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On the 24th March 2022, the Maltese partner MECB an event to promote Health4.0 through the digi4HEALTH Multiplier Event. To attract relevant stakeholders, this event was organized with the Malta Health Sciences Association and attracted healthcare professionals, students, and representatives from the education sector. During the event, the participants had the chance of trying various project results [DETAILS]

INHWE, one of Digi4H's partner organized the final dissemination conference at The European University of Cyprus in Nicosia on Friday 18th March 2022. This event was attended by a number of health related stakeholders including educators, health workers as well as learners/students.

The Digi4H partners attended the final project meeting in Nicosia Cyprus. During this event, the partners re-visited the main project goals, reviewed and approved the final project results achieved and planned work related to finalize dissemination and project reporting. The meeting was hosted by INHWE.

On the 15th of March 2022, Kaunas Science and Technology Park organized the digi4HEALTH Multiplier Event. This event attracted healthcare professionals, students, representatives of education sector. The event also included a discussion on the latest technologies being developed by business, how they are being applied in the healthcare sector. [DETAILS]

On the 25th of February 2022, the Romanian partner UPB CAMIS had the pleasure to present the final results of the Erasmus+ funded project DIGI4HEALTH. During this event, they provided the participants with background to how Industry 4.0 technologies are being applied to the health sector and also provided demonstrations of the Digi4H project results. [DETAILS]

After months of working remotely due to the COVID pandemic, in November, the Digi4H partners managed to have a physical meeting in Valencia hosted by K-Veloce. During the meeting, the partners worked on O5/Toolkit as well as on revising the other IOs where necessary.

Jonathan C. BORG who is coordinating the Erasmus+ Project presented the Digi4H project to participants attending a transnational meeting of the TICTAC Erasmus+ project held in Seville, Spain.

Jonathan C. BORG who is coordinating the Erasmus+ Project presented the Digi4H project to participants attending a transnational meeting of a different Erasmus+ project held in Bucharest, Romania.

Jonathan C. BORG who is coordinating the Erasmus+ Project presented the Digi4H project to participants of the online 'International Network for Health Workforce Education' Conference ' hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Video of the presentation available here

In spite of on-going pandemic challenges, the Digi4H partners keep on pushing ahead with project work using a positive attitude . This online meeting enabled the Digi4H partners to plan work mostly related to the e-Learning Management System and also the digital Toolkit. Discussions on contingencies including a project extension were discussed.

The Digi4H partners are generating a set of 3D printed anatomical models based on open source 3D STL models to demonstrate to project target group representatives, how such digital technology can enhance VET learning in the health sector. 3D printing is increasingly becoming an affordable technology that can be exploited by training institutions.

With on-going difficulties to safe travelling, the Digi4H partners decided to replace the planned 3rd meeting intended to take place in Larisa Greece, with a virtual meeting. This online meeting ensured that Digi4H partners kept on working on tasks within the project all aimed at delivering knowledge on digital skills and technologies for health sector workers. During this virtual meeting attended by all partner organisations, a number of actions concerning output O3 (training material) and O4 (e-Learning Management System) were agreed. Further on-going work on ouput O2 related to the development of Virtual Reality cases was also discussed.

On 7th July 2020, INHWE Director, David Smith, presented the Digi4Health project and it objectives at the Lead Summer School run by EIT Health, Semmelweis University (Hungary) and IESE Business School (Spain). The Summer School aimed to generate awareness raising and knowledge sharing about changes of healthcare systems in the digital age. David’s presentation, title “Digi4Health Toolkit: what are the main digital competencies?” was well received by over 50 current health professionals and students from cross Europe and beyond.

The Digi4H Internal Peer Review Committee has approved that the O1 An Innovative VET Curriculum on Heath4.0 and its Underlying Digital Technologies be made publicly available. This output provides details of the data collected from focus groups organized in the partner countries as well as presents the curriculum designed complete with implementation details. This output can be downloaded from the 'Results' menu of this webpage.

Due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) virus, the 2nd partners meeting planned to be held in Kaunas was replaced by a virtual online meeting. This online meeting ensured that Digi4H partners kept on working on tasks within the project all aimed at delivering knowledge on digital skills and technologies for health sector workers. This is the consortium's contribution towards Health4.0, a topic that has increasingly become so important in the fight against COVID-19. During the meeting, a number of actions concerning case-studies as well as the course ware were agreed.

The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has shaken the globe. This disruption in our life resulted in a number of innovative ways of how digital technologies such as drones, 3D-printing, smartphones and robots have been used in the fight against COVID-19. Read more in this article.

The Digi4Health consortium organized a focus group meeting with a number of health sector stakeholders in Malta. These included a nurse, a speech therapist, a VET nursing trainer, a Radiographer/trainer, a podiatrist, and a mid-wife.

The Digi4Health project partners issue a Press Release about the launch of the project and also its webpage.

The Digi4Health project partners met for the first time as a consortium on Thursday 31st October 2019 in Bugibba Malta. The meeting was attended by representatives from all partner organisations. During the meting, the proejct deliverables and Gantt Chart were re-visisted. In addtion a number of tasks for the next six months have been planned,

The kick-off meeting of the Digi4Health project is being held in Malta on 31st October 2019. The meeting will be hosted by the coordinating organisation MECB. The partners will be meeting to commence the work outlined in the Erasmus+ proposal.

The Digi4Health project, short for A Digital VET Toolkit for Promoting the 4th Industrial Revolution in the European Health Sector has officially started on 2nd October 2017. The project, funded under Eramsus+ through Malta's National Agency EUPA will run for 24 months up to 1st October 2019. Digi4Health involves 6 partners coming from Greece, Lithuania, Malta, Romania & Spain.