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The Skillful Tutors of Adults’ and Aging Population’s Digital Competences to Lapland (OdigO) Project

Funding

The project is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Northern Ostrobothnia’s Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY) (2021–2023).

Project partners

OdigO-project is coordinated by the University of Lapland, Finland, and implemented in cooperation with the Lapland University of Applied Sciences and many stakeholders and experts who work with and for adults and aging populations in the public sector, non-governmental organizations, and adult education organizations.

Description

The aim of this project is to find solutions to digital exclusion and its threats by developing the competencies of service providers to guide and support customers’ digital skills. The project also aims to increase Lapland residents’ awareness of supporting the digital skills of adults and aging populations. The project sets out three measures to achieve its goals: 

  1. Design, pilot, and further develop an online study module—jointly implemented with the University of Lapland and the Lapland University of Applied Sciences—that focuses on guidance for developing the digital skills of adults and aging populations (5 credits); 
  2. Design and implement a series of webinars and video briefings for the general public audience and educational, social, health, and cultural professionals who work with adults and aging populations; and 
  3. Design and implement a series of webinars for the teaching staff of the Lapland University Consortium (LUC), the topic of which is the pedagogically appropriate implementation of distance learning as a multi-professional inter-university and working life co-operation.

At the University of Lapland, the online study module is integrated into teachers’ pedagogical studies and the continuing education training offer, which university students in the field of education can also participate in. At the Lapland University of Applied Sciences, the online study module is being implemented as part of social and healthcare profiling and optional studies and as part of practical training in elderly care education. After the OdigO project has been implemented, the online study module that has been developed will become part of the partners’ curricula. The series of webinars and videos, including webinars for teaching staff, will not be implemented after the OdigO project has been completed, but will remain available on the Lapland University Consortium’s Intra after the end of the project.

Photo: Marko Junttila/IkäihMe Project
Photo: Marko Junttila/IkäihMe Project

Presentations and media visibility in English

Most of the video briefings produced in the project are translated into English, like the one below (click on the image to see the full video). More videos can be found in the tab "Hankkeessa tuotettu videotietoiskusarja".

Cooperation with the European Seniors' Union (ESU)

The OdigO project has been discussed at the "ESU Northern and Baltic Countries Regional Conference: Life with Covid-19" conference organized in Tallinn in May 2022. The conference was organized by European Seniors' Union (ESU), which is the largest political seniors’ organisation in Europe, member association of the European People’s Party (EPP) and is represented in 27 states with 34 organisations and about 1.269.000 members. More information: ESU - European Seniors' Union - Home (esu-epp.eu)

Also read the OdigO-project contribution in An Hermans' publication: Hermans, A. (2022). Project OdigO: Osaavia aikuisten ja ikääntyvien digitaitojen ohjaajia Lappiin. In The Digital Era? Also My Era!
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Odigo, Yhteistyö European Seniors' Unionin (ESU) kanssa

Contact information

Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen
Professor, Principal Investigator
University of Lapland
Faculty of Education
+358 40 484 4240

firstname.surname@ulapland.fi
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Susanna Rivinen
University Lecturer, Project Manager
University of Lapland
Faculty of Education
Media Education Hub
+358 40 484 4355

firstname.surname@ulapland.fi
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