Despite the rapid change in children’s ecology and the rapid advance of technology, research on the impact of digital technologies on children’s communication and language development is still scarce and highly fragmented with no unitary approach across disciplines. The central scientific goal of e-LADDA is to establish whether the new and quite intuitive interactions afforded by digital tools impact on young children’s language development and language outcomes in a positive or adverse way, and respond to the need to train new brands of interdisciplinary researchers to support this scientific goal. We further aim to establish exactly what factors in both the technology itself and the communication channel advance language learning and growth or may impede it. This goal will be pursued from a highly interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial perspective bridging between research disciplines and methodologies and in collaboration with industry and the non-academic public sector. The main objectives of e-LADDA are 1) to provide a platform for the training of the next generation of scientists drawing for the first time on interdisciplinary perspectives from basic, applied and translational research on language learning in the digital age, 2) to provide a unified research approach to the benefits and drawbacks of digital technologies for young childrens’ language learning, 3) transform and develop new digital solutions that benefit learners, and 4) to provide guidance to policy makers, educators, practitioners and families in how emerging digital environments should be navigated, regulated and transformed. The ESRs will benefit from interdisciplinary training through substantial mobility, and direct collaboration across a complementary team of beneficiaries and partners at the forefront of interdisciplinary approaches to digital technology and language learning.

The Digital solutions for trainers and educators /DIGISOL project addresses the vocational and adult education sectors and the professional individual needs of educators and trainers who are working mostly with the adult learners.The objective of the project is to develop a Curriculum for the training course on the Digital solutions for trainers and educators in the VET and adult education sectors aiming at increasing their digital competences and skills by learning the most demanded and broadly used digital tools in each of the partner organisation countries.There will be 3 Transnational meetings organized in the framework of the project :- Kick-off meeting in Latvia, January 2020 : 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participating.- Intermediate evaluation meeting Germany, August 2020: 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participating.- Final recap’ meeting Estonia, October 2021 : 8 – 10 teachers/staff members participatingIn total there will be up to 40 teachers/staff members in total taking part in the Transnational meetings. 36 teachers and staff members of partner institutions will be involved in the short-term joint staff training events that will be held in:- Estonia in May 2020 .- Latvia in November 2020 - Germany in March 2021.The main outcomes of the project related activities are expected as follows : - trainers and educators know how to use different digital learning tools; - trainers and adult learners have the possibility to have the blended learning approach (face-to-face + online);- they can choose the better digital learning solution for their individual needs;- survey on the specific digital needs of trainers in each partner institution country (100 trainers and 100 adult learners will participate from each country, in total 800 people involved) and its analysis.- Curriculum for the online training course on the Digital solutions for trainers and educators (DIGISOL) in the VET and adult education sectors. - Pilote of the DIGISOL Course for 2 groups of 12 learners in each partner organization country (96 people in total)- free access to the DIGISOL course through a Moodle platform for everyone.- online testing option and online certificate' availability certifying the acquired digital competence / skills upon the test successful completion.- 3 Multiplier events - open seminar / conference - 1 in each partner institution country, 180 people in total (+ the organizers' team) will be taken part in these events.In labor market perspective, the open access to the the DIGISOL Course modules will increase professional qualifications of VET educators and adult education trainers and help them meet the education sector rapidly digitizing requirements and needs.The course will contain an innovative approach, methodology, schedule of the course, lesson outlines and activities to be ready for the use of trainer and educators from the VET and adult education sectors, but also educators or teachers from every other educational sector. .The course would contain 3 learning modules with different topics. The 3 main modules are :1)Cyber Security & Digitization2) Webinars and other Communication Tools3)Files & Documents Sharing ToolsThe choice of the topics for the each module will be based on the results of the survey - the Assessment Questionnaire on the specific digital needs of VET trainers led in each partner institution country before designing the Curriculum of the Course. The Curriculum will be drawn after the analysis of the results of the Assessment Questionnaire and will be fully based on them.The curriculum and the course will be designed in order to improve EU countries trainers’ and educators’ digital skills and knowledge of different digital solutions used in the new era of teaching / learning, to learn how to use and apply the Information and Communication Technologies, to better understand the concept of the digitization and to apply it in accordance to their competence arias.

"Health Information Systems training and certification implementation for higher education (HIS4HE) project addresses the education and labour market needs of medicine students in higher education schools, users of patient data systems, such as doctors, nurses and healthcare support staff, etc. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) nowadays are important in all workplaces. TThe number of actions have been taken by European Commission (EC) in order to help people to acquire digital knowledge and skills – especially in the workplace. Online courses together with certification can help get right competences for medical students and medical staff.According to the “Digital Agenda for Europe” (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A52010DC0245R%2801%29) one of the action areas is the sustainable healthcare and ICT-based support for dignified and independent living. It is recognized, that “the deployment of eHealth technologies in Europe can improve the quality of care, reduce medical costs and foster independent living, including in remote places. An essential condition for success is that these technologies incorporate the right of individuals to have their personal health information safely stored within a healthcare system accessible online. To exploit the full potential of new eHealth services, the EU needs to remove legal and organizational barriers, particularly those to pan-European interoperability, and strengthen cooperation among Member States.”The project aims to use the knowledge standard applicable in Europe (the ECDL Health, specifically), which defines the HIS curriculum content as well as sets the required level of knowledge and helps ensure module studies/training quality. At the same, implemented standard would help to recognize the existing qualifications of HIS professionals in Latvia and Lithuania internationally. The ECDL HIS certification modules and tools in Lithuania and Latvia are implemented and run by ITI and LIKTA respectively.The project partners designed, developed and implemented an up-to-date curriculum, training materials, blended learning environment, and certification system „Health Information Systems Usage”.The main intellectual outputs are related to the health information systems and they include:Country analysis report and recommendationsSyllabus, syllabus guide and study moduleCourseware for e-course Assessment and certification toolsGood practice guideIn order to introduce project results for target groups two multiplier events were organised in partners’ countries: Latvia and Lithuania.There are identified main target groups which are impacted by the project: 1)Higher education students and teachers (study programs related with usage of health information systems)2)Medical staff using health information systemsThis target group will benefit from the project by participating in training and certification, which will improve their knowledge and competencies in labor market.Project results can also be used by other education organizations which are responsible for medical staff preparation or skills upgrade and raising of qualification like colleges VET schools, adult education centres, and etc. The partnership is composed by 5 members including coordinator Kaunas University of Technology; all active in the fields of ICT related training and program development, education and ICT skills certification.Coordinator Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) having hude experience scientific researces, training material developement, online trainings and etc.Public institution Information Technologies Institute- has strong experience in IT training/testing courseware design and development.LIKTA is the official partner of ECDL in Lithuania.DLGI-It is an accreditation agency for IT-certification, which has successfully introduced an European IT certification standard by implementing ECDL, the European Computer Driving Licence, in Germany. DGLI help create project results, consult, shares experience and expertise project results.LIKTA-has a wide experience in designing ICT based training programs for adult learners. LIKTA is the official partner of ECDL in Latvia.All learning products are implemented for partners in Latvia and Lithuania activities, and offered to national higher education/VET institutions and presented for other European countries educators by ECDL products marketing line.All learning products were tested by and improved after analysis of pilot studies/training and testing/certification in Lithuania and Latvia. All learning products are presented to national higher education and VET institutions, and encouraged to use in health studies curricula. Good practice guide will help by implementing whole training course. EN versions will be used for dissemination in other European countries as ""demo"" and further localization base.All project results are available at the project website."