Digital literacy enables up-to-date sleep medicine in inclusive healthcare

<< Objectives >>Project dSleep_eHealth will transform 3 European universities into drivers of social innovations in the field of digital healthcare and digital sleep medicine. Students will engage in the co-design of social innovation interventions with the elderly population, a vulnerable group that is lagging behind in benefiting from the rapid development of digital medicine. For this, we need to increase the digital literacy of the vulnerable group to achieve true co-creation of social innovation.<< Implementation >>Project partners will co-design, pilot, assess, and disseminate innovative higher education training programs in inclusive digital healthcare focused on digital solutions in sleep medicine for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. Together with students, we will design digital literacy content to support the wider community. Teacher training in open pedagogy, design thinking, and fostering social innovation will boost the competencies of staff at partner universities.<< Results >>We will create a new curriculum and open educational resources on digital sleep medicine incorporating the latest research data. Next, we will create Social Innovation Toolkit for Digital Sleep Medicine that will be a step-by-step guide to support the transformation of higher education into drivers of social innovation. Finally, we will pilot an inter-university interdisciplinary social innovation incubator on digital health for sleep medicine focused on supporting vulnerable societal groups.