International Project “Safety and hygiene – safer environment, SAFHY”
Safety and Hygiene – safer environment
Project duration: 01.09.2015 – 31.12.2017
Official website: www.sahfy.net
Project partner countries: Eesti, Soome
The main partner: Keuda Group
The project SAFHY aims at developing labor skills of cleaning service and health care services in Estonia and Finland by aligning curricula and training material both for vocational education as well as the labor market. The project promotes learning and professional skills in these two sectors to reduce hygiene risks and infections while increasing safer environments in health care and cleaning services.
Hygiene in health care and hygienic cleaning are highest topics in the whole world and their importance is increasing because of Ebola-type infections. The project promotes using digital network solutions for developing skills and avoiding global diffusion of these diseases. In practice the project improves two curricula and training methods for vocational education. The project also designs and implements pilot education to health care and cleaning services by using digital learning platform.
As a result the project aligns and enriches two curricula and produces cross-border multilingual digital learning material for students both in cleaning services and health care. Digital learning material improves students’ skills considering hygiene and safer work environments as well as language skills. It also improves their competencies to enter the profession of their choice. Digital Learning material gives multilingual support for learners and teachers and even more for working leaders and workers. Development of working and language skills and also those better matching working opportunities have strong impact on increasing social inclusion.
The goals and results of the SAFHY project
The project developed hygiene expertise in the field of nursing care and cleaning services in vocational education and training. The goal was met by comparing and aligning curricula and the skills requirements, and by unifying the teaching, learning material and the implementation of on-the-job training in Estonia and Finland.
Digital teaching material was piloted during the project and VET students especially appreciated the wide video material developed during the project. Hygiene expertise increases the safety of both customers and employees in the workplace. Similar kind of education in vocational education and training increases opportunities for labor mobility between Finland and Estonia.
The project completed a wide, multilingual (Finnish, Estonian, Russian and English) digital teaching material for vocational education and training:
21 topics for nursing education
27 topics for cleaning services sector
learning tests on the topics
5900 photos of the work steps, the materials used, the tools, etc.
120 videos
professional vocabulary
This project is done with 921 249,15 € from the European Regional Development Fund. Total funding for the project is 1 184 999 €.
The project is a joint co-operation venture of:
Keuda Group, Finland
Co-operative Digital Robot, Finland
OÜ Puhastusekspert, Estonia
Tartu Health Care College, Estonia
Järva County Vocational Training Centre, Estonia
SAHFY Project Manager:
Tuija Laine
Keuda Group
Kirkkotie 31, Tuusula; Soome
+358 504 150 859
Tuija.laine@keuda.fi
Puhastusekspert OÜ SAHFY Project Manager:
Maarja Treufeldt
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