If Turkey and EU is to attract and recruit competitive advantage, innovative and high-tech indigenous IT sectors (data analysing,software design,data tracking etc.) and properly transition into a digital world, youth (as age 18-25 and being digital natives) are great resources that would otherwise fit excellently the IT mindset, skills and attitude needed, based on the environment they have grown up where they are users and consumers of digital media, highly connected in a world of social media, adaptable to constant technological changes and so on. They would play crucial roles in changing the equilibrium skewed towards IT human capital attainment which need is directly related to EU 2020 strategies for smart and sustainable economy and EU Digital Action Plan (2019).The objectives are;-Developing innovative cooperation processes and methodologies (IO1) among youth and IT business sectors by investigating effective, innovative and sectoral national and international cooperation methodologies (ex. qualification recognition, assessment/evaluation of skills, working conditions, development of communication, teamwork etc.)-Collaborating with diverse sectors of IT business industry to cooperate on recruiting youth IT experts in their workforce, aligning youth’s skills and knowledge with IT business industry’s real, current and future needs,-Investing on the benefits that youth can bring into IT business industry including new knowledge, perspectives, fresh ideas, business models, personal skills via creation of IO2 (non-formal and work-based employment trial program) by facilitating built-in, real-life and work-based industrial placements LTT trainings for youth. -Creation of an online skill validation platform (IO3) to enable youth and IT businesses to have various interventions to better assess/evaluate/validate IT skills and act further on preparing themselves for the IT employment opportunities. -Providing non-formal, unstructured and inter-cultural learning and interaction opportunities through the creation of synergies among youth and IT business actors via workshops, discussions, study visits, field trips, group activities,case work,seminars where youth will have the opportunity to discover, analyse and understand values and their implications and build a set of values to guide their lives/careers.The main target groups are youth (age 18-25,mainly undergraduates and unemployed graduates) who are in IT and related areas, youth workers, youth organisations, IT business industries, IT business industries’ personnel including employee representatives, managers, consultants, various stakeholders, local, regional business and youth authorities and public/private employment services.The participants are around 90 youth, 23 youth workers and 14 IT business staff/experts who will take part in the following activities;-Creation of IO1; innovative cooperation processes and methodologies among youth and IT business sectors,-Creation of IO2; non-formal and work-based employment trial program,-Creation of IO3; online skill validation platform, -training 118 people in 5 LTTs, -3 transnational project meetings, -conducting workshops in each partnering country,-a final conference,-extensive dissemination activities.The used methodology is mixed method which consists of qualitative (interviews, observations) and quantitative (questionnaires and surveys) methodologies along with employing data collection analyzing methods based on each intellectual output.The results and impacts include;Non-formal, unstructured, work-based and inter-cultural learning and interaction opportunities through the creation of synergies among youth and IT business actors where youth will have the opportunity to discover, analyse and understand skills and their implications, build a set of values to guide their lives/careers, explore current and future available employment and career opportunities, develop their entrepreneurial skills and presenting their qualifications in commercial ways for recruitment, explore and learn how to better develop innovative cooperation methodologies with IT businesses, learn how to recruit young IT staff in a more professional (via IO3, validation tools) and in more experimental (via IO2, pilot program) formats.IT Businesses, youth workers and various stakeholders will improve their knowledge and experiences in employing IT skilled youth in their workforces, benefits that IT skilled youth would bring into businesses such as new ideas, methods, perspectives, abilities to solve various problems and many more.Regarding to the longer term impacts, we expect many youth and youth organizations to develop mutual and close relationships with IT businesses which may open many new doors for them for employment, developing new business ideas, collaborations, cooperation and many more impacts are foreseen.

Background of the project, The European Commission’s Health initiative has suggested the need ‘to scale-up the use of ICT’ to develop the opportunities that the fast-paced digital interventions present for improving the service qualities that health care organisations and institutions provide. It encourages for innovation, projects to ‘figure out how, when and where ICT can be used effectively’ and activities to support care home staff and patients to increase their digital competence and eventually benefit more from the latest ICT. Our main objective is to overcome care home problems/needs by using ICT to create innovative solutions for care home institutions, including ICT enabled care services, and ICT enabled self-care services for adults who are based in care homes. We propose to create scientific knowledge, methodological framework for ICT implementation in care homes, a care home patient monitoring software prototype and policy recommendations to innovatively contribute on the policies of Turkey and EU countries regarding care home ICT interventions. Our innovative project will work on advanced ICT-enabled care services including digital health (convergence of digital revolutions in care), electronic health (transfer of health resources and care by electronic means), technology enabled care (TEC) services (the use of telehealth, telecare, telemedicine, telecoaching) and wearable devices (sensor applied to the body which converts physiological signals, e.g. heart rate, movement, other physical signals). Evidence of the benefits and potentials of ICT to care sector is promising and extensive where we have planned combining the strengths and knowledge of professional health care experts, care home experts, administrators, academicians, technology experts, private companies, social advocacy groups, local, national and international authorities. Our proposed consortium, led by the coordinator Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University, is cross-disciplinary and multi-dimensional to bring together the strengths and knowledge of adult care home educators, care home staff, subject expert academicians, researchers and ICT company experts in our partner countries. The proposed consortium allows for the project to draw on a blend of skills and experience, and to access opportunities to trial and disseminate the outcomes through a number of learning activities covering adult learners across the EU.The main activities include training adult educators of care homes, ICT experts in health-technology, academics and researchers (76 people in total) in our planned 5 days intensive short-term joint staff trainings in the partner countries. The intellectual outputs that will be produced include O1, mapping the scientific literature, O2, methodological framework for implementation, O3, policy recommendations and O4, creating care home patient monitoring software prototype. The final conference and workshops in each partner country will serve to disseminate project results to a wide range of people and institutions in Turkey and Europe. Dissemination of outputs will take place through presentations, journal articles, publications and website including our intellectual outputs. We will publish and disseminate all our results in Turkish, Italian, Spanish, German and English. We will also share components of our LTT trainings, materials and knowledge exchange in a free to access format for a large number of people to benefit from our outcomes.We will use mixed method research methodology by employing interviews, questionnaires, surveys and scientific reports analysis. Our partners’ subject expert academicians and researchers will lead mixed method research in qualitative and quantitative research formats in collaboration with adult educators/staff of care homes to examine the effectiveness of ICT in care homes, its effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses, methodological components, socio-cultural requirements and so on.The outcomes are expected to provide impacts including; -Adult educators and staff in care homes will improve their ICT knowledge and the quality of care services that they provide. Through working together with ICT experts, academics and subject experts in care home sector, they will develop their cooperation skills, professionalism, knowledge and experiences. -Participants (ICT experts, academics, adult staff) will explore and better understand the need for ICT in care home sector and develop practical skills in using components of ICT for care homes benefits. -Academics and researchers will improve their practical knowledge and experiences in working with care home staff, offering professional guidance on real care home problems that they face today, work together with European partners to extend their scope of knowledge, and apply theoretical knowledge regarding ICT into practice in care homes.-Partners will improve the quality of care home ICT training programs in the field of care sector.