careNET: Building ICT competencies in the long-term care sector to enhance quality of life for

older people and those at risk of exclusion

Ildikó Mázár, EDEN

LINQ, 16-17 May 2013, Rome

Basic information

• Funded by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme (Key Activity 3 – ICT; Multilateral projects)

• Funding period: January 2012 – December 2013 (24 months)

• 8 partners in the consortium

careNET Partnership• IFEF: Institut Fepem (France)• KCL: King’s College London (United Kingdom)• IRS: Institut per la Ricerca Sociale (Italy)• UNIPI: ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟΥ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑ (Greece)• FBIS: Fundación Burgos para la Investigación de la Salud

(Spain)• UCL: University College Lillebælt (Denmark)• EDEN: European Distance and E-Learning Network (United

Kingdom)• TLCR: Telecentre Europe (Belgium)

Aim and objectives

Developing a set of ICT competences in two identified‘at risk’target groups: •low ICT skilled care-workers and •older persons

to promote social inclusion and improvement of quality of life.

Main target groupsPrimary target group:• Group 1: institutions, organisations and individuals

who are directly involved in elderly care

Secondary target groups:• Group 2: specialised research groups involved in social

care research• Group 3: policy-makers in care systems from local to

European level

• Map of domains of competences• Designing and developing modular learning

paths and learning resources• Establishment of Learning Relay Centres (LRC)• Deployment of an open source networking

application

Key Outputs

• Validation seminars in the piloting countries (Spain and France)

• Conference on ICT and eSkills for Social Care in Belgium

Project events

http://www.carenetproject.eu/

https://www.facebook.com/carenetproject

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