EU-project

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

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:

Vol-Pecil Project

(Project number 2023-2-IT02-KA210-ADU-000178036)

Volunteers in Preventing Elderly and Chronical Illness Loneliness

The VOL-PECIL project (VOLunteers in Preventing Elderly and Chronic Illness Loneliness) aims to empower volunteers and staff members in their efforts to alleviate loneliness among elderly and chronically ill individuals. By providing specialized training, resources, and digital tools, the project seeks to enhance the quality of care and support offered to these vulnerable groups.

Results

  • Specialized Training Program: Development of a 16-hour blended learning curriculum tailored for volunteers.
  • Digital Educational Resources: Creation and deployment of user-friendly digital tools to support volunteers.
  • Pilot Training Sessions: Conduct pilot sessions to refine training materials based on feedback.
  • Enhanced Communication and Support: Address communication challenges and provide comprehensive self-help guides.
  • Sustainable Implementation: Ensure long-term availability and accessibility of training materials and resources.

Duration:

  • Start Date: February 1, 2024
  • End Date: January 31, 2025

Website:

https://volpecil-project.eu

Project Partners:

Volontariato in Rete – Federazione Provinciale di Vicenza OdV (Italy)

Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH (Austria)

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.

EDU-Ment

Education in Mental Health for Nurses in Home and Residential Care

EDU-MENT enhances the ability of nursing professionals to early detect and manage mental health issues through a specialized, blended-learning certificate course (5 ECTS credits).

Project Outcomes

  • Analysis of Caregiver Requirements and Needs: Comprehensive analysis of the requirements and needs of nursing professionals for early identification, monitoring, and management of clients with mental health issues.
  • Development and Evaluation of Screening Tools: Development, testing, digitalization, and evaluation of screening tools to identify mental health issues.
  • Development of Competency-Based Training: Creation of a blended-learning training program in mental health specifically designed for nurses in home care and residential facilities.
  • Organizational Development Concept: Development of a concept for the sustainable implementation of digital screening tools in nursing facilities.

Project Duration

October 2023 to September 2026

Project Partners

  • UMIT TIROL (Austria) – Website
  • HAFELEKAR UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG SCHOBER GMBH (Austria) – Website
  • UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS (Cyprus) – Website
  • AGECARE (CYPRUS) LTD (Cyprus) – Website
  • UNIVERZA V MARIBORU (Slovenia) – Website

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.

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

Project Partners

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.

Empowerment for Pandemias

Learning from CoVid19

The project “Empowerment for Pandemias – Learning form CoVid19” started on April 1, 2022. The three years project is funded by the EU program Erasmus+. UMIT TIROL, Austria, is the project coordinator.

The project focuses on the development of a professional education and training program for professionals and decision makers working in Public Health. The aim is to strengthen the individual and organizational resilience in times of crisis. The collected experiences and knowledge around CoVid19 will be incorporated into the training program. It is being implemented jointly with the University of Gloucestershire, the Technical University of Deggendorf, the European Academy of Bolzano, Hafelekar Unternehmensberatung Schober GmbH and the Portuguese partner Immersive Lab Lda.

Based on empirical research around Covid19, the project team will define the required competencies that significantly strengthen individual and organizational resilience, and subsequently operationalize them into innovative learning experiences.

A mix of different learning environments is used for this purpose:

  • With the establishment of an assessment tool, individual and organizational resources can be evaluated.
  • Furthermore, the partners are developing a web-based training, in which micro-learning units enable self-determined learning.
  • These will be supplemented with online seminars and face-to-face units.
  • One focus is the development of simulated crisis case studies, based on real experiences, that will support the participants to learn a more efficient handling of complex problem solving and coping strategies.

Project duration

April 2022 to November 2024

Web

Website: Empower4pandemias

LinkedIn – Empower4pandemias

Projektpartner

UMIT TIROL – PRIVATE UNIVERSITÄT FÜR GESUNDHEITSWISSENSCHAFTEN UND -TECHNOLOGIE GmbH (Austria)

HAFELEKAR UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG SCHOBER GMBH (Austria)

TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE DEGGENDORF (Germany)

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO (Italy)

UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE (United Kingdom)

IMMERSIVE LAB LDA (Portugal) 

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.

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

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.

DigEnYou

Digital entrepreneurship  for Youth

The DigEnYou project aims to upskill youth in the field of digital entrepreneurship by providing a training programme to develop and improve young people’s digital and entrepreneurial skills. The project addresses the following major needs in the field of youth on a global scale: 1) Digital skill upskilling, including digital literacy and readiness; 2) Enhancement of transversal skills for digital business development; and 3) Development of entrepreneurial skills.

Project Target Groups

  • Young people with limited digital skills and competencies, as well as those looking for opportunities for entrepreneurial learning and education.
  • The actors in digital youth work.

To meet these needs and provide a comprehensive training programme to young people interested in starting a digitally oriented business, the following outputs will be created:

  • Methodological Framework and Digital Market Skills Ecosystem: In the foundation phase of the project, a desk research and study circle will be conducted to define a Methodological Framework and Digital Market Skills.
  • DigEnYou curriculum and model: All partner countries will collaborate to develop curriculum outlines and DigEnYou course content.
  • DigEnYou methodology and piloting: is based on testing a training model in terms of objectives, recruitment and learning process, content, schedule, and timing.
  • DigEnYou Learning Platform: This project milestone aims to create an online platform that will include the above-mentioned results and assist young people and youth workers in improving their skills.

Project duration

September 2022 till August 2024

Web

coming soon

Project Partners

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.

DiBIK

Digital consulting process for innovation in micro-enterprises – digital business models rethought!

Small businesses and service providers across Europe in particular face the challenge of reinventing themselves again and again. Innovations are in demand and ensure the survival of small businesses especially in times of a pandemic. In order not to be pushed out of the market and to remain competitive in the long term, the business model should be digitally rethought.

For this purpose, an explanatory video, a customised advisory process and accompanying webinars on process management and innovation were developed.

Our target group is micro-entrepreneurs with fewer than 10 employees.

Project duration

November 2021 – September 2022

Project partner

Consulting process

Here you can find all project results! (only available in German)