The European Commission Green Paper on Ageing and the Health Promoting Schools (HPS) paradigm can be connected through several key objectives, as both aim to promote health and wellbeing across the lifespan, with a particular focus on fostering positive habits from a young age that can support active healthy ageing. This book is an output of the ERASMUS+ School for Health in Europe for Active and Healthy Ageing...
Our society is digitising at a rapid pace. We live in a digital world, where every aspect of our lives is heavily influenced by digitalisation. People use more and more digital devices and spend more and more of their time on the internet. Not only communication and social contacts between people are digitising; digitalisation also influences the way we work and learn, how we participate in politics and the eco...
“Rural eHealth facilitators” (REACT) is an Erasmus+ project implemented in four Euro-pean countries from 2022-2025. The REACT project has tested the involvement of eHealth facilitators in strengthening the digital inclusion of vulnerable groups across four different welfare state contexts. Drawing on the lessons learned from the project, this report presents a strategic development concept along with recommenda...
The REACT project aims to address directly the first horizontal priority, “Addressing digital transformation through the development of readiness, resilience and capacity”, with the development of the Rural eHealth facilitators concept. For this, the project provides the tools to help vulnerable and older citizens in rural areas develop digital capacities to become included in eHealth offerings. Indeed, the und...
Background: Life Skills have been central to Health Promotion interventions and programmes with children and adolescents for over 40 years. School is a strategic setting for Life Skills education. Recently, policy-and decision-makers have focused on Life Skills development for youth. Research on Life Skills has gained momentum. Different terms are used to discuss and define Life Skills. Research identifies a la...