The careNET project is a 24-month, European Commission-funded project with 8 partners across Europe. The project aims to develop ICT competencies in care workers and older adults to promote social inclusion and quality of life. Key outputs include mapping competency domains, developing modular learning resources, establishing Learning Relay Centers, and deploying a networking application. The project will validate outputs through seminars in Spain and France and hold a conference in Belgium.

1. careNET: Building ICT competencies in the longterm 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

2. 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

3. careNET Partnership
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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)

4. 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.

5. Main target groups
Primary 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

6. Key Outputs
• 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

7. Project events
• Validation seminars in the piloting countries
(Spain and France)
• Conference on ICT and eSkills for Social Care
in Belgium

8. Further information and contact
http://www.carenetproject.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/carenetproject