P4 Skilled and socially inclusive region
4.2. More aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region
Southern Finland - Estonia
01.09.2015 - 31.12.2017
€1 184 999
€921 249
ENDED. The project SAFHY aims at developing labour skills of cleaning service and health care services in Estonia and Finland by aligning curricula and training material both for vocational education as well as the labour market. The project promotes learning and professional skills in these two sectors to reduce hygiene risks and infections while increasing safer environments in health care and cleaning services.
Health care and hygienic cleaning together is one of the highest topic in the whole world and its importance is increasing because of Ebola-type infections. The project promotes using digital network solutions for developing skills and avoiding global diffusion of these diseases. In practice the project improves two curricula and training methods for vocational education. The project also designs and implements pilot education to health care and cleaning services by using digital learning platform.
As a result of the project aligns and enriches two curricula and produces cross-border multilingual digital learning material for students both in cleaning services and health care. Digital learning material improves students’ skills considering hygiene and safer work environments as well as language skills. It also improves their competencies to enter the profession of their choice. Digital Learning material gives multilingual support for learners and teachers and even more for working leaders and workers. Development of working and language skills and also those better matching working opportunities have strong impact on increasing social inclusion.
Keski-Uudenmaan koulutuskuntayhtymä
Country: FI
Partner budget: 480.000 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 360.000 EUR ERDF
Osuuskunta Digital Robot Finland
Country: FI
Partner budget: 380.000 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 285.000 EUR ERDF
OÜ Puhastusekspert
Country: EE
Partner budget: 108.333 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 92.083 EUR ERDF
Tartu Health Care College
Country: EE
http://www.nooruse.ee/eng/homepage/
Partner budget: 108.333 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 92.083 EUR ERDF
Järvamaa Kutsehariduskeskus
Country: EE
Partner budget: 108.333 EUR
Amount of ERDF funding: 92.083 EUR ERDF
Mestaritoiminta Oy Järvenpään kaupunki
Country: FI
SOL Palvelut Oy
Country: FI
Nurmijärven kunta
Country: FI
Järvenpään kaupunki
Country: FI
Tartu University Hospital
Country: EE
AS Järva Haigla
Country: EE
Expected results
Care worker (EST): Care worker activities (20 ECVET) and Practical training (30 ECVET)
Practical Nurse (FIN): Nursing and care (20%) and Specialization in Nursing and care: Clinical Nursing care (20%)
Cleaner-Supervisor, EQF level 4 (EST): Cleaning and tidying up (40 ECVET) and Basic Cleaning (6 ECVET)
Vocational Qualification in Household and Cleaning (FIN): Maintenance Cleaning (20%) and Specialisation in cleaning services: Basic cleaning (20%)
Digital learning material improves students’ hygiene skills and safer environments as well as language skills. It also improves competencies to enter the profession. Competent professionals improve the quality of services, client satisfaction, orientation for the new staff and international co-operation.
The concrete result is a digital eLearning platform and training content for two sectors in platform. The content is result of wide collaboration of Estonian and Finnish vocational education and training as well as working life. Digital Learning material is expected to increase and spread widely to vocational education and working life giving multilingual support for learners and teachers and even more for working leaders and workers.
Digital material enables lifelong learning by increasing accessibility to learn more and develop skills. The project supports ICT techniques’ development and also those technologies using learning activities. Moreover, the costs of digital learning material are less than conventional materials' costs.
Development of working and language skills and also those better matching working opportunities have strong impact on increasing social inclusion.