Each year 15 million babies are born prematurely and many suffer from respiratory failure due to immaturity of the lung and lack of control of breathing. Although respiratory support, especially mechanical ventilation, can improve their survival, it also causes severe injury to the vulnerable lung resulting in severe and chronic pulmonary morbidity lasting in to adulthood. Heterogeneity of lung aeration, resulting in areas of lung over inflation and lung collapse, plays a crucial part in the risk of mortality and morbidity due to respiratory failure. This distribution of lung aeration cannot be detected by currently available bedside monitoring tools and imaging methods. Thus, an imaging technique for continuous non-invasive bedside monitoring of infants lung function is urgently needed. In order to address this, CRADL will use EIT technology to establish a monitoring tool for interventions in the paediatric population. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a non-radiative, inexpensive technique that can facilitate real time dynamic monitoring of lung aeration, and recent studies have shown that it is effective in monitoring aeration in preterm babies. CRADL will show how EIT can provide new cost effective, easy to use, respiratory management tools and clinical protocols that can be universally adopted to reduce deaths and disability in preterm babies by delivering a tool that provides continuous, non-invasive, radiation free, bedside information on regional lung aeration and ventilation during daily clinical care of (preterm) infants and children with respiratory failure. CRADL will also assess the effectiveness, efficacy and safety of such a system in guiding respiratory management and supportive care of the most common causes of paediatric respiratory failure (respiratory distress syndrome, bronchiolitis and acute respiratory distress syndrome), with the final goal of reducing short and long term adverse effects of disease and its treatment in this populat

The increasing demand for healthcare services, driven by demographic shifts throughout Europe will increase the number of jobs and the required skills of professionals in the health sector. Recently the need for digital skills for health care professionals is acknowledged at EU level. Digi4He will provide a platform for digital skills training in the health care sector. EU Educational Institutes, VETs, Health Care Associations and relevant EU Enterprises will exchange skills, experience and accessibility to be embodied in a single high quality training framework improving Digital Skill training all over European Countries. At first the content will be defined by determining the digital skills every health professional must possess to use eHealth solutions to their full potential after the verification of the specific educational needs of Doctors, Operators and professionals of digital technology of medical imaging equipment. Then partners will develop user-adapted training modules on the specific context concerning digital image processing and administration, including recent changes on pedagogical landscape of Health care distance learning with the use of innovative Vocational Open Online Courses (VOOCs) for Digital Skills on health domain topics like medical imaging. After the evaluation of the approach’s functionality through the pilot study over 4 EU countries and adjustment of the educational framework that finally will be accredited using the appropriate EU directives and Agencies of training accreditation, (with SLP Certificates, nano-degrees, badges), improving quality of national and European Education on digital technologies in health sector. Finally Digi4He will provide the developed open-access training framework additionally with its technical support to the community of Health care professionals of EU. The partnership will work towards the educational framework to be utilized and integrated in national and EU level VET training systems on health.