Boosting health LIteracy for School Students
▶Summary
The BLISS project aims to provide essential tools for analyzing and understanding news and content in the field of health, a crucial aspect of digital health literacy. Through the involvement of t...
▶Objectives
With BLISS we intend to contribute to developing Digital Health Literacy in Europe through targeted training, documentation, and experimentation in the school sector. More specifically, for all target groups, we have already started to generate impact in the following areas: - Increased sense of initiative and participation in digital health - Improved level of competence in the responsible use of digital health services - Multiplication and sharing of learning experiences based on real and positive needs through digital health - Increased motivation to promote and take part in initiatives on health education and digital literacy in general - Improved levels of independence, self-confidence, and autonomous initiative - Improved communication and teamwork skills - Improved psychological health (physical, mental and emotional) - Increased awareness of open-source alternatives in the world of digital health technologies.
▶Activities
The project's work program is designed for the effective achievement of the general and specific objectives and can be conceived as a three-stage pathway that is strongly interconnected: 1: DEFINITION OF THE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH OF THE PROJECT (M1-M7) - PR1 Implementation of the Digital Health@School competency framework (PR1- lead partner EGINA), 2: DEFINING THE INFORMATION AND TRAINING ENVIRONMENT (M5 - M24) - PR2 (digital platform) + PR3 (MOOC- lead partner Cittadinanzattiva). 3: CREATION OF THE TRAINING TOOLKIT AND EXPERIMENTATION (M10-M24) - IO4 The beginning of the third phase in the project ran in parallel with the second phase, specifically the launch of the MOOC. In the last two months of the project (M23-M24), Multiplier events (ME) were organized in each country to disseminate both the project results and the importance of digital health literacy in education; in particular, greater emphasis was placed on the last ME at the international level in Brussels, where the communication campaigns of the winning classes were also presented.
▶Impact
On the level of tangible results, the following has been developed with the BLISS project: - Methodological Framework for Digital Health@School (PR1). This is the first basic digital health competency framework, derived from DigComp 2.2, with usage examples for all five competency areas at the basic level (1-2); - Digital Platform (PR2). This is the training environment in which the 21 digital mentors trained under the project and the more than two hundred teachers and school professionals involved in the pilot phase interacted. Specifically, the platform is the environment that hosts the MOOCs, where the training of teachers takes place and where the learning tools for teachers are provided; it also hosts the training TOOLKIT (PR4) and the communication campaigns created by the students during the piloting phase. In addition, the platform contains OER's (Open Educational Resources), a series of documents including articles, training resources, news, and best practices in digital health education, mapped and collected by partners so that the platform can be used and interacted with by participants. - Design, creation, and testing of the MOOC training course (PR3), lasting a total of 40 hours with teachers