<< Background >>Taking into account the proposal for a Council Recommendation on Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Competitiveness, Social Equity and Resilience and the updated European Skills Agenda, the Osnabrück Declaration focuses on four key areas for the years 2021 to 2025: 1.Resilience and excellence through quality, inclusive and flexible VET 2.Creating a new culture for lifelong learning - relevance of continuing education and digitalisation 3.Sustainability - a green link to VET 4.European education and training area and international vocational education and training With this project we will contribute to these objectives to a greater or lesser extent. Our two focuses within our project are mainly on 1 and 2. Through this project we want to upscale the digital skills of teachers and trainers in both the formal and non-formal sector so that they are able to develop qualittative interactive online teaching modules that contribute to a culture of lifelong learning. The developed modules focus on the theme of dementia in society. By doing so, we want to improve the quality of the existing care training programmes in the formal VET and the training programmes in the non-formal sector and adapt them to the increasing demand from society for quality education on this theme. This is necessary in order to detect the condition in people at an early stage and to provide them with high-quality care and support.On its website, the WHO identifies a lack of awareness and knowledge about dementia, which is widespread in many countries. The partners within this project consortium fully endorse this observation. The prevalence of dementia is escalating world-wide and knowledge deficits remain a barrier to community inclusiveness and quality care. The need for quality, comprehensive education has been identified as a key priority for global action plans on dementia. In the fight against Alzheimer's disease, early recognition of this condition is extremely important. The online material we are developing is focused on the one hand on recognising the disorder and experiencing it, and on the other hand on the care that people with dementia need in their day-to-day lives.<< Objectives >>With the implementation of this project, we want to offer 24 expert teachers/trainers a professionalisation path to further develop their digital skills so that they are able to develop high-quality online interactive modules. This should enable them to adapt existing training programmes and care courses in both the non-formal and formal sector to the need for lifelong learning that is independent of time and place. With the actual modules that will be developed through the implementation of this project, we are primarily aiming at family caregivers (20 persons) in the home environment of and the caregivers in training (80 persons) for the care institution for people with dementia. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, to give these target groups a better understanding of the manifestation of dementia so that they can cope better with this condition and be better prepared and, on the other hand, to provide them with insights into the kind of care, guidance and support people with dementia need both in their home environment and in a care facility.<< Implementation >>We will organise two trainings for teachers/trainers (2 groups of 12 persons each) from both the formal and non-formal sector to upscale their digital skills. In this trainings we will use of the TPACK model on the one hand and the ABC design method on the other and The 12 building blocks for effective didactics. These twelve instructional principles have been proven by scientific research as to why they work; in addition to elaborating on these principles, we will also provide participants with examples of how to apply these principles in their daily work as teachers and/or trainers.. TPACK consists of the three knowledge domains Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge and Technological Knowledge. Content Knowledge (CK) includes the central facts, concepts, theories and procedures of a particular subject area, but also knowledge of how the subject area is expanding. Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) includes the way in which pupils learn, their (mis)conceptions, use of learning resources, evaluation of learning, class management, lesson preparation and execution. With the combination of subject knowledge and didactic knowledge, the teacher can help students understand complex concepts. Technological Knowledge (TK) is knowledge of media. The TPACK model was developed by Matthew Koehler and Punya Mishra and describes the knowledge a teacher needs to integrate ICT into his or her teaching. Teaching involves a teacher knowing what needs to be taught (subject content) and how to teach it (subject didactics). In order to use ICT in a meaningful way in education, a teacher must know how the subject content can be made clear and understandable with the help of ICT and which didactics reinforce the learning of certain subjects with the help of ICT. The 'ABC curriculum design'-methodology, developed at University College London, enables didactic teams to design together a first prototype of the course in an interactive way. Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen used this methodology to develop online interactive material and consists of an analysis phase, a design phase and the final design phase.What the teachers/trainers have learned in their training, they will also effectively apply in developing three different high quality interactive online modules that will all be developed around the theme of dementia and evaluated by the end users within the context of this project. The end-users are on the one hand the family caregivers in the home environment of persons with dementia and on the other hand the trainee caregivers who will start working in a care facility for persons with dementia after graduation. This development process of the three modules will be a co-creation between all project partners in this consortium where each will contribute from his/her own expertise the necessary knowledge and skills and network of interested stakeholders to make this process a success.<< Results >>At the end of this project, 24 expert teachers/trainers from the formal and non-formal sector will have upgraded their digital skills. Indirectly, there will be more people involved, because the 24 who are directly involved will spread the word within their own organisation.3 modules will be developed. A first module will deal with the dementia condition: issues such as What is dementia?, What are the symptoms?, Different forms of dementia , Stages of dementia, Observes and understand changing behaviour, Improve day-to-day functioning of people with dementia, Environmental impact on people with dementia, Dealing with changing behaviour, approaches and communication in dementia will be addressed. A second module will deal with the necessary care, support and guidance for people with dementia in their home environment and in a care facility. A final module will be about empowerment; with this module we want to achieve that people with dementia are seen and addressed to their full potential, within the context of this project by their family caregivers and their caregivers but by extension not only in care but also in society. The development of this material will ensure that care training in the formal VET sector and training in the informal sector can respond to the increasing demand for people with prior knowledge of dementia.