Open innovation network and groupware

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The LeHo community is open for everyone
involved in home and hospital education with the
support of ICT
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Did you know that there are hundreds of thousands
of young people across Europe and the rest of the
world with medical needs, and that the majority
recover and go on to lead full and normal
lives?Hospital schools and home tuition
programmes ensurethat students not only keep up
with their education, but that they can go on to
achieve magnificent things.  
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Main project data

• Programme LLP Key3 Multilateral Network
• Runtime January 2014 December 2016
• Coordinator Fondazione Politecnico di Milano
  (ITA)
• Contact person Matteo Uggeri
• Partners
• Università degli Studi di Perugia (ITA)
• Bednet (BE), Staatliche Schule fur Kranke
  Muenchen (GER)
• MMB (GER)
• EDEN (UK)
• Funditec (ES)
• Childrens Hospital School of Leicester (UK)
• Third Country 57357 - Children's Cancer Hospital
  (EG)

External Evaluator Daxa Patel Board of
Experts
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Main project data
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The starting point

• Students in hospital or ill at home face
  isolation and cannot access mainstream education.
• ICT can play a key role in providing better
  communication and mediation of the educational
  processes whilst a student is absent from school
  due to a medical condition.

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The issue of HHE (Home and Hospital Education)

• Providing education to children and youngsters
  with medical or psychological needs a world-wide
  problem
• Every country has its own solution for it.
• ? Need for an international confrontation on this
  subject
• In some countries there are online/digital
  solutions that may help the schools and the
  family to guarantee the right to education also
  to these children.

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Aims of this project

• Outline key educational factors good practices
  needed by ill students
• Explore and design ICT-based solutions which will
  enable children in hospital, in home therapy, or
  who attend school part-time, to access education.
  
• Verify how technology can impact on the
  methodology and pedagogy in Home and Hospital
  Education (HHE).

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Not only for ill people

• Moreover, the initiatives adopted in the HHE,
  which represents an educational extreme
• are designed to be innovative and to improve
  education in difficult contexts.
• ?
• They may also be effectively applied in normal
  didactical situations.

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So, what are our main goals

• Investigate the situation in EU on HHE in terms
  of policies, habits, rules, etc
• Arise awareness around the HHE at many levels
• Create local and international communities on the
  themes of HHE
• Discover, invent and design ways to use ICT to
  support HHE
• Disseminate these innovative use to the wider
  possible community
• Make the project activities sustainable.

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In a word build a network
Main partners (all of us)
Board of Experts
The Evil Coordinator
Associate partners (schools, other networks like
HOPE and HELP, goverment bodies)
All our targets groups

• Main target groups
• teachers
• other personnel/workers
• technicians (IT administrators)
• medical staff (nurses, doctors...)
• others (volunteers, students)
• schools directors and decision makers

• Secondary target
• policy makers
• representative of institutions related to
  education
• parents and parents associations
• supporting institutes providing ICT solutions
• high and higher education students
  representatives
• students with a disability

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Online Hub and Communities

• LeHo is developing an international network for
  Home and Hospital Education (HHE) with the use of
  ICT as enablers.
• The LeHo online hub is open for everybody
  involved and interested in the topic and includes
  resources that are being developed or collected
  by the LeHo team. 

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Online Hub and Communities

• Services and Functions of the National Online
  Communities
• find examples of innovative practices, documents,
  presentations, photos, and videos and share your
  own examples
• read and share recent news
• participate in the forum discussions ask your
  questions, share your experience start your own
  group with friends and colleagues
• find institutions that are active in the field in
  your country.

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Online Hub and Communities
Facebook group
International community
Google drive documents (i.e. Innovative Practices)

• National communities (forums)
• Belgium (FR)
• Belgium (FL)
• Egypt
• Germany
• Italy
• Spain (CA)
• Spain (ES)
• United Kingdom

Online Hub www.lehoproject.eu
Newsletter
Board of Experts One per each country http//www.
lehoproject.eu/en/board-of-experts
Video online webinars Open to anyone
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Lets go a bit deeper
HOW ARE WE GOING TO ACHEIVE THESE GOALS?
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Objectives and targets - 1

• Improving
• the education of the ill child with ICT
• by a connection with his own class/home school
• by a connection to a virtual classroom of ill
  students.
• the profile and competencies of the hospital/home
  teacher in connection with technologies and their
  role.
• the competencies of the workers involved (nurses,
  volunteers, technicians...) with ICT and their
  role.

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Objectives and targets - 2

• Provide helpful ICT solutions in terms of
  information and support to parents and families
  of students with medical needs.
• Raise awareness of the contribution of ICT and
  digital media in support HHE beyond the network
  itself.

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Appointments

• Kick off meeting Milan
• Zagreb EDEN conference, June 2014
• Bucharest HOPE Congress, November 2014 / with the
  Board of Experts
• Barcelona EDEN Conference, June 2015
• alongside HOPE Congress and LeHo final
  conference, Oct 2016 / with the Board of Experts