The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is inte... more The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is intended to be an active toolkit to support the use of Design Thinking as a method to: - Renew their educational approaches and methodologies; - Update and learn how to redesign learning experiences; - Promote the acquisition of “new skills”, such as sense making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross cultural competences, trans-disciplinarily, a design mindset and virtual collaboration — that nowadays are sought by employers and organisations. The toolkit has been developed as part of the project “D-THINK - Design Thinking Applied to Education and Training” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Strategic Partnerships, Cooperation and Innovation and the exchange of Good Practices.
The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is inte... more The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is intended to be an active toolkit to support the use of Design Thinking as a method to: - Renew their educational approaches and methodologies; - Update and learn how to redesign learning experiences; - Promote the acquisition of “new skills”, such as sense making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross cultural competences, trans-disciplinarily, a design mindset and virtual collaboration — that nowadays are sought by employers and organisations. The toolkit has been developed as part of the project “D-THINK - Design Thinking Applied to Education and Training” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Strategic Partnerships, Cooperation and Innovation and the exchange of Good Practices.
During the last H1N1 pandemic has emerged the importance of crisis communication as an essential ... more During the last H1N1 pandemic has emerged the importance of crisis communication as an essential part of health crisis management. The Project aims specifically to improve the understanding of crisis communication dynamics and effective tools and to allow public health institutions to communicate better with the public during health emergencies. THE PROJECT WILL PERFORM DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES: i) state of the art review; ii) identification of key stakeholders; iii) communicational analysis performed using data collected on stakeholder communication activities and their outcomes considering the lessons learnt from the analysis of the reasons for differing public reactions during pandemics; iv) improvement of the existing guidelines; v) development of Web 2.0 tools as web-platform and feed service and implementation of impact assessment algorithms; vi) organization of exercises and training on this issues. In the context of health security policies at an EU level, the project aims to fi...
The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is inte... more The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is intended to be an active toolkit to support the use of Design Thinking as a method to: - Renew their educational approaches and methodologies; - Update and learn how to redesign learning experiences; - Promote the acquisition of “new skills”, such as sense making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross cultural competences, trans-disciplinarily, a design mindset and virtual collaboration — that nowadays are sought by employers and organisations. The toolkit has been developed as part of the project “D-THINK - Design Thinking Applied to Education and Training” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Strategic Partnerships, Cooperation and Innovation and the exchange of Good Practices.
The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is inte... more The D-THINK toolkit is aimed at educators from Higher Education and VET Institutions, and is intended to be an active toolkit to support the use of Design Thinking as a method to: - Renew their educational approaches and methodologies; - Update and learn how to redesign learning experiences; - Promote the acquisition of “new skills”, such as sense making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross cultural competences, trans-disciplinarily, a design mindset and virtual collaboration — that nowadays are sought by employers and organisations. The toolkit has been developed as part of the project “D-THINK - Design Thinking Applied to Education and Training” co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Strategic Partnerships, Cooperation and Innovation and the exchange of Good Practices.
During the last H1N1 pandemic has emerged the importance of crisis communication as an essential ... more During the last H1N1 pandemic has emerged the importance of crisis communication as an essential part of health crisis management. The Project aims specifically to improve the understanding of crisis communication dynamics and effective tools and to allow public health institutions to communicate better with the public during health emergencies. THE PROJECT WILL PERFORM DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES: i) state of the art review; ii) identification of key stakeholders; iii) communicational analysis performed using data collected on stakeholder communication activities and their outcomes considering the lessons learnt from the analysis of the reasons for differing public reactions during pandemics; iv) improvement of the existing guidelines; v) development of Web 2.0 tools as web-platform and feed service and implementation of impact assessment algorithms; vi) organization of exercises and training on this issues. In the context of health security policies at an EU level, the project aims to fi...
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