Project Summary

Considering the increasing percentage of the geriatric population in both Turkey and EU, problems and life conditions of the geriatric population is an important issue for community and family life. Families need to be informed and help from social workers or medicals. Because of the increasing of dependence and illness at geriatric period, care of the elderly poeople becomes more difficult. Not only physically both also psychologically, elderly people need support.So, there should be skilled person who attend service-training about elderly people. Here, the phases of work organization are very often associated with training. This gives a possibility for the recognition of acquired through informal and non formal learning and skills through final competences.The opportunity is to link with the acquisition of skills on the way of formal learning in vocational training. This project aims to transfer the EU project ESO-CERT developed method for ECVET assessment of vocational skills developed and be used anywhere in Europe. The result of the project is to develop and test a modular system of credits in vocational training at elderly care action-oriented skills in care sector.

Project duration: 01.12.2013 - 30.11.2015

Partnership:

• Governorship of Istanbul (TR) (COORDINATOR) (Turkey)
• Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies (Turkey)
• Istanbul Aydin University (Turkey)
• ANAPTYXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS – AKETH (Greece)
• IBS-CEMES Institut GmbH (Germany)
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Switzerland)
• Institute for Technology and Quality - ISQ (Portugal)
• Institute for Training of Personnel in International Organizations–ITPIO (Bulgaria)