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RADIC Team continues to promote and support the use of digital solutions as part of rehabilitation work in East Africa

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Kaisa Jokinen
RADIC team in a group picture

The first year of RADIC project is behind us and RADIC team continues to collaborate for the benefit of current and future rehabilitation professionals, and of course, for the benefit of those in need of rehabilitation services. Especially spring 2024 has been busy time for the RADIC team members, as first of our work packages came to an end (Digital Rehabilitation Innovation Community) and last of our implementation work package (Curricula in Digital Rehabilitation) properly started. However, we kept busy also during the autumn 2023, preparing a literature review for the Landscape Analysis, conducting Needs Assessment survey, writing the chapters for the Handbook of Digital Rehabilitation, and starting our work in creating the Framework for Digital Rehabilitation Competences. 

During the semester of 2023-2024 we had two mobilities, first focusing on the start of creating the Handbook and the second focusing on the start of the Carpe Diem process aiming to renew the curricula of AU partner HEIs to support the application of digital rehabilitation. First of the mobilities was hosted by the coordinator, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, in Jyväskylä (Finland) and the second was hosted by the State University of Zanzibar, in Zanzibar (Tanzania).

RADIC team Zanzibar in a group picture

RADIC Team Zanzibar

RADIC Team is proud to share with You the materials we have created during the spring. Visit the Materials-section to find:

  • the Needs Assessment Report describing the views of the working life professionals from East Africa on the topic of required competences for digital rehabilitation and challenges they are facing regarding applying digital solutions in their work,
  • the Landscape Analysis describing the current situation of digital rehabilitation and digital competences in the field of rehabilitation in East Africa (especially Kenya, Rwanda & Tanzania),
  • the Framework for Digital Rehabilitation Competences in East Africa (FDRC-East Africa) presenting competences which should be considered when designing and implementing modern rehabilitation curricula in East Africa.

Additionally, in the Handbook-section, you will find the Handbook of Digital Rehabilitation in Health Care for East African countries. It is available as online version and printable pdf, currently in English, but stay tuned for the version in Swahili.

Finally, save the date for RADIC online mid-conference on the 19th of September 2024. We invite you cordially to join us! More information will be available later this summer on this website and our social media accounts.

More information on RADIC project website!