Carer+ Digital Competence Framework

Background

Name of your initiative:

Short name (acronym):

Carer+ DCF

Website title and address:

Carer+ Digital Competence Framework

Which organization is submitting this initiative?:

IPERIA L'Institut

Please specify in which regions/provinces:

FRANCE›BASSIN PARISIEN›Basse-Normandie›Orne

City:

Alençon

Where is this organization located?:

France

Please enter the name of the contact person for this initiative:

Gloria Ortiz

Please enter the email of the contact for this initiative:

gloria.ortiz@iperia.eu

Part of larger strategy or programme:

European

If you answered "other", please specify:

Please provide us with more details of this programme or strategy:

The CARER+ consortium is a diverse, motivated group of European organisations that are committed to contributing to The Digital Agenda for Europe, making digital literacy and skills a priority for care workers and caregivers, and to Active Ageing. The consortium is led by IPERIA L’Institut (FR). It is composed by 13 organisations from 8 different EU Member States.

The status of the initiative:

Completed

Please give a summary of your initiative (in English):

The Carer+ Digital Competence Framework was created as an essential instrument to define and categorise the knowledge, skills and competences of a digitally competent care worker, it is based on Domains, Competence Areas, Competences, Examples of Learning Outcomes, and Application Levels.

The geographical scope:

European

Type of initiative:

Public-private-partnership

Environment or setting of the initiative:

Urban

The economic environment or setting of the initiative:

Moderate

The most important source of funding for your initiative:

European funding

If other, please specify your source of funding:

What triggered this initiative?:

The Carer+ DCF was reviewed by a panel of external experts who considered it sound and well-structured. The results from the pilots’ developed in the framework of Carer+ confirmed the relevance of the ICT competences applied to promote and enhanced home care service and active ageing.

Objectives

What are the main objectives of your initiative? Choose a maximum of 3 objectives.:

Community support and health services: increase in client-oriented and -centered made to measure health and social care and services

Please describe any subgoals of your initiative:

The Carer+ DCF was the basis to develop and test a training programme, which enabled to validate the overall hypothesis underlying Carer+ project, consisting on the fact that care workers are the « missing link » between the digital tools and older people.

Target group

Does your initiative target people with a specific impairment or disease?:

How many people have you reached or do you expect to reach with your initiative?:

250 - 1000

Does your initiative target a specific age group?:

Does your initiative target men or women?:

Irrelevant

Approach

Please indicate what best describes your initiative:

Knowledge transfer

What type of intervention strategy is used in your initiative?:

Living lab/pilot

Please indicate the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of your initiative:

Who executes the initiative:

Non-governmental organisation

Primary health care providers›General practitioner

What is the relevant physical scale of your initiative?:

European level

International level

National level

Please indicate how you think your initiative could be scaled up (made to reach more people):

The Carer+ DCF can be widely scaled up by adapting it for the elaboration of training programmes on digital competences for professional care workers

Please indicate the type of stakeholders concerned with your initiative.:

Primary health care providers›General practitioner

Please describe how you think your initiative could be transferred to other regions or contexts:

The Carer+ DCF was elaborated at EU level, with the participation of several partners and experts from all EU in order to be as much generalisable as possible

Is your initiative economically sustainable and does it contribute to economic development?:

The Carer+ DCF can be easily integrated in the already existing training programmes for professional care workers in order to complement it with digital competences

If you selected "other" neighbourhood, please specify::

Impact & outcome

Will you collect or have you collected outcome data for this initiative?:

What do you consider the key success factors of your initiative? If your initiative has not yet started, please indicate what you expect the key success factors to be:

The key success factor was the combination of complementary partners for its elaboration and the validation by external experts also from different EU member states and fields of expertise

What do you consider the main barriers to overcome in your initiative? If your initiative has not yet started, please indicate what you expect the main barriers to be.:

The main barrier can be the complexity and level of detail of the Carer+ DCF, which can require a certain analysis period in order to check its transferability.

What instruments will you use/have used to collect data?:

If you selected "other" instrument to collect data, please specify:

If yes, how will you/have you collected those data?:

Will you collect or have collected socio-economic impact data for this initiative?:

Will or are the collected data in the initiative publicly available?: