Safety and Hygiene - safer environment

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The common challenge is the mobility of workforce and it´s obvious that it will increase in the future. This project tackles it by international cooperation developing and disseminating curricula and creating cross-border training material for vocational education. The overall objective of the project is to develop labour skills of cleaning service and health care services in Estonia and Finland. Key target is to promote learning and professional skills in these two sectors specially in the area of hygiene. This helps reduce hygienerisks and infections while increasing safer environments in health care and cleaning services. Better professional skills also quarantee more equal opportunities for people in search of work at Baltic area and that way have impact on decreasing the social exclusion. Main result is to produce multilingual digital learning material to vocational education and working life needs which improves also language skills. Language is by far the most important factor to successful employment. It is important to develop new instruction paths and materials that utilize ICT and fill better student’s needs. This project is a cross-border project that is aiming to deliver a common shared best practices and quality standards for the wider cross-border area within the context of health care and cleaning services. This project is linked with Interreg Central Baltic programme, as well as to healthcare and the cleaning services with the objective to align vocational education curricula between both sectors in Finland and Estonia. Health care and hygienic cleaning together is one of the highest topic in the whole world and its importance is increasing because of Ebola-type infections. We can use digital network solutions for create more skills to avoid global penetration of these diseasis.

Achievements (EN):

Aligned curriculum and training material about skills of cleaning service and health care services in Estonia and Finland: The SAFHY project compared and aligned two vocational education and training curricula from the hygiene point of view. In the field of cleaning services, two modules of the curriculum for Cleaning supervisor in Estonia were aligned with the modules of study programme Specialization in Cleaning Service /Site Facilities Operative in Finland. To align the hygiene aspects in nursing and health care curricula in both countries, selected modules concerning care procedures in the curriculum of Care worker (EST) were aligned with the modules in curriculum for Practical nurse (FIN). Project developed significant amount of digital learning materials for cleaning and healthcare specialities on the subject of hygiene. Learning materials can be used in Finnish, Estonian, English and Russian in order to support the learning of different groups of students. Digital learning materials include 21 topics for the health care sector, 27 topics for the cleaning sector, 5900 photos, 120 videos in 4 languages. The material contains text, learning tests, videos, photos and a professional vocabulary. Digital learning material was developed for VET institutions and work places.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.2. Increased share of aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project aligns and enriches two curriculas and produces cross-border multilingual digital Learning material for students both in Cleaning services and Health care. Curriculas are aligned from the hygiene point of view to create training material for skills development related to hygiene. Following modules are aligned:Care worker (EST): Care worker activities (20 ECVET) and Practical training (30 ECVET)Practical Nurse (FIN): Nursing and care (20%) and Specialization in Nursing and care: Clinical Nursing care (20%)Cleaner-Supervisor, EQF level 4 (EST): Cleaning and tidying up (40 ECVET) and Basic Cleaning (6 ECVET)Vocational Qualification in Household and Cleaning (FIN): Maintenance Cleaning (20%) and Specialisation in cleaning services: Basic cleaning (20%)Digital learning material improves students’ hygiene skills and safer environments as well as language skills. It also improves competencies to enter the profession. Competent professionals improve the quality of services, client satisfaction, orientation for the new staff and international co-operation.The concrete result is a digital eLearning platform and training content for two sectors in platform. The content is result of wide collaboration of Estonian and Finnish vocational education and training as well as working life. Digital Learning material is expected to increase and spread widely to vocational education and working life giving multilingual support for learners and teachers and even more for working leaders and workers. Digital material enables lifelong learning by increasing accessibility to learn more and develop skills. The project supports ICT techniques’ development and also those technologies using learning activities. Moreover, the costs of digital learning material are less than conventional materials'' costs.Development of working and language skills and also those better matching working opportunities have strong impact on increasing social inclusion.

Thematic information

Health and social services ICT and digital society Education and training

Specific Objective: More aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Keski-Uudenmaan koulutuskuntayhtymä

Department: Keuda Adult Education

Address: Sibeliuksenväylä 55A, 4400 Järvenpää, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.keuda.fi

Total budget: EUR 479 999.99

ERDF budget: EUR 359 999.99

Järvamaa Kutsehariduskeskus

Name: Järvamaa Kutsehariduskeskus

Department: Development Office

Address: Tallinna 46, 72720 Paide, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.jkhk.ee

Total budget: EUR 108 333.00

ERDF budget: EUR 92 083.05

Tartu Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Name: Tartu Tervishoiu Kõrgkool

Department: Vocational Education

Address: Nooruse 5, 50411 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.nooruse.ee/eng/homepage/

Total budget: EUR 108 332.99

ERDF budget: EUR 92 083.04

OÜ Puhastusekspert

Name: OÜ Puhastusekspert

Address: P.O.Box 18, 46202 Väike-Maarja, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.puhastusekspert.ee

Total budget: EUR 108 332.98

ERDF budget: EUR 92 083.03

Osuuskunta Digital Robot Finland

Name: Osuuskunta Digital Robot Finland

Department: Kouvola team in Kymenlaakso and also Orivesi team in Pirkanmaa

Address: Kanervistontie 46, 45200 Kouvola, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.digiratu.net

Total budget: EUR 380 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 285 000.00

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Järva County Vocational Training Centre

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Tartu Health Care College

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OÜ Puhastusekspert

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Co-operative Digital Robot

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Keuda Group

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Summary

Project name (EN): Safety and Hygiene - safer environment

Project acronym: SAFHY

Project start date: 2015-09-01

Project end date: 2017-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 184 998.96

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 921 249.12

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 921 249.12.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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