D-LIGHT Network

AN ERASMUS+ KA2 PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: MARCH 2022 - JUNE 2024

Mutual Needs - Shared Solutions

Development of high-quality digital learning solutions is difficult and costly for all VET schools on their own. However, could it be feasible and realistic to share this burden by developing solutions together - for joint use by all - to specific VET Skills Development issues that are transnationally relevant for all of us?

This is the key vision behind the ERASMUS+ partnership, Network Building for Digital Learning Innovation in Geriatric Healthcare Technology (D-LIGHT Network). We believe that by developing smart mapping and collaboration processes, we will be able to identify skills development topics relevant to all societies within the EU, labour markets, and individual vocational education and training programmes within social and healthcare for elders.

We are confident that we will be able to identify and showcase innovative digital ways to address these issues and co-develop solutions for application by all. You are welcome to follow our journey on this website.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE D-LIGHT PROJECT

Cooperation and alignment

To develop high-quality digital learning solutions, each project partner/ VET school has teamed up with one or two companies or organisations forming a local cluster. We believe that these clusters can contribute to the quality of the solutions in the best way possible and that they can qualify the quality. With the right cooperative partners, we will balance our expectations making sure everybody’s aligned according to the project plan and timeline.

Throughout the project period, each partner in the D-LIGHT Network will carry out a partnership event. At each event one project result should be reached for the partners to move on to the next step for a continuous progress. In addition to this, every partner is to host two regional multiplier events, upholding a continuous dissemination of the project results, to minimum three representatives from at least five VET schools per event from the relevant cluster region.

Furthermore, the project coordinators at each partner will meet in scheduled online meetings for updates, monitoring and evaluation inputs, upcoming activity planning, and any revisions to project plans requiring partner consensus.

To provide teachers from all Health VET specialties of the partners, the D-LIGHT Network will offer a teacher training programme to be hosted by the project lead to ensure that this wider pool of trainers receive methodology knowledge and practical transnational methodology application skills comparable to the key project team.

The final regional multiplier event is set to be held with the project partner in the Netherlands including a transnational multiplier event demonstrating digital showcases. Hereafter partners will proactively seek to engage and facilitate the exploitation of the published project results by the widest possible European VET sector audience.

Each partner is responsible for regional cluster partners’ contribution in the project whether it is designing and development of digital learning solution showcase or discussing and validating results drafted at a partnership event.

You can look at our Project Implementation Model to get a visual impression of how the flow in the project will be carried out.

DIGITAL LEARNING SOLUTIONS SHOWCASES MADE FOR ALL WITHIN THE EU

The fundamental purpose of this project is to identify innovative digital learning solutions easily to be accessed by teachers in VET schools across the EU.

Having identified and chosen the relevant topics, five different digital learning solutions will be developed and tested before the final event where all the solutions will be demonstrated as showcases. Below you will find information on each partner’s showcase, and for most of the showcases you will find yourself able to try:

All five digital showcases with the instruction to guide the users
A hands-on experience figuring out if our digital learning solutions could be of interest to you, your students, and the way you work with pedagogy and didactic methods.

All you need to do is to press the link to enter the showcases of the digital learning solutions.

The identified topic: Bodily Functions
The solution: Digital Rehabilitation

This learning solution teaches students to assess the relevance, suitability, and safety of preventive physical rehabilitation for elderly people through support and guiding elderly people to retain their levels of physical functionality for as long as possible.

Furthermore, the learning solution teaches students to use a digital tool to screen the physical functionality of elderly people to both produce and implement individually tailored exercise programs for preventive physical rehabilitation.

Digital Showcase Denmark

The identified topic: Daily Functioning
The solution: E-services and e-products

This Learning solution teaches students how to choose suitable E-services and E-products; where to find information and how to guide the elder to use these services and products by making everyday life more secure and at the same time ease your own work by using available and suitable E-services and E-products.

This learning solution also gives hints on how to notice problems and how to set realistic goals.

Digital showcase Estonia

The identified topic: Meaningfulness
The solution: Person centered activities

This learning solution teaches the students to guide and support the elders in person-centered activities with meaningful choices in everyday life. They will learn to listen to an elder’s life story and the importance of this to visualize the interests that the person has by filling in the Tree of Life.

Students will strengthen their abilities to suggest meaningful options for person-centered activities for the client based on what is important for the client on exactly that day.

Digital showcase Findland

The identified topic: Participation
The solution: Networking

This learning solution engages students in case studies where they learn to guide the elders in enhancing their social network through participation in activities.

The students are to take preferences and capabilities of the client and the network into consideration. Students will also learn how to assist the elders in finding new activities to further expand their network.

Digital showcase Netherlands

The identified topic: Mental well-being
The solution: VR for memory

This learning solution is designed to help the elders with mental health issues through VR therapy. Through a series of lessons and activities both students and teachers will be able to stimulate and develop mental competences in elder people helping them to prevent mental illness.

Students will have the opportunity to learn about new technologies applied to the development of their professional future either in hospitals or social and health institutions.

Digital showcase Spain