Newsletter #3

Health Points: Final Conference

A heart-warming Final Conference on Health Points took place in Budapest, at the 19th of November 2019. The event was organized at a community centre setting and had a nice and easy-going atmosphere.

After a short movement game with the cute Bear Cards – which stole the hearts of our participants – we had an introduction of the project and partners.

It was followed by a keynote speech about the issues young people report to the national youth and child helpline by Ms Orsolya Táler, head of the Kék Vonal Child Crisis Foundation – this presentation was full of interesting data about problems young people face from abuse to self harm, suicide, mental health problems, and how they can be faced.

Then we introduced the final outputs of our project: the game and the online platform, the e-Manual that supports trainers on how to use the platform and the impact of our piloting process and the feedback from participants and trainers.

At the second part of the conference we had discussed the main physical and mental health issues of youth in Europe in small group settings. Participants had the chance to express their own experiences and questions, as well as share ideas of solutions.

Participants’ feedbak was overhelmingly positive. They felt they are greatful for the new tools for their work with young people, they enjoyed meeting us and each other, and also liked very much the place and the atmosphere of the whole event. Some even stayed longer to discuss further cooperation opportunities.

The E-Manual

The e-manual gives guidance on how to use Health Points in education, training and care measures for the health care promotion of young disadvantaged people. In the first part of the manual, professionals can read basic background information about the importance of health literacy for young people and the educational approach Health Points pursues. The second part was dedicated to lead the professionals through the whole programme, present the topics and objectives of each module and discuss how to address the topic with the target group, present related online learning activities available on the Health Points learning platform and further online material helpful for the design of individual learning programmes.

The e-manual is available for download in the results section of the project website: https://healthpoints.eu/results/

Impact

In each country, the Health Points platform was tested with groups of young learners with various disadvantages and disabilities, ranging from learning disabilities, mental health issues to diabetes and other medical conditions. The Health Points games were introduced in different courses that all aimed at empowerment of the youths in some way, health being a crucial overarching aspect of it. Overall, 120 learners and 13 trainers participated in the piloting.

Two main approaches to integrate the platform were taken by the participating trainers:

To pre-select modules to cover
with the group (UK, DK, AT, IT, HU)

To leave it to the interest of participants
which modules to go through (CY, DE)

In all cases the platform activities were accompanied by additional activities and reflections in the classroom.

Both trainers and learners appreciated the Health Points games, enjoyed their use of the platform, and delivered valuable feedback for further improvements. Learning took place on various levels, for both learners and trainers. Increased awareness on health issues and motivation for self-care, but also positive social effects and increase of IT literacy and training competence highlight the success of the Health Points approach.

“After having collected the feedback of the participants and my own experiences during the workshops, I have found that the Health Points games and the related materials are useful and can be adopted in different kinds of learning environment. The format of the Health Points games allows free and easy selection from a wide range of online activities for planning any kind of lessons.”

(Trainer, HU).

Partners

Rinova Limited / United Kingdom

Rinova is an innovative, employee-owned independent social enterprise specialising in the following areas:

Employment;
Skills and Learning;
Arts and Culture;
Social Action and Enterprise.

Rinova supports its clients and partners through a range of services, which operate on a stand-alone or integrated basis, including:

Funding development;
Partnership management;
Learning Design;
Capacity Building and Training;
Promotion, dissemination and quality assurance;
Research and evaluation.

Rinova’s team consists of more than 20 staff and associates with unrivalled experience in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of learning and skills-based social, cultural and economic development programmes.

CESIE/ Italy

CESIE is a non-governmental organisation, established in 2001, inspired by the work and theories of the Italian sociologist Danilo Dolci (1924-1997). CESIE contributes to the active participation of people, civil societies and institutions through the implementation of projects on various thematic areas, towards the promotion of growth and development, always valuing diversity in the respect of ethics and human development.

The organisation is dedicated to the promotion of research and development so as to increase and improve future-oriented innovation processes in educational, social, economic and cultural spheres.

BUPNET / Germany

BUPNET GmbH, founded in 1985, is an adult education provider based in Göttingen, Germany. Its mission is the promotion of innovation in education and training.

BUPNET works both in the vocational training and in the (informal) adult learning sector and is an expert organisation especially at the interface between both educational fields covered by the Erasmus+ Programme and former Lifelong Learning Programme.

BUPNET is one of the founding organisations of REVEAL the Research and Evaluation Group for Validation, Evidencing and Assessing of Informal and Non-formal Learning that developed the unique approach LEVEL5 to validate informal learning.

die Berater / Austria

“die Berater” Unternehmensberatungs GmbH focuses on adult education vocational training and human resources development. Founded in 1998 by Martin Röhsner, die Berater now employs about 350 people in over 30 locations throughout Austria.

Its services are aimed at private individuals, national and international companies and organisations in all sectors and of any size, as well as the public sector, including the Austrian Employment Service (AMS). die Berater are plan, organise and run staff development and education programmes for around 20,000 participants each year. die Berater main aims are to motivate and qualify people to make full use of their potentials in the economy, at the labour market and in their personal lives.

die Berater’s main fields of activities are:

Adult education and vocational training;
Coaching and counselling;
New media;
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR);
Bridges to Europe: EU projects and EU project consultancy.

Contents and methodologies of die Berater training offers include e-learning and are tailor-made according to the needs of die Berater’s customers.

SOSU Ostjylland / Denmark

Sosu Ostjylland is the second largest social and health care college in Denmark. It provides different educational programmes – as well as supplementary training of educated staff members – for social and health care institutions for elderly and disabled people and for hospitals and psychiatry. It also educates staff for childcare institutions.

The college has more than 25 years of experience in training and further education of care staff and since 2007, validation of prior learning has been a part of its activities. It offers special educational introductory programmes for immigrants and refugees.

MMC Management Center / Cyprus

MMC Management Center was founded in 2002. Its main focus is training, personal development, consulting and event organization.

MMC consists of three departments:

Training and Development Department organises in-company and public learning solutions for personnel, middle level management, executives and disadvantaged groups. MMC aims to provide quality learning solutions that will enable our customers to reach business excellence.
Event Management Department organises conferences, exhibitions, business games, public lectures, lifestyle events and other events. Major events include the Annual Conference for Personal Assistants and Executive Secretaries, the annual sales conference and the Manager’s Toolbox.
European Projects Department designs and implements European Projects that evolve around Quality in VET, Adult Learning, VET, Employability and Personal Development.

Rogers Foundation / Hungary

Based on Carl R. Rogers’ thoughts, the Rogers Foundation believes that a person can understand and fulfil him or herself through living, personal experiences and in ‘accepting’ relationships. The Rogers Foundation’s mission is to promote ‘accepting relationships’ to people, and to have people understand and become conscious about its importance. Also the Rogers Foundation would like to understand and prevent all barriers against building up these relationships. For this purpose the Rogers Foundation organise and run educational, experiential activities, as well as organise researches, projects and services.

As a permanent educational institution the Rogers Foundation still maintains the successor of the Rogers Secondary School, the Rogers Academy, where young people looking for an alternative for traditional education can find their place. In the last ten years, the Rogers Foundation have implemented more than 50 educational projects in different areas but with common approach: drama pedagogy, arts therapy, free play, game-based learning, emotional intelligence, systems thinking, leisure time pedagogy, talent development, e-learning, sustainability education, human rights and equal opportunities, person-centred organisational development.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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