ArctiChildren InNet

Empowering School e-Health Model in the Barents Region

Duration		01.09.2011 - 31.12.2012
Funding and budget		Kolartic ENPI 1 731 000 Eur
Position in the project		Partner
Overall objective		The project produces through international collaboration a new, innovative learning environment or website which exploits social media to support school's health communications. It promotes school-aged children's health and well-being and development of new working methods in health and social care and in education.
Project purpose		Project brings together such universities and higher education organizations from different countries in the northern area, that have successfully applied different social media platforms to the school's health communications and / or b) a variety of school health communications, content and practices have been successfully applied to various social media platforms. To find out (training, survey, exchange of good practices), a) the various social media platforms and b) the various health communication content and practices applied in the social media. New practices of health communications at the classroom and between experts and students and school and home.
Deliverables		Create an international university network for exchange of good practices Study various possibilities and good practices of exploiting social media to support school's health communications Produce a new learning environment or website which exploits social media to support school's health communications
Lead partner		Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Partners		University of Lapland (Finland), Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Murmansk State Humanities University (Russia), Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), Northern (Arctic) Federal University (Russia), Finnmark University College (Norway)
Contact		Airi Paloste +358 40 741 2905