recognition of news and their understanding, following the EU’s hope as well, which ""has committed itself to protecting societies, citizens and freedoms from hybrid threats, including misinformation and disinformation actions"", as underlined in the 2019-2024 strategic agenda. As for the pandemic and related news, there was even a talk of an ""infodemia"" and an increase in cybercrime in relation to covid-19 (WHO): a further incentive to work to ensure that every European citizen is equipped with the skills to move safely in the online information landscape.The health emergency has exacerbated the difficulties already present, increasing the differences between those who have digital and health literacy bases in general, and those who have more difficulties in accessing and understanding complex information. As a consequence, the following emerged: the circulation of unreliable news, the growing mistrust of citizens towards the institutions and at the same time an overload of health services that have to mediate between the need of citizens to be informed and unclear information circulating on the net. This becomes particularly urgent and important in this delicate period of mass vaccination of people in all European countries.At the same time, the DHeLiDA platform will offer an open space for dialogue and discussion, joint case solutions, and direct testimony from people.From the point of view of the participating organisations, it was found that there was a need to combine elements aimed at digitisation with those related to the more specific field of information in the context of social inclusion: the project was then built on the basis of the possibilities that each partner could bring for the common objective of creating an easy-to-use tool, with highly accessible content but based on scientific rigour and advanced digital skills.Working with viewpoints coming from different contexts within the EU, namely with countries in the Mediterranean area - sharing some features, including the specificity of migration - and countries in Northern Europe, certainly allows both to evaluate how much the contents to be produced can be made ""transversal"" and to understand how much need we have to develop and deepen challenges related to the context and individual specificities. Thus, the challenge that DHeLiDA receives is to hold together a strongly international context, providing tools that can give answers also at the local level. In addition, for this reason each partner will work on the territory with its network of contacts to further involve the target group. This approach is also confirmed by the typology of expected outputs, including the ""Netiquette"" on health, which also intends to be a means to ensure the replicability and sustainability of the project.<< Objectives >>The project has as general objectives the reduction of the digital health literacy gap, which can cause social exclusion, the inclusion of potentially vulnerable target groups (especially elderly people, migrants and their families) and the development of new skills that can bring to a better social and health care, both for the individual and for the community.Bearing this in mind, the specific objectives of our proposal are the following:1) Defining a framework of digital skills in health sector (DigcompHealth) to facilitate adult educators to plan and propose flexible training courses that meet the needs of the multiple target groups of adult education.2) Developing and testing a modular and blended training path, based on the previous framework aiming at advancing digital health literacy at European level by pointing at the proliferation of virtuous processes of collective awareness, peer learning and crowsdsourcing.3) Building a set of training tools (training toolkits) including a ""European Netiquette on Health"", an act of behaviour with recommendations on how to promote health literacy for training centres and policymakers, together with guidelines for transferability and upscaling of project results.<< Implementation >>The work programme of the project is designed for the effective achievement of the general and specific objectives, including all the necessary activities for this purpose: awareness raising and collective awareness (PR1), the skills framework and training tools (PR2 and PR3), health Netiquette for enhancement, sustainability and replicability (PR3). The PR2 and PR3 constitute the central phase of the project and together provide the distinctive structure around which the entire project is built from the andragogic point of view.The methodology is the following:Phase 1: Defining the information and skills framework environment (M1-M9)During the first nine months of the project, in addition to the focus on the beginning of the project activities from a technical and administrative point of view, the partners will cooperate in the production of the first two tangible products of the project (PR): The Digital Health Collective Awareness Platform (PR1) and the DigcompHealth Foundation Reference Skills Framework (PR2).Although on two different levels, both represent an essential element for running the training and carrying out research activities planned to achieve the operational objectives of the project. In both cases, from the first months of operation, the project proposes a participatory design methodology with the active inclusion of target groups and key stakeholders, fully embracing the Commission’s suggestions on the need to develop learner-centred training courses which are highly flexible in terms of usage methods and modularity of their content.Phase 2: Development of the methodological framework and instruments (M10-M14)In this five-months second phase, the tools and guidelines will be designed to equip adult trainers in the exploitation of the previously prepared resources and their application to the reference target group: Disadvantaged adults (patients, elderly, migrants, etc.). The conclusion of this phase will correspond with a transnational training of 25 educators who will then act as multipliers of the innovation proposed by the project.Phase 3: Field Trial (M15-M21)It is certainly the most delicate phase from the point of view of operational risks and the achievement of the expected objectives. From M15 to M21 the partners will mentor the respective trainers in joint activities of exploitation of the platform of collective awareness and validation of the training toolkit. At the same time, data will be collected to review project outputs and to publish documents that will promote the sustainability of the project.Phase 4: Digital health Netiquettes in Europe (M22-M24)Within the PR3, a section dedicated to the creation of a tool for the enhancement of the project and the tools contained in the toolkit has been planned. Thus, the last three months of the project will be dedicated to putting to use the results obtained during the project and to disseminate them through the organization of multiplier events and the direct involvement of policy makers and all other stakeholders interested in supporting the initiative even after the end of the period of eligibility.<< Results >>With regard to the tangible results of the project, the DHeLiDA project is expected to:- generate an online community of active and experienced users (at least 100) in the field of digital health who will become part of the collective awareness platform of the project (PR1);- map and make available a significant number (at least 500) of articles, web pages, applications, training resources, legal texts and best practices in Europe and worldwide on the topic of Digital Health Literacy (PR1);- develop the first DigcompHealth Foundation (Basic Digital Skills Framework in Health) deriving from DigComp 2.1 with examples of use for all five areas of core competence (1-2) (PR2);- design and experiment a modular and mixed 40-hours training course which can be used by adult trainers, health workers, youth workers, and all those (3 in each partnership country = 15 in total, which in turn will train five more educators each, for a total of 90 trained educators) who support the socio-educational inclusion of disadvantaged groups (PR3);- involve as many citizens as possible from disadvantaged groups (at least 10 for each trainer involved = 900 in total) in the use of training material and the platform of collective awareness (Crowdsourcing platform);- collect sufficient data to implement an initial impact assessment on which to base recommendations and guidelines on a European Netiquette for Health (PR3) accepted and signed by at least 50 institutions providing services in the digital health sector (universities, training centres, hospitals, health centres and professional associations).The Project Results are:PR1: Crowdsourcing Platform on Digital Health LiteracyPR2: DigCompHealth Foundation FrameworkPR3: DHeLIDA Training and sustainability ToolkitIn terms of other outcomes:The progress of digital health literacy will increasingly allow greater autonomy and personal empowerment, with a gradual improvement in the quality of life. Furthermore, considering the specificity of the target group, there will also be greater equity and sustainability of public health.Specifically, regarding skills, all those who will take part in the activities of the project, will have the opportunity to:- develop skills related to navigation, information search, evaluation, relevance, participation and collaboration in a digital health environment;- understand and use open data, mobile devices, applications and social media in an informed and correct manner;- create and promote common, ethical, responsible, information and exchange spaces and digital content about health by using existing tools, resources and by reporting possible alternatives."