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HEART

Healthcare Employee AI and VR-Assisted Resilience Training for Burnout Prevention

HEART – Healthcare Employee AI and VR-Assisted Resilience Training – supports care professionals in elderly and long-term care to recognize and manage stress and burnout early on. At its core is a digital training program that combines Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to strengthen mindfulness, resilience, and self-care in an engaging and effective way.

The immersive learning solution is aimed at care workers, VET learners in healthcare, and educational institutions seeking new, practical approaches to mental well-being in care professions.

What We’re Building

VR-Based Training:
An interactive learning platform featuring guided meditations, mindfulness exercises, and stress management scenarios in realistic virtual environments.
AI-Powered Avatar:
A digital companion that guides users through the training, offers encouragement, and supports implementation in daily routines.
Educational Framework:
A didactic concept for integrating XR technologies into vocational education and health promotion programs.
Pilot Testing:
Real-world testing with care workers and learners in Austria and Germany, providing valuable feedback for refinement.

Project Fact

📅 Duration: 1 February 2025 – 30 April 2026

🌐 Website: www.vr-healthcare.eu

💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/vr-healthcare

Project Partners

Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung (Austria): coordination, educational design
Global Strategy Foundation e.V. (Germany): Technical development, XR integration

EcoInnovate AI+

We empower Vocational Education and Training (VET) with AI-driven Product-to-Service competencies for a sustainable future.

EcoInnovate AI+ is an Erasmus+ project aimed at modernizing vocational education and training (VET) by integrating AI-powered Product-to-Service (P2S) systems. The goal is to equip learners with the skills they need for a sustainable, tech-driven future—including environmental awareness and entrepreneurial thinking.

Key Focus Areas:

Sustainability: Promoting reuse, repair, and recycling in line with circular economy principles.
Competitiveness: Innovative companies need skilled professionals with green and digital expertise.
Skills Development: Learners gain hands-on experience with digital tools, AI, and service-based business models.
Entrepreneurial Thinking: Creativity, innovation, and systems thinking are actively encouraged.

How It Works:

Learners work with interactive EduBots—AI-powered learning assistants—to explore real-world P2S strategies, build problem-solving skills, and develop competencies for the future job market.

Project Duration:

Start: February 1, 2025
End: April 30, 2026

Find us online:

🌐 ecoinnovate.eu
🔗 linkedin.com/company/ecoinnovate-ai

Project Partners:

thecritical (Lithuania) – Coordination, Product-to-Service content, curriculum and training
Hafelekar Consulting (Austria) – AI development for EduBots, methodology, curriculum and training

Guiding Symbols

A new approach to career guidance

The Guiding Symbols project aims to support career counselors in adult education by providing innovative methods for working with individuals facing complex life situations. Through the use of symbol-based tools, personal resources, competencies, and goals can be visualized and structured. The methodology is particularly suitable for adults with limited formal education, language barriers, or lack of access to conventional career guidance services.

Results:

Training for Career Counselors: Development and delivery of a practice-oriented training program for the application of symbol work in counseling settings.
Method Adaptation: Cultural and contextual adaptation of established symbol-based methods from Austria to the French context.
Digital Resources: Creation of digital training materials and tools to support long-term use in career guidance.
Pilot Implementation with Target Groups: Practical testing of the methods with real clients to evaluate usability and effectiveness.
Sustainable Implementation: Establishment of multiplier structures and open access to materials to ensure long-term availability and integration into professional practice.

Duration:

Start date: 1 November 2023
End date: 30 April 2025

Website:

https://guiding-symbols.eu

Project Partners:

SAS Hormé (France) – Project coordination and method piloting
Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH (Austria) – Method transfer and training delivery

Innovators AI-launchpad

Empowering Startups with AI for a Sustainable Future

Imagine a world where artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword, but a powerful tool in the hands of entrepreneurs, driving sustainable innovation and business growth. That’s the vision behind the Innovators’ AI Launchpad, an exciting new project designed to equip startups and young entrepreneurs with the AI skills and tools they need to succeed.

The project aims to support 50 ambitious entrepreneurs from Austria and Slovenia in developing and enhancing their business models using cutting-edge AI technology. By combining hands-on training, interactive AI tools, and a supportive cross-border community, the Innovators’ AI Launchpad is set to make a real impact in the world of sustainable entrepreneurship.

Key Activities

🔍 Developing an AI-powered Business Model Canvas methodology

🔧 Creating user-friendly AI tools for sustainable business planning

📚 Providing blended training and open educational resources on AI and green innovation

Expected Results

✅ 50 startups and young entrepreneurs equipped with practical AI skills for sustainability

✅ A tested and proven AI methodology and toolkit for responsible business model innovation

✅ An active cross-border community of AI innovators in Austria and Slovenia

✅ Freely accessible AI and sustainability resources for wide-reaching impact

Project duration

March 2024 to February 2025

Web

Website: https://ai-startup.eu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/Innovators-AI-launchpad

Project Partners

Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung, AT www.hafelekar.at
We4You, SI https://global-disruption.com/slovensko/

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Flows

Further Learning, Outreach and Working Skills

The FLOWS project aims to create a career guidance framework based on forward thinking and a way of working for guidance practitioners that facilitates quality future focused career plans for job seekers who are already marginalised in the labour market, ensuring their inclusion in a technological and digitalized world of work.

Our main aim is to provide effective career guidance to young people and to assist them in discovering and developing their soft skills in order to ensure their inclusion in the labour market. As a result, we develop project tools and methods centred on the identification of transversal skills that can be used to future-proof the careers of disadvantaged young job seekers and enable sustainable employment, and we implement them with the project’s target group of disadvantaged young job searchers. To achieve this goal, we must build the skills of experts and youth workers in the field through the development of vocational education and training qualifications, which we will do in our project.

Our main results are:

Framework Development: We define key competencies required for a future labour market and elaborate on the employability needs of disadvantaged young job seekers.
Tool Specification and Content: This output will detail the core elements and project methodology to be adapted in light of technological workplace demands, training requirements, and key competencies of young job seekers.
Developing Training module for practitioners and Online Platform: This will enable the project partners to implement training modules with the aim of increasing communication and interpersonal skills and digitalisation skills of young job seekers.
Piloting of the FLOWS approach and Psychometric Evaluation: This step will result in a method for guidance practitioners to facilitate future-focused career plans for young job seekers who are significantly under – represented in the labour market.

Project duration

October 2022 till September 2024

Website

www.flows-project.eu

Project Partners

Çarşamba ISKUR HIZMET MERKEZI MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ (Türkiye)
UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (Romania)
BALLYMUN JOB CENTRE (Ireland)
HAFELEKAR UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG (Austria)
MOZAIK İnsan Kaynakları Geliştirme Derneği (Türkiye)

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Turkish National Agency. Neither the European Union nor Turkish National Agency can be held responsible for them.

Probing our fortune

Career Preparedness and Life Navigation with Folktales

In this project we will use the Folk Tale work method to develop sets of self-help and coaching / training tools for young people and their advisers and coaches to think through their choices and motivation to design their next life and career steps.

Folk tales are a way of narrative therapy. The stories – and the analysis of them – can support learning from the situations portrayed, the behaviour of the characters and the ways of solving problems. Folk tales teach us of trial and error and of not giving up, even when it’s hard. These stories can influence the way we live, and the way we think. Using folk tales from different countries also provides a good opportunity for increasing cultural awareness.

… So we can all become queens and kings of our own lives, and live happily ever after….

The main objectives are to

improve the preparedness of young people for career and life choices by developing their self-reflection, their resilience as well as to encourage them to make active decisions and to take their life and career planning into their own hands;
to increase the acceptance of cultural diversities and to develop positive attitudes towards sustainability.

Main results are:

Framework and Screening Tool on Carrier Preparedness for counsellors
Six Folk Tale Boxes, containing tools for self-help and counsellor work, such as the analysis of the tales, cards on the scenes of the tales and assessment questions for self-help and coaching, instructions for coaching on the specific tales, and also group work schedule and tools to work with the tale in youth groups.
Training curriculum for youth workers and counsellors including modules for young people.

Project duration

March 2022 – September 2024

Web

https://www.youthfolktale.eu

Project partner

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

CareerBOT

Chatbot based Career Guidance

CareerBot partnership seeks to improve Digital Readiness of the Career Guidance sector by implementing CareerBot methodology and tool, facilitating blended guidance sessions and to use customized Labour Market Information (LMI) to empower marginalized job seekers. We want to put Career Guidance Practitioners at the centre and assist them – and their organisations – on the path of digitalisation so that they can advise their clients in the best possible way.

By the help of our methodology, job seekers will be able to gather relevant information before and after personal interviews, so that valuable personal services can be used efficiently. With the “CareerBot project” we propose a pilot that focuses on the role of career guidance, which became more demanding, and must be adapted more rapidly and flexibly to the changing needs of the new world of work.

The CareerBot project includes 4 main project outcomes:

CareerBot Content and Methodology
CareerBot Tool
Blended CareerBot training for Career Guidance Practitioner
Transfer Handbook for Implementation with focus on Organisational Development (OD)

In addition, a training event for Career Guidance Officers will be held in Greece and ten Multiplier Events will be organised towards the end of the project to share the learning and engage with all the relevant stakeholders to make them aware of the new CareerBot tool and its benefits.

Project duration

November 2021 to August 2024

Web

Website: careerbot.eu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/eucareerbot

Project Partners

Digi-Ageing

overcoming loneliness

“Loneliness in old age” is a well-known social phenomenon that still receives too little attention. However, the current pandemic clearly shows us that we need to pay more attention to the issue. Older people are increasingly isolated in this situation:Those in care facilities are secluded for their own protection, others have little contact with friends and family or live entirely on their own. People caring for older people are often overwhelmed by the many safety precautions and challenges in their own daily lives. This is also true for family caregivers.

Since October 2020, the international Digi-Ageing consortium has been working on a comprehensive concept that addresses these challenges and develops appropriate measures to counteract the phenomenon of “loneliness in old age”. One of the main goals is to increase competences in the use of digital tools in the elderly care sector and to create a strong network that develops joint solutions.

What we develop

Research reports on the topic of loneliness in old age
Creation of a network that specifically counteracts this phenomenon
Digital diagnostic tool to be able to recognise “loneliness in old age” in good time
Digital intervention tools for education providers in the field of elderly care, for caregivers, for caring family members and for interested older people themselves
Curriculum for the Digi-Ageing Training Programme for the Care Sector

How we reach caregivers

Within the framework of the Digi-Ageing project, so-called “pilot trainers” are trained to subsequently conduct training sessions with other interested persons from the field of elderly care. These professionals will then implement the Digi-Ageing method in their own institutions and recruit other interested people.

Project duration

October 2020 to July 2023

Web

www.digi-ageing.eu
Facebook: www.facebook.com/digiageing
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/digi-ageing

What We’re Building