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One of the current needs of the labour market in what qualified staff is concerned is the sector of Personal Caregiver/Geriatrics Technician. It is a fact that the world’s population is ageing. According to the United Nations, ‘virtually every country in the world is experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older persons in their population. Population ageing is poised to become one of the most significant social transformations of the XXI century, with implications for nearly all sectors of society, including labour and financial markets, the demand for goods and services, such as housing, transportation and social protection, as well as family structures and intergenerational ties’. On the other hand, there are many learners in VET, mainly in services sector, who have Special Needs or learning difficulties and that do not fit in the formal learning approach. They need to be prepared to integrate the labour market and answer their needs. It is thus the mission of VET schools to do this bridge and prepare all learners without exception to the current employment needs. Working with elderly people demands not only qualified people but specially caring and dedicated staff. So, this partnership is willing to help this target group integrating successfully in the labour market, enhancing their competences and skills and making them able to answer the needs of Day/Elderly Centres and contributing for their social and professional inclusion. Tackling with SEN individuals and individuals with learning difficulties and enhancing their competences and skills also means fighting poverty, social exclusion, racism and discrimination, and promoting social justice and gender equality. It provides a very strong basis to improve the socio-economic situation of many disadvantage people contributing better, at the same time, to the social, cultural and economic development of the community and country.Thus, it is not only about educating people in the identified sector, but also about empowering them to attain a better life for themselves and the society as a whole.The objective of this Project is to help transform groups of social and economic disadvantage (SEN and/or with learning difficulties students) into autonomous, useful people by providing a full range of innovative, appropriate and accessible Personal Care Assistance/Geriatrics education resources that can also be easily used in e-learning approach and to promote social inclusion and employability. The partnership will thus develop: Resources: a suite of appropriate learning resources that build literacy and technical competences related to the Sector of Personal Caregivers / Geriatrics Technician in 4 main areas - Diet & Nutrition; Basic health care; Community and social intervention; Animation activities - for the SEN or/and Learning Difficulties VET students, to include:•IO1: A set of 25 micro learning courses/curricula with a gamification strategy dealing with the above mentioned Geriatrics main areas, 2-6 for each selected theme (depending on the number of competences in each) for the development of competences in the respective professional area. It will include the e-curriculum, e-guidelines and e-contents (mainly e-presentations of easy understanding for each learning unit, according to the target group specificities). •IO2: A collection of 25 themed tutorial videos (2-4) for each selected theme, will be produced and upload in Youtube and in IO5 for viewing and use in the class or at home; they will support IO1. •IO3: a compendium of 25 inclusive web-quest challenge-based educational resources, (4-6) for each selected theme; they will support IO1. •IO4: a series of workshop lesson plans and tip sheets according to the curriculum /training programme designed in IO1. They will include concepts analysis, best practices and will play a crucial role in the understanding of the methodology and approaches used. They will allow the building of necessary skills to e- and bi-learning approaches, to understand Micro Learning Methodology, to learn how to develop and use the challenge-based educational resources and to create own challenge-based inclusive WebQuests.•IO5: A Bespoke Platform with a gamification methodology based on objectives and learning results achievement. It will contain at least the same number of games as the number of micro learning courses and will support IO1. It will be also developed and populated with all the innovative learning resources mentioned in the previous outputs. A short-training event for teachers/trainers so they can facilitate and manage the e-learning model developed, specially focused on micro-learning methodology, gamification strategies and webquests, as these are still quite new tools in pedagogical approaches. All resources developed will be in on-line formats in 5 partner languages and made available to all interested parties, with the open access requirements of the ERASMUS+ programme.
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