MOBILE TRAINING FOR HOME AND HEALTH CAREGIVER FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER PEOPLE Consortium Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey Project Coordinator Gazi University is one of the biggest universities of Turkey with over 68.000 students including 56.000 undergraduate and 12.000 postgraduate students currently studying in its 171 academic departments. Contact person: Prof. Dr. Seyhan FIRAT Email: [email protected] Ministry of Family and Social Policy, General Directorate of Services for Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly, Turkey The General Directorate coordinates the activities on preparing national policies and strategies aimed at preventing disabilities, rendering education, employment and rehabilitation services; ensuring people with disabilities fully and equally participate in social life without facing any discrimination. Contact person: Mr. Tayyar Kuz Email: [email protected] PhoenixKM BVBA, Belgium PhoenixKM is a consultancy with extensive expertise in the field of education and training that targets people with disabilities, but also their stakeholders, while making use of the benefits offered by ICT. Contact person: Mr. Karel Van Isacker Email: [email protected] INTERPROJECTS Ltd., Bulgaria INTERPROJECTS is a training provider, having its activities fully directed towards people with disabilities and older people. Their team consists of experts in the field of accessibility issues, career orientation and guidance, employment, mentoring, e-games and networks of employers of disability etc. Contact person: Mrs. Tonka Cholakova Email: [email protected] University of Athens, Greece The Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media operates within the Faculty of Communication and Mass Media Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The Laboratory serves research and educational needs in the domain of new technologies and their applications in communication, education and the mass media. Contact person: Prof. Constantinos Mourlas Email: [email protected] Europäischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungsträger, Germany EVBB (Europäischer Verband Beruflicher Bildungsträger) is an Umbrella-Organisation of 50 Vocational Training Centres in 21 European and International countries and is based in Germany. In 2012 EVBB set up a Quality Charter , taking into account the actual developments in European Quality Policy such as EQAVET and EQARF. Contact person: Mr. Fritz-Gerhard KUHN Email: [email protected] Sub-programme: Leonardo da Vinci Action: Multilateral Projects for Development of innovation Sector skills alliances Start date: 01 January 2014 End date: 31 December 2015 Duration: 24 months Get more information on: www.mcare-project.eu facebook.com/MCareproj twitter.com/MCareproject “Support innovative and reliable training towards high quality care for people with disabilities and older people” This project (539913-LLP-1-2013-1-TR-LEONARDO-LMP) has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication (communication) reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. Beneficiaries About the project Project outcomes Unemployed and / or low skilled adults (18+) who want to obtain up-to-date knowledge, skills and competencies through innovative mobile Personal Care (VET) training. Current employees in Personal Care and Social service sectors who are seeking to improve their competences and skills. VET training centres that can extend their training portfolio by offering such innovative training resources. People with disabilities and individuals 55+ who will be direct beneficiaries of high quality and reliable personal care services provided by well-trained practitioners. M-CARE provides the training framework and content for unemployed and low-qualified people to become personal assistants. The direct effect is twofold: low skilled people will gain knowledge, skills and competencies required to undertake the personal caregivers (PCG) work, while the beneficiaries (people with disabilities and older people) will benefit from improved PCG service provision. The project will also establish a strict assessment to ensure that the candidates are competent and can meet the requirements of a PCG job. M-CARE will deliver a blended innovative training approach, embracing: face-to-face, virtual (using online learning environment), on the job training (using mobile training support), with a gaming component. Each of these modes will be supported with text, audio and video, thus allowing the trainee to improve their PCGs skills at any desired moment and also while being at the workplace. The results will be optimised on an EU level through the involvement of key stakeholders and gatekeepers. Dedicated PCG curriculum: understanding the job of PCGs; how people recover and the idea of resilience, important issues in delivering PCG services; coaching, collaborating and managing crises and actual core tasks (e.g. housework, shopping, preparing meals, maintaining of personal hygiene, etc.). Pre-/post-assessment of the competences and the suitability (legal and health checks) of PCG candidate. PCG online accessible training portal - a portal that fully embeds social media to propagate the training modules. Mobile learning application using an educational gaming experience (for Android mobiles and tabs) which will allow the user to learn in a flexible manner, also when being on the workplace.