The careNET project aims to develop ICT competencies in two at-risk groups - low-skilled care workers and older persons - to promote social inclusion and quality of life. Funded by the European Commission, the project involves 8 partners across Europe developing modular learning paths and resources. Key outputs include mapping domains of competencies, establishing Learning Relay Centers for training, and validating outputs through seminars in Spain and France. The project website and Facebook page provide further details.

1. 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

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
• 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. • 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

7. • Validation seminars in the piloting countries
(Spain and France)
• Conference on ICT and eSkills for Social Care
(combined with a video-conference / webinar
streamed online) in the framework of the
“Salon des services à la Personne” in Paris (5-7
December 2013)
Project events

8. http://www.carenetproject.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/carenetproject
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