Skills4 Health Literacy (Skills4HL)

 SKILLS4HL aims to meet the needs of higher education institutions in training their future and current health and social care professionals, through digital education technologies, to promote health literacy capacity-building when supporting persons at risk of dementia to deliver relevant and personalized interventions.

Project objectives:

• To improve the understanding of the needed specific knowledge, skills and abilities that the health and social care sectors demand from their professionals to promote and/or improve health literacy when supporting persons at risk of dementia. 
• To strengthen the strategic and structured cooperation of higher education institutions partners in health literacy education to develop a learning-outcomes-oriented curriculum and educational contents. 
• To increase the use of innovative and accessible digital technologies, to generate open education resources for skills development about health literacy of health and social professionals and build digital pedagogy capacities of lecturers. 

Organisations participating in the project are

• Karolinska Institutet (coordinator), Sweden
• Seinäjoen Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy, Finland
• Professionshojskolen University College Nordjylland, Denmark
• Universitetet i Tromsoe - Norges Arktiske Universitet, Norway
• Global Health Literacy Academy, Denmark

Project webpage

Erasmus+ EU Programme for education, training, youth and sport, Call 2021, Action Type KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education